Quality Manager

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Job Title: Quality Manager
Location: Mason City, IA, Midwest United States, USA

Company: Land O Lakes
Industry Sector: Agribusiness
Industry Type: Input Retail, Cooperative and Related Crop Services
Job Type: Full Time

Job Description: As stated in the Land O'Lakes Job Posting policy, all employees who post for an internal opening must inform their current manager at the time they apply.

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Quality Manager

The Quality Manager will lead in managing, enforcing, and implementing all our quality programs within a premix manufacturing plant primarily for the premix and finished feed in the livestock industries. This role is responsible for ensuring safe animal feed is produced in a manufacturing environment that blends highly concentrated vitamin, trace mineral and medicated products for livestock and pet premixes. You will report directly to the Sr. Quality Manager.

Experience and Education Required:
Bachelor's degree

3-5 years of progressive quality assurance experience in feed, food, or related fields of operation.

Previous supervisory / regulatory experience

PCQI and/or HACCP certified

Experience working with 3rd party quality management systems such as SQF, FAMI-QS, SFSF, etc.

Competencies & Other Skills:
Knowledge of regulatory requirements to include HACCP, Animal Feed Safety Plans, GMP's.

Strong communication/interpersonal/training/coaching skills.

Ability to present independently or while collaborating with team members.

High attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to multitask and adapt to quickly changing priorities across multiple projects.

Strong writing, analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills.

Analytical problem solving/root cause analysis.

Ability to be tactical, insightful and act strategically.

Ability to handle customer complaints.

Experience leading plant employees toward an improved food safe culture.

Proficient with the Microsoft Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, Power BI).

% of Total Job Duty or Area of Responsibility
50%
To ensure product safety and quality systems implementation, training, assessment, and compliance.

Lead the facility Quality Incident Management Team by conducting root cause and corrective/preventive action analysis of customer complaints and internal issues related to manufacturing errors.

Creating, updating, and implementing standard operating procedures (SOPs).

Proactively manage and resolve product safety and regulatory issues in collaboration with the corporate quality team.

Provide targeted follow-up on claims and complaints.

Developing and overseeing internal and/or regulatory compliance of the sampling and testing program for raw materials, medicated and non-medicated finished goods to ensure product specifications are met.

Develop and lead the Management of Change (MOC) process for the facility.

30%
Develop a working knowledge of premix quality control, systems, processes, and procedures as related to plant manufacturing.

Act as a champion for product safety/quality; monitor and repost on trends alerting the Director and/or Sr. Quality Mgr.

Train, implement, and enforce customer-specific quality requirements - primarily relating, but not limited to, toll milling contracts.

10%
Lead assigned projects in critical process monitoring and capability; working with operations across the enterprise to establish new product/process measurements and preventive control at the source.

10%
Tracks and drives quality related issues to completion.

Completes internal audits/self-assessments and works with the Director and/or Sr. Quality Mgr. to resolve issues.

Quality point of contact for regulatory and/or customer audits.

Salary: $79,200 - $118,800
1st shift

Grade:

E9

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Job Post Date: 06/03/25