Director of Food Safety and Quality Systems
Shamrock Foods · Verona, VA
- Level
- Director+
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Experience asked
- 10+ years
- Industry
- Industrial
- Posted
- 4 days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A director-level quality role at Shamrock Foods (industrial) in Verona, VA. (S)he will work with division quality leaders to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure continued compliance with all regulatory, FSMA, PMO, CFR, SQF Certification, third-party and customer requirements while working with cross.
- They ask for
- 10+ years · degree required
- Tools it names
- Lean, FDA / GMP
- Day to day
- some off-shift / weekend coverage
Read from the posting. The full description is below.
From the plant jobs report · week of October 19, 2026
Quality Engineer roles in Virginia: typical posted base $87k–$118k.
Median of the low and high ends of 8 live postings that list pay, out of 15 quality engineer openings in Virginia, read from manufacturers' own careers sites.
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How this role compares
Against 14 other live quality postings in Virginia.
- Base pay
- Not listed in this posting
- Experience asked
- More than usual (10+ vs 6+)
Typical $76k–$114k, from 7 postings that list pay.
Similar roles usually ask 6+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- Root cause 67%
- ✓ Lean 53%
- FMEA 40%
- ISO 9001 40%
- Six Sigma 40%
- SPC 33%
✓ = this posting asks for it too. % = share of similar postings that mention it.
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Full description from Shamrock FoodsAs posted on their careers site.ShowHide
requirements
while working with cross departmental operational groups in the development of process improvement and lean manufacturing initiatives.
Essential Duties
- ◆Develop Food Safety Plan by conducting and documenting facility hazard evaluation/analysis, developing and implementing preventive controls, and verifying plan effectiveness against FSMA
requirements
- ✓Maintain GMP
requirements
to current good manufacturing practices (cGMPs)
- ✓Remain current and serve as division SME on all mandated food safety regulations, laws, policies and procedures of the FDA & USDA as mandated by the PMO, CFR & FSMA.
- ✓Ensure that all Shamrock divisions are audit ready and serve as the co-host of regulatory inspections.
- ✓Serve as multi-facility SQF Practitioner developing and validating SQF program procedures and policies (QA Managers are also required to be SQF practitioners).
- ✓Drives simplification and standardization of audit process and execution across Shamrock Enterprise to ensure compliance with new and emerging regulatory standards and
requirements
- ✓Coordinate all regulatory, customer, and third-party audits
- ✓Visit and confer with representatives of ingredient and packaging suppliers to obtain information related to vendor quality standards. Ensure vendor management program includes quality and food safety review for all materials.
- ✓Work with R&D in the development of new product formulations and label compliance review.
- ✓Establish and maintain enterprise quality management systems, policies and procedures that enable Shamrock to comply with regulatory
requirements
and current regulatory expectations.
- ✓Develop and maintain FSQA training for Shamrock Foods Company. (Set annual training
requirements
and training frequencies)
- ✓Develop and maintain Shamrock vendor management program and policies, including auditing, performance monitoring and inspection readiness programs.
- ✓Interface directly with division QA leaders to assure cross functional alignment of goals and objectives ensuring compliance and realization systems related best practices.
- ✓Partner with IT/IS to develop and integrate a QMS roadmap that allows for scaling of systems to ensure continued compliance and growth of our business.
- ✓Act as an expert resource and provide expertise, support, and guidance to internal and external partners in resolving complex food safety and product quality challenges and solutions for potential compliance risks.
- ✓Participate in a monthly Quality Management Review meeting (QMR) to review specific set of quality and compliance metrics to state of control and drive targeted actions for continuous improvement.
- ✓Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
- ✓Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or related field required. Master’s degree preferred.
- ✓10+ years of experience in food safety & quality assurance
- ✓3+ years of direct management experience
- ✓Working knowledge of regulatory compliance with USDA, FDA, CFR, PMO and implementing and managing third-party auditing schemes (GFSI, SQF).
- ✓Demonstrated expertise in Dairy, meat, seafood and edible oils manufacturing and processing including UHT manufacturing.
- ✓Ability to review regulatory
and evaluate compliance, and experience with regulatory inspections
- ✓20% plus travel required.
- ✓Must be flexible and willing to work the demands of the department which may be subject to evenings, weekends and holidays.
Pay for the role is weighted on several factors and base salary is expected to start $130-170K with annual bonus potential.
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The Director of Food Safety & Quality systems directs and continually develop, enhance and maintain enterprise food safety and quality programs including FSMA, HACCP, SQF, and GMP. (S)he will work with division quality leaders to develop and implement policies and procedures to ensure continued compliance with all regulatory, FSMA, PMO, CFR, SQF Certification, third-party and customer
Corporate Summary
At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first – our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.
Our Mission
At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family’s motto to “treat associates like family and customers like friends.”
Why work for us?
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