What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Lead position at Seattle Fish Co.?
Company Description
Since 1918, Seattle Fish Co. has supplied the highest quality seafood available in the world to restaurants, hotels, caterers, and grocers throughout Denver and the Rocky Mountain area. As the region’s largest supplier of fresh fish, we’re proud to provide our community with an unparalleled selection of seafood that showcases the same passionate dedication to personal service that this multigenerational family company has fostered for over a century.
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Job Description
The Quality Lead is a hands-on role and plays a critical role in our company’s success. This role will have a significant impact on our company’s ability to provide the highest quality seafood, terrestrial protein, and gourmet foods to our customers. This role also ensures our supporting efforts, such as GMPs, HACCP compliance, employee training, and quality assurance, are all effective and continuing to improve over time. Your time will be spent approximately as follows: Training and Development—self and others—(20%), compliance and administrative tasks (40%), time spent on the floor answering questions, inspecting product, and ensuring compliance (40%).
Reports To: Inventory Control Manager
Hourly/Salary: Salary
Pay Range: $55,000 - $60,000
Schedule: Sunday -Thursday; mix of AM and PM shifts
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Help ensure all Food Safety, HACCP, Quality, and GMP requirements and programs are followed, modeling the appropriate behavior personally and ensuring your team’s compliance.
Coordinate all efforts with the Food Safety Manager
Continually improve the caliber of our quality techs and production employees through feedback, coaching, training, and accountability using an engaging leadership style
Regularly interact with and support other departments using professional and prompt written and verbal communication.
Actively support all Company Safety efforts and initiatives, including OSHA standards
Work with the Production or Inventory Control Manager to achieve key operational metrics centered around quality and product dumps
Accurately complete and take ownership for any necessary administrative tasks
Ensure their teams are actively supporting our goal of providing our customers with the highest quality product and orders filled accurately
Understand key business metrics and KPIs and ensure your department is achieving their goals. You must have a solutions mindset and the resilience to overcome obstacles
Safely operate material handling equipment including forklifts, pallet jacks, lift trucks, etc.
Specific roles, responsibilities, and job duties can vary and may change over time
Qualifications
Effective Quality Leads:
Are internally motivated to achieve goals and work well in an autonomous environment
Focus their efforts on proactive tasks to ensure poor quality products are never shipped to our customers
Have a relentless focus on Continuous Improvement and generating creative solutions
Are meticulously detailed in their administrative work, ensuring all our compliance efforts are followed and accurate
Are great communicators. They clearly communicate to their teams, to their manager, to their peers all relevant information to help others do their jobs.
Take ownership of their development. They are willing to ask for help or feedback, they act on development needs presented by their manager, and make efforts to grow their knowledge and skills
Understand the value of a structured routine, but have the ability to shift priorities quickly if business needs dictate
Are able to identify common trends quickly and are able to create impactful plans to fix the root cause
Are able to effectively influence the behavior of others through coaching and feedback
Other Requirements:
Preferred Experience:
2-3 years comparable leadership experience in a warehouse or production environment
HACCP certified (we can provide certification for the right candidate)
High School Diploma or G.E.D. required, B.S. or B.A. a plus
Working knowledge of Microsoft Applications and ability to learn and use Teams effectively
Knowledge of Seafood is a huge plus!
Some schedule flexibility. We value a work/life balance, but have a very seasonal business that requires flexibility from the company and its leaders
Quality Leads will typically work in various temperatures, but regularly in refrigerated or frozen areas of the warehouse and ambient office environments. This can be a physically demanding position, requiring frequent periods of sitting, standing, climbing, bending, crouching, lifting, pushing, and pulling. There is frequent lifting of up to 20 pounds and occasional lifting of up to 50 pounds. Other duties and responsibilities outside of those listed above may be required from time to time.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Salary : $55,000 - $60,000