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About Kerry

Kerry is one of the world's leading taste and nutrition companies for the food, beverage and pharmaceutical industries and we are hiring a Quality Manager to support our growing business in Byesville, OH. In this role, you will ensure all manufactured products at the Kerry plant comply with quality, food safety, customer and regulatory requirements through lab test and validation schemes. Implement and monitor GMP, food safety and GFSI requirements across entire site.

About the role

Key Responsibilities

•  HACCP and Food safety site lead, providing guidelines and support for all operations team in aspects like verification and yearly validation of HACCP/ Food Safety plans and prerequisite programs.

•  Ensure that all food safety management systems based on GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) certification are in accordance with the requirements of the current standard.

•  Responsible for participating in new product meetings (NPI) ensuring the execution of risk assessment for food safety based on HACCP and customer requirements.

•  Facilitate GFSI, customer, FDA, and internal audits related to the area of quality and food safety.

•  Administer the sanitation team to ensure that sanitation risks are reduced.

•  Manage environmental monitoring program.

•  Develop training based on the risks raised in HACCP with a focus on risk prevention.

•  Ensure the implementation of corporate food safety programs.

•  Ensure that all action plans are managed, and generate risk analysis based on the risk map. Manage action plans based on CAPA, using Intelex portal for root cause analysis.

•  Conduct risk assessments systematically to avoid deviations that may affect the performance of the plant and our customers.

•  Responsible for overseeing third party companies, service providers such as Pest control, chemicals, cleaning and conservation of the environment and calibration of critical equipment based on HACCP.

•  To be the focal point for good manufacturing practices, change management, preventive maintenance for food safety, foreign material program, golden 6, allergen control, food defense, etc. Ensure that all prerequisites are carried out to avoid possible risk of food safety.

•  Perform risk trend analysis and ensure that leadership levels receive all the strengths and weaknesses of the management system based on HACCP, SWAT and risk map analysis.

Key Experience

•  B.S. Degree in Microbiology, Food science, Biology, or related field.

•  Minimum 8 years of quality & food safety management experience within a manufacturing setting.

•  Experience with aseptic processing required.

•  Knowledge – certified and experience with relevant GFSI systems such as IFS, SQF, BRC and/or FSSC 22000.

•  Knowledge about allergens, microbiological topics, Kosher, HACCP, GMP´s, Quality systems and Pre-requisite programs, internal audits.

•  Knowledge with Microsoft Office & SAP required.

Qualifications and skills

The pay range for this position is $91,404 - $154,009 in Annual Salary . Kerry typically does not hire an individual at the top or near the top of the range, as we are a pay-for-performance company, and this range is set to continue to reward performance annually while in role . Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case . The specific compensation offered to a candidate within the above range may be influenced by a variety of factors including skills, qualifications, experience, and internal equity . In addition, this position is also eligible to earn a performance-based incentive compensation . Kerry offers a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, a 401(k) plan with employee and company contribution opportunities, Employee Share Plan, Life, disability, and accident insurance, and tuition reimbursement . This job posting is anticipated to expire on 11/29/2025.