Quality Supervisor - Food
This role will ensure that food safety and quality standards are met and maintained by understanding a positive quality culture, implementing, and enforcing customer, regulatory, and the company processes, policies, and procedures. In addition, this role is accountable for internal and external quality complaint resolution, execution of audits, and ensuring efficient and smooth operations within the production facility.
Responsibilities:
- Maintains the quality assurance budget, ensuring the budget is in control and on plan.
- Manages all functions working with food safety and quality. Trains team on SQF, GMPs, SOPs, and safe work practices to ensure standards are upheld.
- Establish and maintain proactive quality, safety, and sanitation standards, processes, and documentation to meet standards required for SQF, HACCP, OSHA, FDA, EPA, customers, and other regulatory agencies.
- Resolve problems by analyzing data, investigating issues, identifying solutions, making recommendations, and taking corrective and preventive action.
- Analyzes process and quality data to measure, assess, and improve product quality and performance.
- Educate production teams on standards and processes, instilling a quality approach in all employees.
- Coordinate and execute root cause investigation of detected risks or failures, complaints, and monitor CAPA implementation.
- Work closely with production managers to maximize product quality and reliability and minimize cost.
- Track, analyze, and lead initiatives for all internal quality and customer complaint issues.
- Determine, document, and approve site-specific or one-time occurrences such as protocols (reworks, validations, etc.), deviations (planned or unplanned), waivers, or releases for materials and products as required.
- Assess product specifications, testing to ensure they are in the acceptable range for customer and internal requirements.
- Coordinate and execute internal, customer, supplier, subcontractor, and regulatory audits.
- Manages change control of Standard Operating Procedures.
- Complies with safety, sanitation, and GMP requirements.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university, major in a Science field (i.e. Food, Chemistry, Microbiology)
- 3+ years related experience in Quality Control or Quality Assurance in a GMP manufacturing facility; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Experience in supervision of Quality Assurance and internal and external auditing,
This role will ensure that food safety and quality standards are met and maintained by understanding a positive quality culture, implementing, and enforcing customer, regulatory, and the company processes, policies, and procedures. In addition, this role is accountable for internal and external quality complaint resolution, execution of audits, and ensuring efficient and smooth operations within the production facility.
Responsibilities:
- Maintains the quality assurance budget, ensuring the budget is in control and on plan.
- Manages all functions working with food safety and quality. Trains team on SQF, GMPs, SOPs, and safe work practices to ensure standards are upheld.
- Establish and maintain proactive quality, safety, and sanitation standards, processes, and documentation to meet standards required for SQF, HACCP, OSHA, FDA, EPA, customers, and other regulatory agencies.
- Resolve problems by analyzing data, investigating issues, identifying solutions, making recommendations, and taking corrective and preventive action.
- Analyzes process and quality data to measure, assess, and improve product quality and performance.
- Educate production teams on standards and processes, instilling a quality approach in all employees.
- Coordinate and execute root cause investig