QA/FOOD SAFETY SUPERINTENDENT

Empire Packing • Olympia, WA

3d • $88,000 - $93,000 • Onsite

About The Position

This position effectively manages assigned personnel, ensuring optimal performance through effective goal setting, communication, and coaching. The role involves directing and assigning personnel, providing assistance, training employees, and evaluating corrective actions. It requires notifying and working with Production Management when problems arise, maintaining open dialogue, and resolving feedback and concerns directly and positively. The position also ensures all company policies are followed. Additionally, it monitors and supervises all aspects of quality, ensuring product meets or exceeds quality specifications and that labels meet regulatory requirements. Compliance with safety rules and GMPs is essential, along with performing audits on approved suppliers. The role assumes responsibility for quality and continuous improvement, leading third-party audits, acting as a liaison between USDA and the production team, and ensuring products are produced to customer specification and are defect-free. It also ensures technicians are trained, documentation is maintained, and temperature checks are performed. Plant audits and inspections related to product quality are also a key responsibility. Assistance with product evaluations and timely completion of administrative tasks are expected. This role may assume other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• HACCP Certification Required
• Minimum of 5 years of Food Safety and Quality Assurance experience required
• Minimum of 5 years of supervisory experience in a manufacturing environment required
• Strong computer skills including the ability to prepare spreadsheets and use Microsoft Office Products (Word, Outlook, Excel, Power Point, and/or Access) to analyze data and trends
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite
• Ability to speak, read, and write English
• Good verbal and written communication skills

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or related field preferred but not required.
• FSMA Certification Preferred
• Bilingual (Spanish) preferred

Responsibilities

• Effectively manages assigned personnel, ensuring optimal performance.
• Leads through effective goal setting, communication, and coaching.
• Directs and assigns personnel, provides assistance as needed.
• Trains and advises employees on current daily needs. Leads personnel to improve performance and productivity.
• Evaluates, formulates, and implements employee corrective actions.
• Notify and work with Production Management when problems arise.
• Maintain an open dialogue with assigned team.
• When approached with feedback and concerns resolve the problem in the most direct and positive way possible.
• Ensure all company policies are followed.
• Monitor and supervise all aspects of quality.
• Supervise personnel ensuring work standards are followed.
• Ensures product meets or exceeds quality incoming and outgoing product specification, agreed upon by the customers and suppliers.
• Works with customers and USDA to ensure labels meet regulatory requirements.
• Assures compliance with all company safety rules and GMPs.
• Ensures that random audits are performed on approved suppliers, verifying that the supplier is meeting or exceeding expectations.
• Leads all third-party audits to include formal responses and corrective actions as required.
• Liaison between USDA and the production team.
• Ensure products are produced to customer specification and are defect free.
• Ensure that scale labels have all regulatory requirements set forth by USDA and the customer.
• Ensures technicians are trained on proper work standards, maintain all proper documentation and are in their assigned areas monitoring product or defects.
• Ensure that temperature checks are being performed on product.
• Perform plant audits and inspections as related to Quality of product and needs to produce a quality product.
• Provide assistance when necessary with product evaluations.
• Ensures all administrative tasks are completed timely and accurately.
• May assume other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Medical coverage begin after 60 days of employment.
• Dental coverage begin after 60 days of employment.
• Vision coverage begin after 60 days of employment.
• Sick leave
• Vacation
• Company observed holidays
• 401(K) company match begins after the first year of service and follows the company vesting schedule.
• Continuous learning opportunities
• Focus on career growth through our Better Futures program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree