QA Supervisor

Job Description

Opportunity Stanislaus is helping Valley Milk, LLC recruit a QA Supervisor.

Job Responsibilities & Essential Job Functions:

Oversee the day-to-day Quality Assurance programs, including food safety, product testing, product release, and compliance to regulatory requirements. Assist and coordinate regulatory audits with the Quality Assurance Manager.

Directly responsible for the day-to-day management of the QA Laboratory Staff.

Manage, oversee, and audit the Valley Milk product testing programs.

Maintain product testing and calibration procedures.

Disposition of product for release as well as overseeing the COA process.

Review and sign all lab and food safety documentation.

Assist the Quality Assurance Manager with foreign material and food safety events, product recalls, traceability, and mock recalls.

Maintain current knowledge of trends and changes affecting food safety and USDA plant compliance.

Complete food safety audits and associated reporting as required.

Oversee the Milk Quality program to include the quality bonus to haulers and weekly quality reports.

Maintain and continue the development of FDA, USDA, and international food regulatory compliance programs

Coordinate and assist the Quality Assurance Manager to ensure plant facilities are audited and improvements are implemented to the Housekeeping/Food Safety Plan/Food Quality Plan

Responsible for overseeing the inventory of laboratory supplies, chemicals and consumables and product testing budget.

Provide production with weekly/daily quality reports during production meetings.

Report off-specification products and determine disposition.

Communicate all quality issues in a timely manner.

Trend and develop monthly quality reports.

Support the sales team and Quality manager with quality system requests from customers.

Competencies:

Collaboration Skills

Communication Proficiency

Customer/Client Focus

Decision Making

Lead by Example

Learning Orientation

Personal Effectiveness/Credibility

Problem Solving/Analysis

Teamwork Orientation

Technical Capacity

Supervisory Responsibility:

This position has direct supervisory responsibility for the laboratory staff.

Work Environment:

This job operates in a professional office environment, as well as a laboratory and process manufacturing environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, multipurpose scanner/photocopiers, and filing cabinets. While performing some duties of this job, the employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, moving mechanical parts, and vibration. The noise level in the work environment and job sites can be loud.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to:

Talk or hear.

The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle or feel; and reach with hands and arms.

The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch or crawl.

The employee must frequently lift and move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and move up to 25 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

Position Type and Expected Hours of Work: The Quality Assurance Supervisor is a full-time, exempt/salaried position and reports directly to the Quality Assurance Manager.

The regular work schedule for the position is:

M – F, 8:00am to 5:00pm, with flexibility for variable hours (including occasional evening and weekend work) as needed to accommodate our continuous business operations.

Travel:

Any job-related travel is primarily local during the business day and generally minimal, although some out-of-area and overnight travel may be expected to attend trainings, conferences or meetings.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor's Degree in Food Science or years of experience in a related field desired

3+ years of food industry-related experience required with demonstrated advancement in roles of increasing responsibility.

Knowledge of manufacturing methods, process improvement programs, and standard operating procedures.

HACCP, SQF, ISO and GFSI Certifications and/or expertise.

Preferred Education and Experience:

Dairy processing background experience preferred.

Additional Eligibility Qualifications:

Qualified candidates must be able to understand, read, write and speak English.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance:

Candidates must demonstrate current US work status eligibility.

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.