Location Description
The Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania facility proudly produces iconic pet food brands like 9Lives®, Gravy Train®, and Kibbles 'n Bits®. This location also features an on-site Distribution Center, ensuring efficient delivery of products to customers.
Bloomsburg is home to Bloomsburg University, a municipal airport, and a landmark Town Park offering acres of recreational activities. The town also hosts one of the largest and longest-running fairs in the country. With so much to do and see, Bloomsburg is a great place to live, work, and play!
Responsibilities
Lead quality and food safety at our Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania pet food manufacturing plant. As QFS Manager, you will own the site quality and food safety program, translate standards into practical plant routines, and partner with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and Sanitation to protect consumers, customers, and our brands.
You will guide a multi-shift QFS organization in a 24/7 operation, oversee plant quality metrics, and strengthen systems for environmental monitoring, sanitation, product holds, audit readiness, corrective actions, records, and standard operating procedures.
Key Responsibilities
• Lead the plant quality and food safety program and ensure raw materials, processing parameters, sanitation practices, and finished products meet customer, company, state, and federal standards.
• Build a strong food safety culture and maintain GFSI-aligned practices, including HACCP and food safety plans, preventive controls, prerequisite programs, GMPs, PCQI responsibilities, and BRC requirements.
• Own plant QFS performance, including right-first-time results, product holds, environmental monitoring, finished-product positives, consumer complaints, and major nonconformances; turn data into clear action plans and business updates.
• Lead, coach, and develop Quality and Food Safety supervisors, leads, technicians, sanitation team members, and other plant QFS staff across shifts.
• Direct environmental monitoring and sanitation programs, including SSOP effectiveness and verification of cleaning methods that control microbial, allergen, organic product, and cross-contamination risks.
• Administer product holds and dispositions, coordinate release or removal through the proper channels, and support rapid retrieval of suspect product during a recall.
• Prepare for and lead customer, regulatory, and certification audits and inspections; drive timely root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, documentation, and follow-through.
• Partner with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, and contractors to identify and implement quality improvements and ensure facility or equipment work supports food safety and GMP practices.
• Train employees on GMPs, sanitation, preventive controls, metal detection, noncompliance, color coding, net weight, and quality requirements; develop training content when needed.
• Investigate consumer and customer complaints, approve temporary deviations and R&D trials, address vendor noncompliance, and communicate findings in clear written reports.
Why You'll Love This Role
• Make a visible impact on the safety, quality, and consistency of pet food produced at a high-volume manufacturing site.
• Influence daily plant decisions through close partnership with site leadership and lead the response when quality and production priorities intersect.
• Develop a broad team across quality and sanitation while strengthening coaching, accountability, and technical capability.
• Build experience in a growing area of Post Consumer Brands with exposure to a diverse network of manufacturing plants and future development opportunities.
Location & Travel Requirements
• This is an on-site role at the Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania pet food manufacturing facility.
Qualifications
Education
• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or a related field.
Required Qualifications
• 10 or more years of experience in food manufacturing, preferably within Quality Assurance or Production.
• 3 or more years of supervisory experience, including experience leading and coaching teams in a manufacturing environment.
• Current HACCP certification and the ability to fulfill PCQI and BRC practitioner responsibilities.
• Working knowledge of HACCP, FSMA requirements, GMPs, food safety and quality systems, and FDA and local regulatory requirements.
• Experience managing audits, environmental monitoring, corrective actions, product holds, quality documentation, and regulatory or customer inspections.
• Ability to read, write, and communicate effectively in English.
Preferred Qualifications
• Quality leadership experience in pet food manufacturing, especially dry or extruded food production.
• Experience leading sanitation programs and strengthening SSOPs.
• Experience with canning or thermal processes.
• Experience working in a union manufacturing environment.
Success in This Role
• Leads from the floor, builds trust across shifts, and coaches team members with clear expectations and consistent follow-through.
• Uses data, statistical methods, and advanced problem-solving tools to identify root causes and implement sustainable solutions.
• Communicates technical and regulatory information clearly in writing, in meetings, and during training.
• Balances urgency and sound judgment during incidents, product holds, audit findings, and regulatory visits.
• Collaborates effectively with Operations, Engineering, Maintenance, Sanitation, site leadership, vendors, customers, and regulators.
Ready to Make an Impact?
Bring your quality leadership, food safety expertise, and commitment to people development to a role where your work will be visible every day. Apply to help strengthen QFS performance and build the systems and culture that keep our products, consumers, and brands safe.
