Little Caesars Pizza

Manager, Quality Assurance - Bakery

Little Caesars Pizza  •  United States (Onsite)  •  2 days ago
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Job Description

Build a Bigger, Better, Bolder Future

Imagine working for a company that measures its success based off the growth of its colleagues, a company that invests in its future by investing in you. Little Caesars is a company where our colleagues make an impact.

Your Mission:

In this role, you will lead and manage the quality assurance programs, policies and initiatives for company products. Responsible for developing inspection, testing and quality control procedures, design of quality training programs, investigation of customer complaint issues and facilitation of quality audits.

How You'll Make an Impact:

  • Create and implement updated policies, procedures and programs that ensure product safety and quality, including updating product specifications and issue changes.

  • Identifies and resolves supplier food safety and quality issues.

  • Provides technical support and acts in a liaison role with the quality control function to develop and ensure controls are developed, executed and maintained.

  • Manages critical food lines and implements new laboratory procedures and instrumentation and assist the International department with manufacturing and problem resolution.

  • Communicates with staff, other departments and suppliers with product specifications and program changes as appropriate.

  • Responsible for direct involvement in corporate product recalls and retrievals if required and maintains appropriate documentation. Administers mock recalls to distribution centers.

  • Coordinates samples from distribution centers, sanitation audits and lab testing.

  • Assists leadership in policy creation for vendors, vendor evaluation and audits

  • Maintains approved manufacturer list for regional vendors.

  • Performs other duties as requested by Supervisor.

Who You Are:

  • Bachelor’s degree in food science, Biology, Chemistry or related discipline.

  • Minimum of five (5) years quality assurance experience in the food industry and a total of seven (7) years total quality assurance experience.

  • Knowledge of the food industry manufacturing practices and familiar governmental regulations. (Exclusively for Domestic: including OSHA lab standards and Good Manufacturing Practices as defined by the FDA.)

  • Ability to communicate effectively with franchisees, vendors and other departments, often communicating complex technical data to a variety of audiences.

  • Evidence of the ability to establish, document, update and track quality metrics, preferable through standardized and accepted process control procedures.

  • Experience in a previous position requiring accuracy, attention to detail and documentation of issues, resolutions and policy changes.

  • Excellent problem-solving and decision-making skills. Good interpersonal skills and ability to resolve conflicting points of view.

  • Demonstrated ability to manage multiple, complex projects and initiatives simultaneously with a results-oriented approach.

  • Computer proficiency (Microsoft Office, database, Internet and documentation software required.

  • Sensory abilities for product evaluation.

  • Ability to travel up to 30% of the time and to adhere to the company corporate travel policy.


Preferred Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

  • HACCP certification and foodservice sanitation certification.

  • Experience with lab analysis and testing on products used in the pizza business.


Where You'll Work:

  • A state-of-the-art building with a modern-day, open environment in the heart of The District Detroit.

  • A colleague fitness center, work café and an outdoor patio with grills.

  • Over 60 different meeting spaces to help promote a collaborative environment.

All items listed above are illustrative and not comprehensive. They are not contractual in nature and are subject to change at the discretion of Little Caesars Enterprises Inc.


Little Caesar Enterprises, Inc. is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to that individual’s race, color, religion or creed, national origin or ancestry, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, genetic information, ethnicity, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.
The Company will strive to provide reasonable accommodations to permit qualified applicants who have a need for an accommodation to participate in the hiring process (e.g., accommodations for a job interview) if so requested.
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Little Caesars Pizza

About Little Caesars Pizza

ABOUT LITTLE CAESARS®

Little Caesars, the Best Value in Pizza*, was founded by Mike and Marian Ilitch as a single, family-owned restaurant in 1959 and is headquartered in downtown Detroit, Michigan. It is the third-largest pizza chain in the world, with restaurants in each of the 50 U.S. states and 29 countries and territories.

Known for its HOT-N-READY® pizza, Crazy Puffs®, and famed Crazy Bread®, Little Caesars uses quality ingredients, like fresh, never-frozen mozzarella and Muenster cheese and sauce made from fresh-packed, vine-ripened California crushed tomatoes. The brand is known for innovation and is home to the exclusive Pizza Portal® pickup, a heated, self-service mobile order pickup station. Little Caesars is also the Official Pizza Sponsor of the NFL.

A high-growth company with over 65 years in the $150 billion worldwide pizza industry, Little Caesars continually looks for franchisee candidates to join the team in markets worldwide. In addition to providing the opportunity for entrepreneurial independence in a franchise system, Little Caesars offers a simple operating system, a reputation for taste and value, and strong brand awareness with one of the most recognized characters in the country, Little Caesar. Little Caesars is proud to be part of the Ilitch Companies family of businesses.

For more, visit LittleCaesars.com and follow Little Caesars on TikTok, Instagram, and X.

*Limited to top 4 national pizza chains

Industry
Food & Beverage
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
Detroit, MI
Year Founded
1959
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