Blending Manager
Johnsonville
full-time
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Location Type: Office
Location: Denmark • Wisconsin • United States
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About the role
- Oversees and directs blending, formulation and seasoning activities to ensure safe and efficient preparation of raw meat/poultry blends for subsequent processing
- Also responsible for overseeing and directing some sanitation activities in the Blending and Seasoning rooms
- Complies with all safety, food safety, SQF, quality, GMP and USDA-FSIS requirements
- Communicate expected performance results and ensure pertinent production information is disseminated effectively to all shift personnel in a timely manner
- Review shift metrics with the Partners to maintain awareness of performance to standard and schedule
- Ensure ongoing compliance with all Salm Partners and USDA sanitation and food safety requirements
- Prepare performance evaluations and provide performance feedback through the review process
Requirements
- A Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Meat Science or related field is strongly preferred
- Prior leadership experience and a minimum of 3 years previous work experience in a USDA-FSIS regulated meat/poultry manufacturing environment is required
- Experience with meat blending operations or ready-to-eat processed meats manufacturing is also required
- Meat technology knowledge and ability to trouble-shoot common blend-quality issues is strongly preferred
- Experience in formulating sausage to defined fat & moisture levels is highly desirable
- Experience in incorporating water/fat-binding ingredients (e.g. soy proteins, oat fiber) and inclusions (e.g. individual quick frozen vegetables, cheese) into sausage would be extremely advantageous.
Benefits
- 401(k) with a company match
- health, dental, and vision coverage
- optional Health Savings Account (HSA)
- company-paid short-term disability and life insurance policies
- paid time off (PTO)
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Hard Skills & Tools
meat blending operationsformulating sausagetrouble-shooting blend-quality issuesincorporating water-binding ingredientsincorporating fat-binding ingredientsincorporating inclusionsfood safety complianceGMP complianceUSDA-FSIS regulationsquality assurance
Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationperformance evaluationteam managementproblem-solvingtime managementinterpersonal skillsorganizational skillsfeedback deliveryperformance monitoring