Food Safety QA Supervisor

shift:3rd Shift

Position Summary:

Provide Food Safety, Quality Control, and Sanitation services and supervision to ensure that all products meet established standards. This position is responsible for leading the implementation and execution of the food safety, quality, and sanitation programs and maintaining a food-safe environment in a safe and quality manner. Additional responsibilities to include but are not limited to, providing cross functional support, supporting production driven changeovers, continuous improvement of departmental goals, scheduling, record keeping, and serving as the back up to the Quality Manager.

Essential Duties and Requirements include the following.

• Adhere to personnel safety policies and procedures as well as promote personnel safety to direct and indirect reports.
• Promote food safety and quality to peers, direct reports, and plant employees.
• Responsible for reporting food safety, quality and employee safety issues
• Works closely with Quality, Sanitation, Production, Warehouse, and Maintenance Departments. Provides leadership, training, and scheduling for quality and sanitation personnel.
• Responsible for the supervision and evaluation of the Quality and Sanitation Department staff including, but not limited to performance reviews, employee development, payroll, and ensuring standards of behavior and disciplinary procedures are applied consistently.
• Maintains QC and sanitation equipment, facilities, and supplies needed for product inspection and cleaning.
• Facilitates resolution of Quality issues between production and QC. Performs inspections, issues reports and COA’s, and takes necessary samples.

• Participates in internal and external audits and inspections to identify and coordinate corrective action for any issues regarding food safety and safety.
• Maintain hold and release, environmental testing, Master Sanitation schedule, SDS’s, SSOP’s, and other regulatory and company specific programs.

• Review Food Safety/HACCP, quality, and sanitation documentation.

• Inspect plant for pest control concerns, contamination, and compliance to cleaning schedules, critique housekeeping and employee practices relative to sanitation and quality requirements. Work with outside vendors to maintain supplies and equipment.
• Compliance with all requirements of programs/policies for Food Safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, HACCP, Quality, SQF, OSHA, Environmental, and as required by Plant, Company, Local, State and Federal mandates, or programs is required.

• Ensures all concerns are communicated and elevated to proper management personnel and contributes to problem solving.

• Other duties as assigned by Management.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job has supervisory responsibilities for Quality Assurance and Sanitation Technicians

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