Manager, Quality Assurance at Chomps

Who We Are

We’re Chomps, the fastest-growing snack brand in the U.S. and we’re reimagining snacking. Our meat snacks are made using high-quality proteins, no sugar, and real ingredients – because we believe snacking should be simple, delicious, and convenient. Chomps can be found in over 30,000 stores nationwide with a strong e-commerce presence. Our mission is to inspire, educate, and fuel our community with accessible, real food that doesn’t compromise on taste.

Traits of a Chompian

If you’ve been called scrappy, resourceful, and persistent, then you might just be a Chompian. You’re a team player who’s self-motivated and action-oriented. You’re committed to delivering efficiency and accuracy, and you happen to be great at proactive cross-functional communication. You’re a critical thinker and a natural problem solver who enjoys details, research, and data. You take initiative and complete ownership of everything you do, and you’ll go the extra mile for your team, consumers, and audience. You’re hungry to learn with a passion to grow and improve every day. You also take a keen interest in health, fitness, and nutrition. Sound like you? Then we want to meat you.

What You Will Do

In this role, you will assume a crucial position in upholding the quality and food safety standards of Chomps products. Your primary responsibilities will include providing FSQA guidance and resources across our manufacturing facilities, fostering positive relationships, addressing product food safety and quality concerns while driving continuous improvement efforts, managing recall and product traceability procedures, leading FSQA initiatives, and approving all RCA and CAPA reports. Your leadership will be essential in maintaining the high standards defined by Chomps FSQA team. We are looking for a candidate with exceptional attention to detail, superb organizational abilities, and a deep understanding of the meat manufacturing industry. Join us in our commitment to excellence and ensuring the safety and quality of Chomps products for our customers.

Responsibilities

Contract Manufacturers and Warehousing QA Oversite

Build and maintain strong, positive relationships with third-party QA partners. Promote teamwork and collaboration in quality improvement efforts.
Conduct routine visits to regionally assigned contract manufacturing plants.
Participate in routine risk assessments and gap audits as needed.
Lead weekly meetings between manufacturing partners and Chomps teams.
Participate in Quarterly Business Review with manufacturing partners leadership providing FSQA overview.
Ensure compliance with Chomps Food Safety and Quality standards, USDA-FSIS regulations, and internal company policies.
Routinely evaluate product from assigned facilities for sensory compliance.
Analyze sensory evaluation dashboards and reporting – share data with all manufacturers to be reviewed in weekly meetings and offer guidance in process/product improvement initiatives.

Management of Chomps Quality and Food Safety Systems

Work alongside FSQA Leadership on risk assessment to onboard vendors including contract manufacturers, warehouses/repack sites, and ingredient suppliers.
Aid in the reassessment of Chomps' Food Safety and Quality standards and ensure adherence to these standards.
Stay current with industry trends and USDA-FSIS regulations to continuously improve and update existing programs.

Cross Functional Team Support

Collaborate with R&D and Manufacturing teams to support qualification of new manufacturing, warehousing partners and ingredient suppliers.
Support trials, ingredient sampling, first production runs, and continuous improvement initiatives at manufacturing, repacking, and warehouse facilities in partnership with R&D and Operations teams.
Work with R&D and Manufacturing teams in the creation of process control and product specification sheets.
Communicate USDA label approvals for new products, artwork changes, and new protein suppliers.
Provide trending data to Operations Team including but not limited to quality, consumer complaints, holds, sensory evaluations, etc.

Incident Management

Lead or support food safety and quality investigations alongside Chomps Manufacturing and R&D Teams for quality-related issues at co-manufacturers to ensure RCA and CAPA are thorough, data-driven, and coherent.
Lead execution of mock recall exercises with contract manufacturing and warehousing partners to verify the traceability of products.
Perform annual internal product traceability audits to verify the accuracy and effectiveness of Chomps traceability systems spanning from the purchase of raw proteins to manufacturing, repack, distribution, and customer delivery for continuous improvement opportunities.

Who You Are

Minimum of 5+ years of progressive leadership experience in food safety and quality assurance management within FSIS inspected processing facilities.
In-depth experience managing HACCP, USDA-FSIS and GFSI standards.
Proficiency in meat and poultry manufacturing, spanning raw processing through ready-to-eat production.
Strong FSQA background, including but not limited to HACCP, sanitation, pre-operational inspection programs, environmental monitoring programs, foreign material detection and GFSI audit compliance requirements.
Proven ability to assess and manage process flow, risk mitigation strategies, and shelf-life programs.
Strong/advanced experience with RCA, analyzing CAPA, and Quality Management Systems.
Self-motivated, autonomous, and able to manage priorities independently.
Positive attitude, adaptable to change.
Ability to travel up to 50% to Missouri based manufacturing facilities with occasional travel to other manufacturing and warehouse operations within the Midwest.
Bachelor's degree in food science, microbiology, or related field preferred.

Position: Manager, Quality Assurance

Reports to: VP, FSQA

Location: Remote + Travel in Missouri and Midwest region

Type: Full-Time, exempt

Salary Range Opportunity:

The salary range for this role is $115,000 - $120,000 + 20% annual bonus

Compensation Philosophy & Total Comp:

Our salary ranges are based on verified market data and our philosophy of paying competitively for our size and industry
Individual pay rate decisions are based on several factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, skillset, and balancing internal equity relative to peers at the company
In addition to base salary, full-time team members receive medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401K 6% match, and monthly reimbursements for wellness and home office.

Other Perks:

Ability to make an impact: Join a rapidly growing and entrepreneurial-spirited team at a pivotal point to positively impact the food industry.
Opportunities to grow: Advance within Chomps quickly based on outstanding performance.
Unlimited PTO and 11+ paid holiday days. Hybrid & flexible remote schedule. Chicago office open to those in the area.
Paid maternity and paternity leave.
Bi-annual total team in-person activities.
Company-wide Continual Education budget.
Unlimited snacks: Enough meat sticks that if you wanted to eat your body weight in them you could (no judgment here).

Our Commitment

Chomps is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. To achieve our mission of making nutritious food more accessible we greatly benefit from a range of perspectives, which comes from diversity of all types, at all levels of the organization. Achieving true diversity and inclusion is the right thing to do and the smart thing for our business.

We're aware of the research showing that historically underrepresented groups are less likely to apply for a job if they don't believe that they meet all of the criteria. Do you hesitate to submit an application because you believe you need to check every box? Please apply anyway with a thoughtful cover letter! We would love to hear from you to discuss how you can help us build a great team at Chomps.

You must reside in the United States to be considered for this position. Chomps does not provide employment-based visa sponsorship at this time. Candidates must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Important Notice:

It has come to our attention that fraudsters have been posing as Chomps employees or recruiters and contacting job-seeking candidates regarding potential job opportunities. These fraudulent messages sometimes include a request for payment and confidential personal information. Please note that the Chomps recruiting process does not include asking candidates for payments or other confidential financial information.If you are applying for a job, you can confirm the legitimacy of a job posting by viewing current open roles: https://chomps.com/pages/chomps-careers. If you have questions please email us at [email protected]

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