What is a Quality Assurance Manager?
A Quality Assurance (QA) Manager ensures the safety and quality of all processes and products within a production facility,” explains Monique Keultjes at FNA Foods Inc. FNA manufactures a natural binding system used to adhere pieces of fresh meat together. Using this method, meat, poultry, fish, seafood or a combination of the four can be bound and shaped into a desired form, ready for portioning, cooking or freezing. In establishing a total quality system, a QA manager defines a network of procedures and documentation for every step in the production process, from receipt of raw materials and ingredients to packaging and distribution. This commitment to assuring quality throughout the process is in contrast to accepted practice in the past, which relied heavily on end-product testing. What Does A Quality Assurance Manager Do? Building a framework of quality systems and procedures is the first task of a quality assurance manager, but it doesn’t stop there. “We are constantly verifying
