Paul McBride
Carrollton
Summary
Strategic, solution-oriented executive with 25 + years of success in leading food safety, quality assurance, and regulatory compliance programs for multimillion-dollar brands. Recognized for implementing compliant systems validated by successful USDA/FDA inspections and GFSI certifications. Adept at risk mitigation, cross-functional leadership, and developing high-reliability organizations across manufacturing, warehousing, and global supply chain.
Overview
14
14
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Sr. Director, FSQA
Farmer Brothers Coffee Company
10.2022 - Current
- Providing enterprise oversight of the quality and food safety system ensuring compliance to regulatory requirements, customer requirements
- Tasked with reviving sustainability activities and overseeing sustainability corporate efforts
- Establishes and leads process of end-to-end risk assessment, prioritizes opportunities and ensures adequate plans to mitigate systems are updated to ensure ongoing crisis management is adequate
- Build and maintains strong relationships across functional teams and leverages them to ensure they understand and participate in programs to reduce risks of varying types to ensure a consistent, safe and wholesome product
- Creates balanced scorecard of metrics to measure, analyze and monitor performance and establishes appropriate review/response from those measures.
- Ensures that all food safety programs are functioning as designed within an extensive contract manufacturing base of over 60 plus members as well as over 90 plus separate warehousing units throughout the US
- Developed new vendor onboarding system to capture all needed documentation and approval process
- Interact with customers on opportunities and complaints. Represent the company positively with customers.
- Serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Food Safety related trends, regulations, and legislation, while maintaining an elevated level of expertise on related subjects to ensure full compliance.
VP Food Safety and Quality
Local Bounti
04.2021 - 10.2022
- Executive leader with oversight of all food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance for entire organization and product lines.
- Developed the overall vision for food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance
- Developed and implemented effective food safety, quality, and regulatory compliance systems to lead to compliance of all applicable regulatory needs
- Oversee short-term and long-term strategies in food safety and quality
- Counsel on activities with key stakeholders on compliance to state, federal, and local regulatory authorities
- Support new acquisitions and on-boarding of food safety, quality, and regulatory requirements
- Assist with new facility build in the areas of food safety, sanitation, food defense, traffic flow, equipment buy and facility design
Principle Consultant/Adjunct Professor
Maryville University/St Louis Community College
01.2020 - 08.2021
- Assisting companies in developing food safety/regulatory programs to meet requirements for food manufacturing, both domestic and international.
- Ensure Food Safety Plans are current and relevant and are being followed by foreign/domestic contract manufacturing base.
- Assist business with understanding and analyzing issues involving food manufacturing, natural sciences, statistically analysis, technical and legal documentation for FSMA
- Ensure compliance to customer agreements and monitor trends in data that may lead to rejection or non-compliance.
- Drive the culture of Quality and Food Safety throughout the business and supply chain with low acid and acidified foods global supply chain
- Participate in Food Safety Risk Assessment and infrastructure evaluation as needed
- Support the business with key customer meetings, visits/audits and ensure follow up by the plant on any required quality/food safety action items.
- Provide guidance and oversight of supplier activities relating to food safety matters; sets standards for supplier qualification and the selection of manufacturers.
- Deliver training for PCQI Certification for both Human Food and Animal Food
Director Food Safety and Quality
Nature’s Bakery
01.2019 - 01.2020
- Senior leader responsible for entire company in Food Safety, Quality, regulatory, supplier onboarding, warehousing and distribution globally (RTE products). Lead business in adopting new food safety programs, work closely with sales and marketing, outline supplier qualifications, and develop efficiencies in process management.
Director Food Safety and Quality
Golden Boy Foods
06.2017 - 01.2019
- Senior leader responsible for the platform in Food Safety, Quality, co-manufacturers, vendors, manufacturing facilities, warehousing and distribution sites Globally. Led all compliance efforts in development of programs for FSMA, including development and implementation of FSVP system.
Director Corporate Compliance
Scoular
07.2014 - 06.2017
- Directed the overall quality, food safety, and regulatory compliance of all company facilities including grain facilities, milling operations, contract manufactures (RTD, RTE products), co-packers, suppliers, and foreign internal and external food manufacturing facilities for both human and pet nutrition.
Director, Quality Assurance and Food Safety
Glanbia
01.2012 - 07.2014
- Directed the overall quality, food safety, and regulatory efforts for Glanbia Nutritionals, which included ancient grain facility and finished flavor facility, finished nutritional drink manufacturing facility (aseptic processing), and multiple co-manufacturing sites located throughout the US.
Education
PhD - Business Administration
Trident University International
MJ (Master of Jurisprudence) - Global Food Law
Michigan State University
MS (Master of Life Science) - Biology
University of Maryland
MBA - Management/Business
Lindenwood University
BA - Biology
Lindenwood University
Skills
- Collaborative leadership
- Culture transformation
- Team management
- Policy development
- Key performance indicators
- Organizational development
- Team building and motivation
- Policy implementation
Affiliations
- Food Law PDG committee-International Association for Food Protection (IAFP)
- Food Safety Culture PDG committee-International Association for Food Protection (IAFP)
- Data Management and Analytics-International Association for Food Protection (IAFP)
- American Feed Ingredient Association
- FSMA Work Group, Hazard ID and Prevention Based programs committee Ingredient Approval and Definition committee
- Feed Regulatory Committee
- National Grain and Feed Association
- Feed Legislation and Regulatory Affairs Committee
- Food Processes Supplier Association council member
Certification
- Auditing SQF Food Safety Systems (Credential ID: 26131)
- Preventive Controls (PCQI) for Human Lead Instructor (Credential ID: 450FA264)
- Preventive Controls (PCQI) for Animal Lead Instructor (Credential ID: 718E7762)
- Foreign Supplier Verification Program certification
- BRC Practitioner (SAI Global)
- SQF Practitioner (Silliker, Inc.)
- Produce Safety Rule
- Meat HACCP, Seafood HACCP
- Better Processing Control School (aseptic processing, low acid foods, acidified foods, retorts)
- CQA-Certified Quality Auditor (ASQ)
- CMQ/OE-Certified Manager of Quality and Organizational Excellence (ASQ)
Timeline
Sr. Director, FSQA
Farmer Brothers Coffee Company
10.2022 - Current
VP Food Safety and Quality
Local Bounti
04.2021 - 10.2022
Principle Consultant/Adjunct Professor
Maryville University/St Louis Community College
01.2020 - 08.2021
Director Food Safety and Quality
Nature’s Bakery
01.2019 - 01.2020
Director Food Safety and Quality
Golden Boy Foods
06.2017 - 01.2019
Director Corporate Compliance
Scoular
07.2014 - 06.2017
Director, Quality Assurance and Food Safety
Glanbia
01.2012 - 07.2014
MJ (Master of Jurisprudence) - Global Food Law
Michigan State University
MS (Master of Life Science) - Biology
University of Maryland
MBA - Management/Business
Lindenwood University
BA - Biology
Lindenwood University
PhD - Business Administration
Trident University International