Quality Assurance Supervisor - PM Shift

Responsibilities

• Maintain and enforce corporate quality assurance programs, standards, and goals in conjunction with outside laboratories and contractors as needed.
• Manage corporate HACCP, HARPC, Organic, Recall/Withdrawal, SSOP, SQF, and GMP Programs including all prerequisites.
• Act as a facility SQF Practitioner to ensure plant is SQF audit ready every day.
• Maintain SQF program and train associates to meet required code.
• Manage all third-party audits and any regulatory inspections including FDA, State Health, County Health.
• Manage raw material program (including water) to ensure all raw materials meet specification for quality and safety.
• Maintain environmental sampling program to seek out potential risk, find and eliminate risk, according to policy.
• Record, review and maintain all data obtained during quality assurance activities to ensure consistency with policies and procedures.
• Oversee all activities in the laboratory, ensure good laboratory practices and administer testing procedures.
• Utilize laboratory database to monitor and trend results to ensure products meet specification.
• Review complaint data and investigate consumer product inquiries as needed.
• Develop new approaches to solve problems identified during quality assurance activities and make recommendations to management regarding changes.
• Cook up to date with government and industry regulatory & quality assurance codes and standards.
• Act as liaison between quality auditors and regulatory inspectors. Ensure execution of corrective action plans with for quality and sanitation standards.
• Uphold and manage team participation in all Corporate Responsibility programs including recycling, social advocacy and MMAD volunteering opportunities.

Qualifications

• All applicants must have a bachelor’s degree in biology, Food Science, or Chemistry.
• All applicants must have two to four years of Quality and Management experience and show good leadership skills.
• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of Internet software and MS Office Suite.