FSQ Manager RTE Manager

Responsibilities

• Real-Time Food Safety Authority
• Make final decisions on: Product release / hold
• Line startup approval
• Production shutdowns
• Lead escalation and response to: Deviations
• Sanitation failures
• Environmental risks
• Hygienic Zoning Design & Enforcement
• Define and enforce: RAW → RTE separation
• Personnel and material flow
• Controlled entry/exit points
• Audit zoning behavior daily: Boot wash compliance
• Tool segregation
• Eliminate all cross-contamination pathways
• Sanitation Standards & Validation
• Define sanitation expectations: 7-step cleaning system
• Validate cleaning effectiveness through: Direct observation
• ATP and micro results
• Reject sanitation that does not meet standard
• Pre-Operational Control
• Own pre-op verification standards
• Audit high-risk equipment and repeat issue areas
• Ensure no production begins under unsafe conditions
• Environmental Monitoring & Pathogen Control
• Partner with Micro Lab Manager to: Interpret trends
• Identify harborage points
• Lead response to Listeria risks
• Eliminate repeat contamination zones
• High-Risk Vector Control
• Define and enforce controls for: Drains
• Condensation
• Equipment niches
• Enforce drain segregation and no-spray policies
• Floor Leadership & Enforcement
• Maintain strong floor presence
• Correct GMP violations immediately
• Hold operations, sanitation, and maintenance accountable
• Ensure the RTE process is scientifically sound, controlled, and safe
• What They Own
• Process & Food Safety Authority (Highest Risk Area)
• Kill step (smokehouse lethality)
• Cooling, drying, post-lethality handling
• RTE contamination prevention (Listeria risk)
• Process Validation
• Thermal validation
• Challenge studies
• Scientific basis of controls
• 8+ years in food safety/QA leadership
• RTE food experience (strongly required)
• Deep expertise in: HACCP, FSMA, GMPs
• Hygienic zoning
• Sanitation systems
• Proven ability to: Enforce standards
• Make high-pressure decisions
• KPIs
• RTE environmental positive rate
• Pre-op pass rate and repeat issues
• Zoning/GMP compliance
• Food safety incidents
• Audit performance
• PHYSICAL DEMANDS :
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to be successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• WORK ENVIRONMENT :
• Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
• E-Verify
• Jack Link's provides the Social Security Administration (SSA) and, if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with information from each new Team Member's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization. IMPORTANT: If the Government cannot confirm that you are au

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Additional Information

The FSQ RTE Manager (Technical Authority) is the single point of authority for food safety within all Ready-to-Eat (RTE) production and packaging operations . This role is responsible for ensuring that no contamination pathway exists between environmental, personnel, or process risks and finished product . The position operates as a real-time risk controller , making immediate decisions on product safety, production continuation, and release. In this structure: Sanitation executes cleaning (Plant Manager) FSQ RTE defines standards and approves effectiveness This role is accountable for closing the gap between: 👉 what should happen vs. what actually happens on the floor.

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