Quality & Food Safety Manager - Ashburn, GA

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Job Title: Quality & Food Safety Manager - Ashburn, GA
Location: Ashburn, GA, South United States, USA

Company: Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM)
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Career Type: Medical/Health/Safety
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: Job Description

Quality & Food Safety Manager - Ashburn, GA

ADM - Golden Peanut

This is full-time, exempt position.

Summary:

The Quality and Food Safety Manager is responsible for managing the site quality and food safety program for our Ashburn, GA peanut processing facility.

This position reports to the Plant Manager with a dotted line reporting to Regional Quality and Food Safety Manager

Essential Job Functions

Provides leadership, support, and guidance to ensure that Food Safety/Quality requirements are met.
Manages, plans, implements, and continuously improves the Food Safety/Quality divisional programs.
Enforce Quality goals and KPIs, Food Safety/Quality, maintain Food Safety plan, and supports Operations for continuous improvement.
Ensure the processes and systems are adequate to implement, achieve, and maintain 3rd party certifications (BRC) and FDA compliance (21 CFR 507 and/or 21 CFR 117).
Oversee usage of and provide support for information technology systems.
Manages the Food Safety/Quality Team
Conduct quality and food safety training for all colleagues onsite.
Maintenance and maintaining of the quality control, sizing and sorting equipment.
Work and communicate with the Regional QFS Manager (dotted line reporting), Plant Manager and Superintendent on any quality problems, or issues that arise.
Excellent communication, problem solving, and good decision making skills are required.
The ability to provide motivation to direct reports, and demonstrate leadership qualities to all plant personnel is needed.

Job Qualifications

Commitment to ADM's goal of achieving a zero-injury culture.
Commitment to ADM's core values of: Integrity, Respect, Inclusivity, Collaboration and Ownership Mentality.
Positive leadership attributes that help drive people development, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Active participation in and contribution to performance excellence implementation.
Preferred 4 year degree or equivalent 7 year Food Safety experience in a Food manufacturing and laboratory environment

Preferred Qualifications

Excellent written and verbal communication skills a must. Ability to communicate and interact with all levels of the organization, including senior management, customers, and regulatory officials as needed.
Must demonstrate high-level of problem-solving skills and ability to perform root cause analysis.
Previous experience with third party or regulatory audits and inspections
Able to work unsupervised and manage independently/flexible schedule occasionally.
Able to climb and work in elevated work areas.

Relocation Assistance is available for this position.

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Job Post Date: 08/10/25