Quality Assurance Assistant Manager

Job description

Your Opportunity as the Assistant Quality Assurance Manager The Assistant Quality Assurance Manager works closely with the Quality Assurance Manager to manage site Quality and Food Safety systems, develop strategic plans, and integrate the Quality Pillar with Autonomous Maintenance (AM), Planned Maintenance (PM), and Focused Improvement (FI) pillars. This role requires strong daily interaction with operations, sanitation, maintenance, engineering, and technical teams, as well as collaboration with other site and network Quality and Food Safety leaders. The Assistant Quality Assurance Manager role at the Emporia Hostess Manufacturing Plant is a key development position designed to build the next generation of Quality leadership within J.M. Smucker. This role is intentionally structured as a phased development assignment, with a strong Food Safety & Sanitation focus during the first 18–24 months, followed by a balanced Quality Assurance and Food Safety role moving forward. This role was created to strengthen sanitation leadership, elevate quality system maturity, and intentionally build future QA leadership capability at the Emporia site. During the initial development phase, the Ass...