Qa/Food Safety Superintendent

Empire Packing • Olympia, WA

6h • Onsite

About The Position

The Qa/Food Safety Superintendent at Empire Packing is responsible for managing assigned personnel to ensure optimal performance, leading through effective goal setting, communication, and coaching. This role involves directing and assigning personnel, providing assistance, training employees on daily needs, and implementing corrective actions. The superintendent must maintain an open dialogue with the team, resolve feedback and concerns positively, and ensure adherence to all company policies. A key aspect of the role is monitoring and supervising all aspects of quality, ensuring products meet or exceed specifications, and working with customers and USDA to meet regulatory requirements. The superintendent also assures compliance with safety rules and GMPs, conducts supplier audits, and acts as a liaison between USDA and the production team. Responsibilities include leading third-party audits, ensuring products are defect-free, verifying scale label compliance, training technicians, performing temperature checks, and conducting plant audits. The role also involves assisting with product evaluations, completing administrative tasks accurately, and potentially assuming other assigned duties.

Requirements

• HACCP Certification
• 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
• May require working on feet for long hours, bending, and stooping.
• Must be able to hear average or normal conversations and receive ordinary information.
• Must be able to frequently and regularly use wrists, hands, and or fingers.
• Average, ordinary visual acuity necessary to prepare or inspect documents, products, or operate machinery.
• Regularly lift and/or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds, and occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds throughout the day.
• Must be able to work for long hours in a food processing environment, where it is wet, damp, and cold. Temperatures are frequently below freezing, and employees are expected to remain in these conditions for the majority of their work days

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.
• Assumes responsibility for quality and continuous improvement.
• 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.
• Career Development: Out company is dedicated to supporting professional growth by offering continuous learning opportunities and a focus on career growth through our Better Futures program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager