Quality Supervisor (Day Shift)

This position will supervise and maintain a Quality Control Laboratory with staff capable of performing the analytical procedures required for the operation of a food processing plant, to verify the accuracy of results and the requirements to customer and company specifications, to maintain ISO and GLP documentation as required for all procedures and equipment.

Responsibilities

·Develop, document and maintain procedures as related but not limited to ISO laboratory procedures, GLP, QC, QA, Chemical, Physical and Microbiological Assay procedures.

·Participate in the audit process for ISO 9001, ISO 14001, GMP and GLP.

·Supervise and direct Quality Assurance Laboratory Technicians to ensure the accuracy, proficiency, and quality of the analytical tests conducted and to establish new technological processes.

·Ensure Management is informed regarding test results, product status, and noncompliance issues via reports, memos, verbal reports, etc.

·Provide technical assistance to the Plant Management as required and related to problems of chemical, physical, microbiological and applications.

·Maintain quarantine/availability status of intermediate and finished products.

·Evaluate develop, validate, document, and implement new procedures and technology for microbiological, physical, and chemical testing.

·Generate and assist the logistics and customer service department with certificate of analysis and any other batch release documentation required for shipment.

·Monitor laboratory equipment calibration, maintain calibration database in ISOQuest, assay results vs. known/accepted standards, laboratory supply inventories, and laboratory compliance with Good Laboratory Practices with assistance from Laboratory Coordinator.

·Monitor preventive controls and report noncompliance to appropriate management.

·Monitor QC related programs related to plant quality such as environmental monitoring, waterwater compliance, product result trending.

·Compliance with GLP, and other lab requirements.

·On time reporting of results and release of materials.

·Manage laboratory suppliers to improve costs.

Qualifications

BS Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or Chemistry

3-5 Years of leadership of a Quality Department

Strong Knowledge

·ISO Systems: ISO 9001, ISO 22000 (Quality, HACCP)

·Current Good Laboratory Practices for food and pharmaceutical excipients

·General office software tools and data processing (Word, Excel)

·Chemistry and Microbiology laboratory procedures