.**Job Summary****Essential Functions**- Show plant leadership for all quality initiatives and quality audits.- Implement and manage all safety and quality systems including HACCP, SQF, Food Safety and Quality System.- Identify opportunities for improvement, problem areas, and products that require improvement- Data collection, analysis and reporting on key product quality attributes.- Respond to customer complaints related to product quality, as well as follow them up.- Responsible for maintaining a database of traceability and customer complaints.- Supervise processes and facilities.- Plan, organize and control calibration systems and external analysis of raw material and finished product.- Follow up on corrective actions generated by internal/external audits and customer complaints.- Keep updated the lists of technical specifications of raw materials and the finished product.- Coordinate and maintain control of batches of raw materials and inputs entering the plant.- Coordinate with the production area the destination of batches of non-conforming process or finished products that were observed or rejected.- Verify compliance with the pest control program according to the SQF.- Verify daily internal control records.- Release the finished product.- Participate as a member of an internal Food Safety and Quality team for the development of the programs required by the SQF code.- Comply with applicable law.- Effectively coordinate cleaning, plant areas and operational needs.- Coordinate the scheduling of the daily, weekly and monthly cleaning of the plant.- Perform the requisition of cleaning supplies for all areas.- Manage and follow up on the labor needs of the personnel in charge.- Comply in a timely manner with the cleaning and maintenance requirements of the company.- Effectively supervise the work done by the personnel in charge.- Supervise the correct use of cleaning and somatization chemicals.- Report any unsafe conditions in equipment, building and work tools to avoid possible accidents.- Comply with and enforce the standards set by the food safety and quality management system.- Properly carry out activities related to the safety and quality of the finished product.- Comply with and enforce Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP'S).As an SQF practitioner you must:- Carry out the development and implementation of the fundamentals of Food Safety, the development of the Food Safety and Quality plan.- Verify and coordinate the prerequisite program according to SQF- Review the development, implementation and maintenance of the SQF system.- Take appropriate actions to maintain the integrity of the SQF system.- Communicate to key personnel all essential information to ensure effective implementation and maintenance of the SQF system.- Coordinate the Food Safety and Quality plans of the different production lines.- Plan, organize and control calibration systems and external analysis of raw material and finished product