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You will provide leadership across food safety, quality systems, compliance, and continuous improvement initiatives while partnering with Operations, Maintenance, Sales, Research & Development, and Regulatory teams. As a member of the plant leadership team, you will drive a culture of food safety and quality ownership throughout the facility.\nA Taste of Your Responsibilities\nLead plant food safety and quality programs to ensure compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements.\nPromote and maintain a strong food safety culture across all plant functions.\nEnsure all plant personnel follow Good Manufacturing Practices, sanitation requirements, personal hygiene standards, and food safety procedures.\nDevelop, deliver, and maintain employee training programs focused on food safety, quality systems, and annual compliance requirements.\nPartner with Operations and Maintenance teams to drive ownership of food safety and quality performance throughout the facility.\nManage direct reports and support their development through coaching, training, and performance management.\nEstablish and monitor key food safety and quality metrics, including quality incident reduction, complaint reduction, quality index performance, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nInvestigate food safety and quality issues, evaluate trends, and implement corrective and preventive actions.\nServe as the primary plant contact for regulatory agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration.\nLead compliance efforts related to Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point programs, Safe Quality Food certification, environmental monitoring, recall readiness, pest management, and finished product specifications.\nOversee customer complaint investigations and ensure timely resolution of food safety and quality concerns.\nPartner with Sales, Research & Development, Operations, and Regulatory teams to address technical, quality, and customer issues.\nSupport supplier quality activities by helping resolve vendor-related food safety and quality concerns.\nLead quality planning and support successful commercialization of new products using established company processes and validation tools.\nChampion continuous improvement initiatives and serve as the Food Safety & Quality pillar owner within the Conagra Performance System.\nIngredients Required for Your Success\nBachelor’s degree in Food Science, Biology, or a related scientific discipline.\nExperience leading food safety and quality programs in a food manufacturing environment.\n4 or more years of Quality Assurance leadership experience in food manufacturing or related industry\nKnowledge of USDA regulatory standards and experience leading quality and food safety programs in a manufacturing environment\nKnowledge of Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point programs, sanitation, environmental monitoring, and regulatory compliance requirements.\nExperience working with regulatory agencies and food industry standards.\nLeadership experience with coaching and developing team members.\nStrong communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills.\nExperience with root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement initiatives.\nKnowledge of food manufacturing operations, auditing, sanitation practices, and process controls.\nExperience managing multiple priorities and collaborating across functions.\nPhysical Requirements\nMore information about essential tasks and the facility will be shared during the hiring process. This role may require you to be in our manufacturing facilities. When visiting these sites, the physical requirements below may apply: You may be required to walk around the facility, climb stairs/ladders, kneel, or perform repetitive tasks that require hand-eye coordination. You may be required to lift or carry materials that can vary in weight and size. This is a manufacturing environment with large, moving equipment. Noise levels can be high, and temperatures may vary.\nCompensation\nPay Range:$109,000-$159,000The annual salary listed above is the expected offering for this position. An employee’s actual annual salary will be based on but not limited to: location, relevant experience/level and skillset, while balancing internal Conagra employees’ equity. Conagra Brands will comply with applicable law regarding minimum salaries for exempt employees.\nOur Benefits\nWe care about your total well-being and will support you with the following, subject to your location and role:\nHealth: Comprehensive healthcare plans, wellness incentive program, mental wellbeing support and fitness reimbursement\n\nWealth: Great pay, bonus incentive opportunity, matching 401(k) and stock purchase plan\n\nGrowth: Career development opportunities, employee resource groups, on-demand learning and tuition reimbursement\n\nBalance: Paid-time off, parental leave, flexible work-schedules (subject to your location and role) and volunteer opportunities\n\nOur Company\nAt Conagra Brands, we have a rich heritage of making great food. We aspire to have the most impactful, energized and inclusive culture in food. As a member of our 18,000+ person team across 40+ locations, you are empowered to reach your potential, make an impact and own your career. We're in the business of building champions - within our people and our iconic brands like Birds Eye®, Slim Jim® and Reddi-Wip®.\nOur focus on innovation extends beyond making great food, it also reflects our commitment to embracing new solutions that positively impact our team, the communities we serve and the health of our planet. Foodies Welcome.\nConagra Brands is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to sex, race, color, religion, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, pregnancy, leave status, disability, veteran status, genetic information and/or any other characteristic or status protected by national, federal, state or local law. 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