Food Safety/Compliance Team Leader - Orangeburg, SC

Food Safety/Compliance Team Leader - Orangeburg, SC

Hill's Pet Nutrition is looking for a dedicated and experienced Food Safety & Compliance Quality Team Lead to join our team in Orangeburg, SC. This role is crucial in upholding our commitment to delivering safe, high-quality pet nutrition products that meet and exceed all internal, regulatory, and government standards. This position is a key part of our mission, leading the execution, maintenance, and continuous improvement of our site's food safety and regulatory compliance programs. You will work across departments to embed a strong culture of quality throughout our manufacturing operations, directly contributing to our brand's reputation and our promise to pet parents.

Responsibilities:

• Leading Food Safety & Compliance Programs: Drive the effective implementation and continuous improvement of the plant's food safety and compliance programs, including HACCP, cGMP, and FSMA. This includes ensuring robust validation and calibration practices.
• Ensuring Documentation Excellence: Manage comprehensive documentation control, ensuring all records, Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and quality system documents meet stringent internal, regulatory, and Global Quality Standards.
• Managing Audits & Inspections: Lead and coordinate all internal, customer, and external audits (e.g., FDA, USDA, AIB, State) and regulatory inspections, serving as a key point of contact.
• Overseeing Sanitation & Environmental Monitoring: Direct internal auditing activities and environmental monitoring programs (swabbing/testing), and ensure the highest level of compliance for all sanitation and cleaning programs.
• Investigating Non-Conformances: Conduct thorough investigations into all food safety, compliance, and quality non-conformance incidents, utilizing the CAPA (Corrective and Preventive Action) process to identify root causes and implement effective solutions.
• Facilitating Product & Process Changes: Play a key role in product release and validate testing and documentation for all process changes that impact product compliance and safety.
• Driving Customer Complaint Resolution: Supervise the management of customer complaints related to quality and food safety, driving effective corrective actions and site-level business improvements.
• Ensuring Regulatory Adherence for Change: Guarantee robust Management of Change (MOC) processes are followed, aligning with all regulatory requirements for the site's product portfolio.
• Delivering Quality Training: Develop and deliver engaging food safety and quality training to plant personnel, including new hires and training on new processes or equipment.
• Collaborating on Sanitary Design: Partner with the Engineering team on sanitary equipment design and introduce process improvements to enhance regulatory and food safety compliance.

Compensation and Benefits Salary Range $115,000.00 - $125,000.00 USD Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles. Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.