Job description
Position Objective:
The QA Supervisor is a key member of the quality team and is accountable for the company’s overall food safety and quality program, ensuring production of safe and high-quality bakery products for our customers. This individual is responsible for ensuring food safety and sanitation standards are in full compliance with all regulatory bodies, food certification requirements and company standards. The QA Manager role is responsible for the development, documentation, and implementation of the Quality Assurance systems and programs. This individual will be the champion of establishing company-wide food safety and quality culture, proactively eliminating barriers to this end and reinforcing positive behaviors.

Essential Functions:

• Responsible to ensure the highest quality standards and good relations are maintained with customers, regulatory agencies and certifying bodies, such as FDA, OSHA, and SQF
• Apply knowledge of food quality, controls, packaging, and labeling to ensure full compliance in a fresh and frozen food environment along with raw materials.
• Prepare and monitor QA procedures.
• Prepare regular reports and establish daily accomplishments and efforts toward meeting objectives
• Provide training and motivation to team members, using recognition, and positive feedback. Give direction based upon the daily production plan and related product specs, GMP’s, HACCP, CCP’s, and QA-related SOP's/ SSOP’s.
• Actively coach, train and develop team members to build confidence and implement process control methods for proper specs and sanitation.
• Work closely with the processing team to document proper date codes, samples, and trials.
• Conduct pre-screening of potential ingredient suppliers.
• Assess supplier performance via QA specifications.
• Ensure environmental monitoring program meets or exceeds the FDA guidance on preventive controls.
• Assist in facility food safety internal audits as well as manage third-party audits. Audit and approve, with the appropriate management personnel, all co-packers, suppliers, and storage facilities.
• Verify food safety and quality within the operation and from supplier factories from raw material stage to finished product.
• Monitor and report raw material and processing deviations to standards.
• Verify texture, visual quality, shelf life, extended shelf life, temperature logs, packing alternatives, etc.
• Deliver and implement procedures to maintain proper protocol.

Skills/Competencies:

• Able to work unsupervised and manage independently with strong initiative
• Have strong communication skills and proficiency in English reading and writing
• Must be flexible with work hours and days when needed
• Experience in monitoring and improving internal controls and processes

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (Preferred), or equivalent experience

Experience:

• Must be an SQF practitioner
• Food safety: 1 year (Required)