About the Role
The Quality and Food Safety Supervisor will support the manufacturing process by focusing the Quality Assurance Team’s efforts to ensure product specifications meet or exceed customer quality and food safety requirements.
Key Activities
Under general guidance from the QA Manager, actively monitors plant QA activities, raw ingredients, and finished goods for compliance with quality and food safety policies, including regulatory requirements, HACCP, GMPs, and SQF.
Oversees and/or performs a variety of analytic tests and audits to ensure ingredients, finished products, and packaging comply with order specifications, quality/food safety polices and HACCP, GMP, and SQF compliance.
Ensures that various required food quality and safety processes and analytic tests are completed and test results are recorded in compliance with record-keeping policies and requirements.
Leads and coordinates personnel performing the inspection and sampling of ingredients and final products by ensuring inspections are done correctly, timely manner, and that correct decisions are made.
Ensures the day-to-day quality hold activities are performed and reported in a proficient manner, including corrective action reporting and documentation.
Ensures raw materials and finished product holds, and releases are on time.
Provides supervisory support, mentorship and direction for up to six QA Technicians.
Professionally and effectively communicates and collaborates with internal departments as warranted to ensure needed product or packaging adjustments and enacted.
Preferred Skills
Experience in a food manufacturing environment or a similar industry is preferred.
Bilingual in Spanish a plus.
Education and Experience
Science-related bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a quality or regulatory compliance environment.
Knowledge/experience with HAACP, GMP, Food Defence and SQF requirements.
About Us
Finding a great opportunity that fosters growth, a great culture, and leadership opportunities can be difficult. Top Quality Recruitment (TQR) connects professionals with leadership opportunities across the Packaging, Food and Beverage, Medical Devices, and Biotechnology industries. With 50+ years of experience, we believe in one-to-one communication and finding the best candidate/employer match possible.
TQR is an equal-opportunity employer that encourages diversity. We will consider all applications.
Accommodation for applicants with disabilities is available upon request.
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