.**Responsibilities**:**Quality and Food Safety Manager, for our Guadalajara Facilities**The Quality and Food Safety Manager is accountable for ensuring that the plant follows and adheres to quality protocols and produces the highest quality product. You will be responsible for leading Quality Technicians and developing a team of Quality Supervisors. Responsibilities include cost efficiency, and continuous improvement of processes, service, and safety for an entire business unit across all shifts. The Quality Control Manager works with production, maintenance, and warehouse teams across the plant by communicating quality procedures and developing long-term sustainable practices to maintain the superior quality process.Major Tasks, Accountabilities and Key Responsibilities:- Deliver effective change leadership while driving business changes and minimizing people impact- Communicate and collaborate cross-functionally to assist team to solve operational issues- Builds people capability through effective employee relations, hiring, training, and communication for front-line hourly and salaried personnel- Motivate team members to achieve plan goals- Identify and lead efforts of product/process quality and cost management opportunities to achieve productivity gains- Lead the plant QM Pillar through the TPM journey- Lead and develop action plans with production, engineering, and division Quality Assurance to improve the product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs and ensure that they are appropriate and meet system capability and key consumer requirements.- Provide forward-thinking insights for future business improvements.- Serve as a key statistical resource. Verify product and process improvements through the implementation and analysis of statistically designed experiments and capability studies.- Lead quality control compliance QAS audit and military audits- Assist in food safety compliance audits such as but not limited to FSSC 22000, AIB and FDA- Lead quality control and food safety compliance audits in the absence of Food Safety Manager- Ensure all sanitation is complete and properly meets quality standards- Design and implement programs to monitor calibration and accuracy of all analytical procedures and equipment in the plant.- Ensure compliance to the OSHA chemical hygiene plan and proper laboratory safety practices by involving all employees in an effective safety program; provide training, periodic review of hazards, and timely correction of hazardous situations.- Lead the interpretation of in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, recommend actions for improvements, and assure resolution. Challenge results and drive improvements. Coach others in the interpretation of results.- Lead risk assessment analysis throughout the plant. Manage issues with non-conforming product to assure proper control, minimize loses, and provide analysis to drive the elimination of future occurrences