Quality Assurance Engineer jobs in Birmingham, AL

Founded more than 80 years ago, OK Foods has grown from a livestock and poultry feed manufacturer to join one of the world's leading chicken producers, Bachoco.

Bachoco OK Foods produces the highest quality chicken products for the U.S. market. Currently, the Bachoco OK Foods family includes more than 4,000 team members who are dedicated to consistently producing high-quality chicken products and nourishing people around the world.

Bachoco OK Foods is seeking a Quality Assurance Superintendent for our Albertville, AL location.

Summary:Manages daily operational quality activities at the assigned complex. Responsible for daily monitoring and verifying activities relative to USDA, HACCP, GMP, SSOP, SPC, customer and company requirements.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Supervise activities of the operational quality assurance supervisors and technicians.
• Interacts with USDA personnel and customers as directed by senior management.
• Helps plan, organize, and implement HACCP protocol testing.
• Responsible for meeting government, customer and company requirements and the reporting of significant events in a timely manner to management.
• Helps plan and prepare for plant audits.
• Assists with product recalls and dispositioning events.
• Responsible for all directives brought forth by senior management.
• This is a safety sensitive position.

Supervisory Responsibilities:Manages two Quality Supervisors who supervise a total of 28 employees in the Quality Department. Is responsible for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of these units. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

Qualifications To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education and/or Experience:Bachelor's degree in a science related field from a four-year college or university; and four to seven years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills:Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the public.

Mathematical Skills:Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Reasoning Ability:Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Computer Skills:To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Database software; Payroll Assurance; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations:HACCP, GMP, SSOP and SQF certifications. Must have a valid driver's license and must be able to qualify for the company driver program.

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. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and distance vision.

Work Environment:The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; extreme cold and extreme heat. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

*Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies:

Please note that Bachoco OK Foods and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee.

In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco OK Foods and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco OK Foods.