(USA) Assistant Quality Control Manager - Supply Chain

Walmart•Shafter, CA

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Assistant Quality Control Manager - Supply Chain plays a crucial role in ensuring product quality and safety within the supply chain. This position involves partnership collaboration, quality control, food safety management, business process improvement, influential communication, data and digital literacy, warehouse management, documentation, ripening processes, and operational excellence. The role requires a strong understanding of various business vernaculars, quality control techniques, food safety policies, and process improvement methodologies. The Assistant Quality Control Manager will work to build and maintain partnerships, identify and address partner needs, lead discussions, present findings, and leverage data to drive solutions. They will also be responsible for monitoring and controlling food handling hazards, ensuring sanitary conditions, and improving operational efficiencies. The position emphasizes a commitment to Walmart's values, including respecting individuals, acting with integrity, serving customers, and striving for excellence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Food Science, or related field OR 2 years’ experience in food manufacturing or production quality control/assurance, food safety or related field.
Knowledge of Stakeholder identification and mapping, stakeholder analysis, stakeholder communication, stakeholder engagement techniques, stakeholder management effectiveness tools and methods, fluency in many specialized business vernaculars.
Knowledge of auditing and reporting requirements, maintaining inventory quality including food for storing and processing.
Knowledge of Cold Chain Policies, Sanitary and Safe Food Handling Practices, personal protective equipment policies.
Knowledge of Process improvement techniques and methodologies, change management principles, process analysis processes.
Knowledge of Verbal/Nonverbal behaviors, application and allocation of Business Communication styles/techniques in ambiguous and challenging situations, emotional intelligence, situational awareness, communication channels/mediums, interpersonal skills, and universal relationship building with ability to connect unconnected parties, influencing styles.
Knowledge of Data collection modes, techniques and tools, data analytics, visualization tools and techniques, existing and upcoming digital applications, technology innovation trends, industry benchmarks, data quality governance.
Knowledge of regulatory and reporting requirements, Warehouse Key Performance Indicators, warehouse equipment maintenance procedures, basic warehouse activities.
Knowledge of regulatory and reporting requirements, data auditing processes, data retention policies.
Knowledge of Fruit ripening processes, color variation guidelines, various produce product quality ordering and scheduling procedures, proper produce handling procedures.
Knowledge of regulatory and reporting requirements, Standard Operating Procedure documentation, key functional roles within department.

Nice To Haves

Data Analysis
Fruit ripening experience

Responsibilities

Builds, maintains, and enhances effective internal and external partnerships.
Identifies and addresses additional partner needs and educates them on value creation.
Communicates with other individuals or cross-functional teams to solve shared problems cooperatively.
Participates in audits of product deliveries and stored products.
Understands and utilizes all tools used for maintaining audit information sharing best practices with leaders and peers.
Employs basic quality control techniques in food testing and other practices.
Identifies potential cold chain deviations and opportunities.
Handles actual or potential quality problems such as problems with raw materials.
Performs quality control activities according to organizational standards/requirements.
Demonstrates understanding of the effects of time and temperature on product quality.
Coaches personnel on how to use tools and equipment for quality inspection.
Monitors and controls potential food handling hazards such as cold chain management and cross contamination.
Ensures that team members are wearing appropriate personal protective equipment in accordance with workplace standards.
Ensures proper food handling practices.
Informs others about factors that may have an impact on safe food handling processes.
Assures that all equipment and work areas are sanitary.
Follows the ServSafe standards, food handling policies, and applicable laws and regulations.
Participates in defining organizational strategic goals and purposes; defines how to gather and keep customers.
Analyzes business processes, identifies alternative solutions to outdated processes, and assesses their feasibility.
Establishes requirements for substantial changes in the overall mission, roles, responsibilities, and processes necessary to make business improvements.
Evaluates financial, cultural, technological, and other factors that need to be addressed.
Recommends innovative approaches that seek the use of advanced technology.
Works to overcome Business Process Improvement resistance from managers, the labor force, and other groups.
Leads discussions with varying viewpoints confidently.
Presents to and influences audiences across divisions using appropriate frameworks/tools.
Leverages fact-based data and analytics insights from multiple finance and business domains to build a cohesive narrative, forms an argument, organizes thoughts, and presents in a clear, concise, meaningful way.
Demonstrates superior decision and coordination skills when faced with conflicting or ambiguous inputs.
Acts as a trusted advisor to business partners, influencing them to act as needed to move the business forward.
Provides respectful, effective, timely feedback to others.
Seeks, internalizes, and utilizes feedback to make changes.
Delineates the problem, leveraging data to determine the root cause and apply the information to find a solution.
Ensures data quality and organization processes information for analysis.
Able to define benchmarks and quality rules for key data assets.
Participates in the feedback loop between data intake and insights and continually works on improving the data collection process.
Identifies and proposes ways to automate and/or improve existing processes in the respective area of work with the help of technology.
Demonstrates a working knowledge of Data Science techniques and their applications to their role.
Consumes existing data/reports and uses them to make business decisions.
Performs basic warehousing activities such as receiving, putting away, picking, packing, and shipping merchandise.
Collects and translates the business requirements for specifications of warehouse management systems.
Assists in implementing mechanization approaches and techniques in a distribution center.
Analyzes and documents key performance indicators of warehouse management in own area.
Maintains warehouse equipment and facilities.
Evaluates best practices of data gathering, record maintenance, and documentation within the industry.
Advises on advanced data gathering and record maintenance.
Evaluates the pros and cons of various audit data analysis methods for the organization.
Teaches others how to review and interpret the report and logged data.
Implements procedures and policies for record maintenance.
Oversees data gathering and documentation within the area of work.
Manages the conditioning and ripening of bananas, avocados, pears, and other produce that need ripening.
Forecasts demand for fruit to ensure that it arrives at the desired color and maturity.
Orders and schedules inbound and outbound delivery of bananas, avocados, pears, and other ripening produce.
Educates distribution center and store associates on proper handling procedures.
Evaluates relevant industry practices from an operations perspective and works accordingly.
Works to resolve obstacles to goals of several organizational functions.
Advises others to carry out responsibilities based on understanding of key organizational functions.
Designs awareness programs for multi- and cross-functional issues of the regulatory environment.
Facilitates interrelationships between major functions and sub-functions.
Recommends efficiencies in operational functions and One Best Way documentation wherever possible.
Monitors organizational adherence to policies and procedures.
Facilitates communications across departments to ensure a smooth workflow in the facility and related partner functions.
Applies regulatory programs as needed to comply with major products, processes, or business areas.
Provides recommendations and solutions to existing and potential legal or regulatory problems.
Builds high-performing teams, embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences.
Creates a workplace where associates feel seen, supported, and connected through a culture of belonging.
Creates opportunities for all associates to thrive and perform.
Works collaboratively, builds strong and trusting relationships, communicates with impact, energy, and positivity to motivate and influence.
Attracts and retains the best talent, empowers and develops talent, and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.
Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics, and compliance.
Models the Walmart values to support and foster our culture.
Holds oneself and others accountable.
Supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, members, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).
Acts in a selfless manner and is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, fair, and transparent.
Delivers results while putting the customer first, considers and adapts to how, where, and when customers shop, and applies the EDLP and EDLC business models to all plans.
Makes decisions based on data, insights, and analysis, balances short- and long-term priorities, and considers our customers, fellow associates, shareholders, suppliers, business partners, and communities when making plans.
Displays curiosity and a desire to learn, takes calculated risks, demonstrates courage and resilience, and encourages learning from mistakes.
Drives continuous improvements, adopts and encourages the use of new technologies and skills, and supports others through change.

Benefits

Medical coverage
Vision coverage
Dental coverage
401(k)
Stock purchase
Company-paid life insurance
PTO (including sick leave)
Parental leave
Family care leave
Bereavement
Jury duty
Voting leave
Short-term disability
Long-term disability
Company discounts
Military Leave Pay
Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
Live Better U education benefit program (tuition, books, and fees paid by Walmart for eligible associates)