Quality Supervisor

Bringing Home the Dough

Salary: $56k per year.

Manages all Good Manufacturing, Food Safety and Quality issues within the plant. Responsible for the QC department and staff. Ensures that the bakery produces the highest quality products possible in a food safe environment.

Rising to the Challenge: Position Responsibilities

Responsibilities and accountabilities include, but not limited to:

• Communicate with all plant management, quality control staff and Corporate Technical Service Director concerning all pertinent food safety and quality issues.
• Maintain a monthly log of all documented GMP violations and corrective actions taken.
• Communicate to the Director of Plant Operations whenever a regulatory inspector or outside customer inspector arrives at the plant. Report results of all inspections upon completion.
• Responsible to maintain a foreign material log to include all foreign materials, specific location where the item was located, date and time; in addition to specific metal detector information and particles.
• Responsible for the communication and implementation of Corporate Good Manufacturing Policies and Guidelines. To include documentation of yearly employee GMP, HACCP training and bi-annual mock recalls with timely, 98+% tracking results
• Responsible for the communication and implementation of all Corporate Quality Policies. Ensure the recordkeeping and retention of ingredient statements, MSDS, HACCP, kosher and allergen documents, and foreign materials.
• Maintain Quality Manual as outlined in the 2001 AIB Consolidated Standards for Food Safety. Conduct employee training as needed.
• Responsible for outside service/vendor compliance of all Corporate Quality Policies, GMP’s and AIB Standards.
• Ensure facility compliance of all Corporate Quality Policies and AIB Standards of all plant departments by monitoring and spot-checking – logs, records, etc. Coordinate and verify GMP Food Safety Self Inspection Audits are completed each period and results distributed to all departments.
• Responsible for daily product cuttings and record keeping on all shifts and results communicated to plant management team. Ensure disposition of “Hold” & “Release” product is authorized in accordance with Corporate Quality Policies and Procedures.
• Responsible for tracking all product complaints, follow up with customers and reporting all findings to the plant president and manufacturing director.
• Responsible for sending corporate the update of all new and current formula’s for process of the nutritional panels.
• Responsible for entry in SAP for bill of materials and routings on new products and formula changes.
• Communicate all microbiological issues and all contamination in accordance with Corporate Quality Policies. Responsible for product shipping dates to correspond with microbiological results.
• Coordinate product samples that are sent to outside testing facilities and the correct disposition of the sampled products using the outside test results.
• Maintain cleanliness of work area.
• Ensure compliance with all company policies and procedures (EEO, Harassment, Safety, etc.).
• Performa other duties which are deemed by management to be an integral part of the job, including but not limited to fulfillment of work schedules, adherence to attendance policies, and other applicable operating rules, policies and procedures

Knead to Know: Preferred Qualifications

5+ years of plant quality assurance / control experience in the food industry -including 1-2 years in a supervisory role.

Additional Ingredients: Essential Job Requirements

B.S. Food Science, Food Technology, Cereal Chemistry, Chemistry, or related discipline