Quality Assurance Supervisor

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with quality technicians, production supervisors, and maintenance teams to ensure products meet established quality standards and processes.
• Monitor manufacturing lines, production areas, and mixing operations through routine observations and quality control checks.
• Maintain a strong presence on the production floors.
• Conduct and coordinate training for new employees.
• Verify completion and proper documentation of daily pre-operational inspections and HACCP checks.
• Represent Quality Assurance in daily production meetings and first-batch reviews for new products and process changes.
• Maintain and track laboratory schedules, including daily and monthly tasks.
• Provide coverage for QA technicians during absences, breaks, or vacations.
• Manage laboratory communications, including handling incoming requests.
• Assign and monitor daily responsibilities for lab technicians based on shift schedules.
• Communicate daily expectations across receiving, production, and shipping departments.
• Ensure all microbiological testing is completed and submitted to their party labs on time.
• Oversee new product processes, including receiving, documentation, certificate of analysis (COA), creation, testing releases, and coordination with shipping.
• Ensure accurate and timely data entry for all lab testing results.
• Manage laboratory supply inventory and ordering.
• Support label verification and approval processes.
• Investigate and resolve out of specification results.
• Oversee daily operations of the QA laboratory.
• Support regulatory inspections and special production runs.
• Lead QA daily stand-up meetings.
• Assist with warehouse transfers and shelf-life extension evaluations.
• Investigate customer complaints and support corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
• Auxiliary with third-party audits.
• Cook up lab maintenance and create work orders as needed.
• Report issues to QA leadership.

Qualifications & Skills

• 5+ years of experience in a quality leadership or supervisory role within food manufacturing.
• Proven leadership and team management experience with strong communication skills.
• Knowledge of quality assurance and quality control processes, methods, and equipment.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Self-motivated with the ability to work independently and as part of a team.

Pay

$60,000 - $85,000

Benefits Available

Not specified