Job Overview
Compensation
Salary
Range $42,800.00 - $132,300.00
Benefits
vision coverage
Medical Coverage
dental coverage
Paid Time Off
sick leave
vacation
401(k)
Job Description
The company is a dedicated and mission-driven organization focused on excelling in its industry by providing the best products and services to customers. It is committed to fostering trust-based relationships with suppliers, ensuring profitability for shareholders, and creating opportunities for the growth and development of all its team members. The company operates within a framework of core values that include Availability, Determination, Discipline, Humility, Ownership, Simplicity, and Sincerity, which guide its daily operations and strategic decisions.
This organization is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) Supervisor. The role reports directly to the QA Superintendent and carries primary responsibility for managing the FSQA workforce to achieve all safety, food safety, and quality goals as set by facility management. This leadership position involves supervising FSQA personnel and overseeing the quality and food safety aspects of production. The FSQA Supervisor plays a vital role in implementing and maintaining quality assurance and food safety programs such as HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) and SSOP (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures).
The role demands a proactive and detail-oriented professional who can coordinate the FSQA team’s activities, ensuring compliance with company, customer, and government standards. The individual will conduct investigations related to quality assurance and food safety processes and lead initiatives for continuous process improvements. Participation in broader Operational Excellence projects is also expected to enhance overall manufacturing efficiency and safety.
Key responsibilities include conducting microbial research and development testing, managing labor within budget constraints, minimizing customer claims through engineering controls, ensuring sanitation standards are met, and improving employee safety by identifying hazards and troubleshooting solutions. The supervisor is also tasked with managing daily production planning and scheduling, overseeing employee timecards and vacation requests, and fostering strong working relationships between production supervision, USDA inspectors, and employees.
The role requires excellent communication skills as the supervisor must regularly interact with USDA inspectors and other departments to ensure compliance with food safety regulations, HACCP plans, and company policies. They will also be responsible for directing and motivating QA employees, conducting employee evaluations and hiring, performing product and raw material sampling, and testing new equipment from a quality perspective.
This position operates in a dynamic production environment with exposure to various conditions such as chemicals, machinery, slippery floors, extreme temperatures, and loud noises. A commitment to working 40+ hours per week, including occasional weekends, is necessary.
The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field such as Food Science, Meat Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology Engineering, or Food Engineering. Extensive technical expertise in quality assurance and production, coupled with supervisory experience, is essential. Exceptional interpersonal skills, bilingual abilities, independent decision-making, conflict resolution, and adaptability are highly valued competencies. Applicants should demonstrate integrity, continuous improvement mindset, compassion, and strong organizational skills. Basic computer knowledge and a solid attendance and safety record are also important.
Benefits include vision, medical, and dental coverage starting after 60 days of employment, paid time off including sick leave, vacation, and six company-observed holidays, and 401(k) eligibility beginning on the first day of employment with a company match after one year of service following vesting schedules. This opportunity offers a rewarding career for those passionate about ensuring food safety and quality within a supportive and value-driven company.
This organization is seeking a highly skilled and motivated Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) Supervisor. The role reports directly to the QA Superintendent and carries primary responsibility for managing the FSQA workforce to achieve all safety, food safety, and quality goals as set by facility management. This leadership position involves supervising FSQA personnel and overseeing the quality and food safety aspects of production. The FSQA Supervisor plays a vital role in implementing and maintaining quality assurance and food safety programs such as HACCP (Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points) and SSOP (Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures).
The role demands a proactive and detail-oriented professional who can coordinate the FSQA team’s activities, ensuring compliance with company, customer, and government standards. The individual will conduct investigations related to quality assurance and food safety processes and lead initiatives for continuous process improvements. Participation in broader Operational Excellence projects is also expected to enhance overall manufacturing efficiency and safety.
Key responsibilities include conducting microbial research and development testing, managing labor within budget constraints, minimizing customer claims through engineering controls, ensuring sanitation standards are met, and improving employee safety by identifying hazards and troubleshooting solutions. The supervisor is also tasked with managing daily production planning and scheduling, overseeing employee timecards and vacation requests, and fostering strong working relationships between production supervision, USDA inspectors, and employees.
The role requires excellent communication skills as the supervisor must regularly interact with USDA inspectors and other departments to ensure compliance with food safety regulations, HACCP plans, and company policies. They will also be responsible for directing and motivating QA employees, conducting employee evaluations and hiring, performing product and raw material sampling, and testing new equipment from a quality perspective.
This position operates in a dynamic production environment with exposure to various conditions such as chemicals, machinery, slippery floors, extreme temperatures, and loud noises. A commitment to working 40+ hours per week, including occasional weekends, is necessary.
The ideal candidate will hold a Bachelor’s Degree in a related field such as Food Science, Meat Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology Engineering, or Food Engineering. Extensive technical expertise in quality assurance and production, coupled with supervisory experience, is essential. Exceptional interpersonal skills, bilingual abilities, independent decision-making, conflict resolution, and adaptability are highly valued competencies. Applicants should demonstrate integrity, continuous improvement mindset, compassion, and strong organizational skills. Basic computer knowledge and a solid attendance and safety record are also important.
Benefits include vision, medical, and dental coverage starting after 60 days of employment, paid time off including sick leave, vacation, and six company-observed holidays, and 401(k) eligibility beginning on the first day of employment with a company match after one year of service following vesting schedules. This opportunity offers a rewarding career for those passionate about ensuring food safety and quality within a supportive and value-driven company.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in related field required
- Extensive knowledge and technical skill in quality assurance and production jobs
- Proven supervisory experience
- Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully
- Bilingual skills helpful
- Capable of independent decision making
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrates integrity and fairness
- Able to quickly and effectively adapt to new and changing situations
- Desire for continuous improvement
- Shows compassion towards and has an interest in others
- Basic computer knowledge required
- Good organizational skills
- Able to work assigned hours/days including occasional weekends
- Good attendance and safety records
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in food science, meat science, chemical engineering, biotechnology engineering, food engineering, or related field
- Extensive knowledge and technical skill in a variety of quality assurance and production roles
- Proven supervisory experience
- Ability to communicate effectively and respectfully, both written and verbally
- Bilingual skills helpful
- Capable of independent decision making
- Ability to manage multiple priorities
- Excellent conflict resolution skills
- Demonstrates integrity and fairness
- Able to quickly and effectively adapt to new and changing situations
- Desire for continuous improvement
- Shows compassion towards and has an interest in others
- Basic computer knowledge
- Good organizational skills
- Able to work assigned hours/days, including occasional weekends
- Good attendance and safety records
Job Duties
- Meet and exceed quality and food safety goals set forth by plant management by leveraging advance engineering skillsets
- Coordinates the activities of the Food Safety and Quality Assurance team for implementation of quality and food safety programs and procedures
- Conducts investigations of plant Quality Assurance and Food Safety processes and suggests process improvements
- Participates in Operational Excellence projects
- Looks for continuous improvement in operating processes and procedures
- Conduct microbial R&D testing
- Responsible for minimizing customer claims through engineering controls
- Monitors product and procedures to assure company, customer and government specifications are met or surpassed and makes corrective action
- Coordinate and supervise pre-operation sanitation, examining and verifying the cleanliness and sanitation of equipment and facilities daily
- Improve employee safety by identifying hazards and problem shooting solutions
- Manages labor to a zero budget
- Proactively looks for ways to reduce cost through the elimination of foreign material
- Completes daily production plans by scheduling and assigning employees, accomplishing work results, prioritizing, monitoring progress, revising schedules, resolving problems, reporting results on end of shift production summaries
- Manages hourly employee’s timecards and vacation requests, ensuring accurate pay
- Increases employee retention and maintains good working relationships with Production Supervision, USDA (meat), and all employees
- Ensures food safety, human resources, and safety policies compliance by all production employees
- Resolve problems and issues with products and employees as they arise
- Communicate frequently with USDA inspectors regarding product, employees, safety, etc.
- Ensure compliance to HACCP plan for all products
- Establish and maintain shelf-life requirements, finished product specifications, leaker testing, formulation weights, temperatures, and other necessary standards
- Direct, motivate, and monitor QA employees
- Conduct interviews and hire new employees
- evaluate performance of current employees
- Conduct sampling of finished product and raw materials for bacteria
- Monitor and ensure proper procedures, safety, and cleanliness of production employees
- Ensure completion of all QA duties
- Test new equipment for quality aspects
Job Criteria
Experience
Mid Level (3-7 years)
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