Quality Assurance Shift Supervisor - Food Manufacturing

Snack Innovations•Piscataway Township, NJ

10d•$28 - $36•Onsite

About The Position

Snack Innovations is a growing manufacturer of better-for-you salty snack foods in Piscataway, New Jersey, producing snack chips, sticks, straws, curls, and popcorn. The Quality Assurance Shift Supervisor leads food-safety and quality activities on an assigned manufacturing shift and reports to the Quality Manager. This hands-on floor leadership role directs Quality Technicians, protects product integrity, and responds to food-safety and quality risks. Opportunities are available across first, second, and third shifts; candidates may indicate a preferred shift, but final assignments depend on business needs.

Requirements

Three or more years of Quality experience in food or beverage manufacturing.
Hands-on experience with HACCP or Food Safety Plans, critical control points, environmental monitoring, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and hold employees accountable through formal supervision or meaningful lead responsibility.
Experience handling out-of-specification results, product holds, deviations, and escalation decisions.
Working knowledge of GMPs, preventive controls, allergen controls, sanitation verification, and food-manufacturing Quality practices.
Ability to interpret product specifications, sampling plans, written procedures, and Quality records.
Strong judgment, problem-solving, communication, organization, and recordkeeping skills.
Ability to work an assigned shift, including nights, weekends, overtime, or schedule changes based on production needs.
High school diploma or GED.

Nice To Haves

Associate degree or technical coursework in food science, biology, chemistry, or a related field.
Experience supervising Quality Technicians in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
Bilingual English/Spanish.

Responsibilities

Lead Quality Technicians’ daily work, including assignments, coverage, priorities, coaching, and follow-up.
Ensure start-up, in-process, changeover, and finished-product checks are completed at required frequencies and against approved specifications.
Monitor critical control points and respond to deviations, product holds, and nonconforming materials.
Support and maintain HACCP and facility Food Safety Plan requirements.
Oversee environmental monitoring, sanitation verification, allergen controls, GMPs, traceability, and metal-detector activities.
Lead or support investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, audits, mock recalls, and product trials.
Review Quality records for accuracy, completeness, and timely escalation.
Oversee product testing, including weight, moisture, sodium, nitrogen, bulk density, appearance, flavor, packaging integrity, and coding.
Partner with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Quality leadership to resolve shift-level issues while protecting product integrity.
Provide effective shift handoffs and communicate unresolved concerns to appropriate leaders.