QA Supervisor
About The Position
The QA Supervisor ensures food safety and quality across UDA’s food production, quality, and packaging facilities, maintaining compliance with HACCP and CCP standards. The role oversees quality surveillance and inspections, investigates product and process defects, supports sanitation validation and environmental monitoring, and takes corrective action for food safety and quality deficiencies. The supervisor also maintains accurate records, works with management to monitor and audit plant operations for compliance with HACCP, GMP, and SQF standards, and assists with new-hire training on GMPs and food safety.
Requirements
- Minimum of 1 year of experience in a supervisor role.
- Minimum of 3 years working in a plant or manufacturing environment.
- Minimum of 3 years of dairy or food and beverage industry experience.
- Bachelor’s degree in an applicable science discipline or equivalent experience.
- Strong understanding of microbiology and food quality standards.
- Strong knowledge of good manufacturing practices and HACCP.
- Team-player mentality and ability to self-manage and prioritize time, tasks, and projects.
- Ability to lead multiple business initiatives in a manufacturing environment.
- Proficient computer skills, including Microsoft Office Suite and document control systems.
- Strong communication skills, including the ability to discuss and generate business reports, business correspondence, and procedure documents.
- Ability to walk and stand for 12 or more hours at a time.
- Ability to stoop, bend, reach, lift, and carry items up to 55 pounds.
- Ability to occasionally climb ladders and stairs of various heights, including floors of 100 feet or more, using appropriate fall-protection PPE.
- Ability to visually observe the condition of surroundings.
- Ability to work in varying extreme hot, cold, and wet temperatures and conditions.
- Ability to hear and speak, occasionally in high time-weighted-average environments with elevated decibel readings, using appropriate hearing protection.
Nice To Haves
- HACCP certification preferred.
Responsibilities
- Conduct root cause analyses to identify and understand product quality defects and failures in the product process.
- Oversee quality surveillance of manufacturing areas for HACCP compliance.
- Inspect the facility, tools, and equipment, and perform bacteriological environmental tests throughout plant areas.
- Develop quality and safety procedures and mentor plant staff to support their effectiveness.
- Regularly inspect production lines to identify and resolve quality issues.
- Coordinate monitoring of packaging lines for effective control of CPs and CCPs.
- Collaborate with the sanitation team to validate sanitation effectiveness and environmental monitoring.
- Log and report food safety and quality deficiencies, and take corrective action.
- Investigate food safety and quality incidents and generate incident reports.
- Maintain detailed, accurate, and legible records and enter data into document management systems.
- Collaborate with management to audit, monitor, and manage plant operations for compliance with HACCP, GMP, and SQF standards.
- Assist with new-hire training on GMPs and food safety awareness.
- Maintain food safety and quality standards and immediately resolve or report compliance issues.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
