Quality and Food Safety Supervisor – Snack Food Mfg

Quality and Food Safety Supervisor – Snack Food Mfg

Requirements

• High school or equivalent degree required; a 4-year bachelor’s degree is preferred
• 2+ years of experience in a quality assurance management or supervision role, preferably in the food manufacturing facility. Experience may be used as a substitute for education
• Sanitation experience is a plus
• HACCP Certification preferred
• PCQI and SQF Certification a plus

Responsibilities

• Supervises and monitors the activities of employees engaged in conducting tests to determine the quality of raw materials, bulk intermediate, and finished products
• Ensures behaviors, practices, and the work environment supports a safe and food safe workplace by enforcing safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, and sanitation rules and principles
• Ensures product quality via periodic auditing of specification adherence
• Communicate issues and developments identified during quality assurance activities along with corrective actions
• Customer complaint investigation and root cause analysis
• Coordinate new hire orientation and annual training for employees relating to quality and food safety programs
• Utilizes metrics/data to evaluate and improve quality assurance procedures and processes
• Oversees calibration, maintenance, and repair of quality assurance equipment
• Monitor, support, and enforce all food safety processes and procedures including SQF, AIB, and customer specific standards
• Maintains a working knowledge of government and industry quality assurance codes and standards
• Trained as PCQI, conducts verification/validation of preventative controls
• Trained as SQF Practitioner
• Participation in Internal Audits and Food Safety inspections
• Conducts reviews of non-conforming material (raw, finished product) and ensures product control is maintained, and corrective actions are developed
• Support recall program activities (trace exercises, mass balances, training)
• Serve as HACCP Coordinator
• Assists in implementing quality assurance improvement plans to improve quality assurance procedures
• Plans and establishes work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet performance standards
• Coordinate direct report scheduling to satisfy facility needs
• Utilizes standard work processes to ensure repeatable performance
• Monitors quality assurance goals and levels to make sure they are consistent with performance standards
• Confers with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments
• Observes quality control equipment and product to ensure that employees conform to quality assurance standards
• Tracks employees’ work performance and attendance to ensure performance metrics are met
• Directs employees involved in the quality assurance process

Preferred Qualifications

• Sanitation experience is a plus
• HACCP Certification preferred
• PCQI and SQF Certification a plus