Quality Assurance Supervisor 2nd Shift
The Quality Supervisor is a quality champion for the plant. You’ll be responsible for: ensuring testing results are timely, accurate, and meet all regulatory requirements as well as Land O’Lakes specifications prior to release of product.
Salary Range: $70K to $85K (Depending on Experience)
Hours: 5pm – 3am Monday – Friday; and occasional Saturdays as needed.
Essential Functions:
• Coaching employees as needed to ensure compliance with plant quality programs, Enterprise Quality Management System, and SQF requirements.
• Assist the QA Manager in measuring and monitoring key performance indicators as well as contributing data, background, and insight into those metrics.
• Understand Regulatory requirements and work on any plant audit.
• Assist the management team in the maintenance of the quality system.
• Support Hicksville policies, procedures, specifications, HACCP, standards, and regulatory requirements to ensure compliance.
• Conduct internal plant audits.
• Developing and overseeing training of new department employees.
• Testing and disposition of ingredients and products.
• Monitoring and inspecting process equipment and in-process inspection and testing activities.
• To improve the plant quality systems and provide service to help operations for continuous improvement and compliance.
• The position is responsible for the supervision of QA technicians/QA Operators and the administration and monitoring of all laboratory testing equipment and procedures.
Required Experience/Education:
• Bachelors degree in Food /Dairy Science or related field and 1+ years of progressive quality assurance experience in food manufacturing. OR HS/GED and 6+ years progressive Quality Assurance leadership experience in food manufacturing.
• Strong knowledge of Quality Management principles, food regulation and food operations.
• Minimum 2 + years of supervisory leadership experience
• Computer skills in MS Office Suite, Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
Preferred Experience/Education:
• Masters Degree in Food/Dairy Science or related field.
Job Duties Include:
• Must be skilled in identification of root cause analysis to improve quality and productivity of plant operation; demonstrated ability to lead and drive change at all levels in the plant with manager, peers, supervisory staff as well as line employees.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to teach, coach and implement quality programs.
• Must be able to effectively communicate and positively interact at the line and plant management level; and set and maintain high goals and standards of performance for self, peers, direct reports, and the plant.
• Requires strong analytical problem-solving skills, working knowledge of statistics and process improvement, and a clear understanding of HACCP, sanitation, food safety and customer awareness to promote the plant competitive advantage in today’s business environment.
About Land O’Lakes, Inc.
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