Quality Assurance Supervisor - 21382

Quality Assurance Supervisor - TalentZök

OVERVIEW

Are you looking for a new career opportunity with an exciting company?! Then we've got the right team for you! In this role, you're responsible for the duties listed below.

Immediate opening for a Quality Assurance Supervisor in Helm, CA who possesses:

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Quality Management, Agriculture, or related field
• 5+ years of Quality Assurance or Quality Control experience within food, agriculture, fertilizer, chemical, or manufacturing environments
• Prior leadership or supervisory experience
• Bilingual English/Spanish skills
• Experience supporting audits, regulatory compliance, quality documentation, and plant quality processes

FULL DESCRIPTION: We are seeking a Quality Assurance Supervisor to support quality assurance, quality control, compliance, documentation, plant inspections, sanitation checks, sampling, and team supervision within a manufacturing environment. This permanent, onsite role is responsible for overseeing QC leads and technicians, supporting both shifts, maintaining quality records, assisting with regulatory and customer audits, supporting FDA and quality standards, and helping ensure products meet internal and external requirements. The ideal candidate will have QA/QC experience in food, agriculture, fertilizer, chemical, or manufacturing environments, strong leadership skills, bilingual English/Spanish communication skills, and the ability to balance plant-floor quality oversight with detailed paperwork and compliance responsibilities.

The selected candidate will be responsible for:

• Supervising Quality Assurance and Quality Control team members, including QC leads and technicians
• Providing leadership, direction, coaching, and support to quality staff across multiple shifts
• Supporting day-to-day plant quality activities
• Walking the plant floor to monitor quality, sanitation, safety, and compliance expectations
• Completing routine quality rounds with sanitation and production teams
• Supporting product sampling activities, including sampling tote bags and related materials as needed
• Reviewing, maintaining, and completing quality documentation and required paperwork
• Supporting FDA regulations, quality standards, internal procedures, and audit requirements
• Assisting with regulatory, customer, and internal audits
• Supporting the QA Manager with audit preparation, documentation, follow-up, and corrective actions
• Ensuring quality processes are followed throughout manufacturing and production activities
• Helping maintain compliance with applicable food, agriculture, fertilizer, chemical, manufacturing, and quality requirements
• Monitoring team performance and helping ensure quality tasks are completed accurately and on time
• Supporting both day and night shift quality operations as needed
• Communicating quality concerns, documentation needs, and compliance updates to management
• Identifying quality issues, process gaps, nonconformances, and opportunities for improvement
• Supporting corrective action and continuous improvement efforts
• Partnering with production, sanitation, operations, and management teams
• Training or supporting team members on quality procedures, documentation, and compliance expectations
• Maintaining organized, accurate, and audit-ready quality records
• Traveling to other company facilities as needed for training or support
• Supporting longer hours during audit periods or critical quality needs as required
• Performing other duties as assigned

The selected candidate will also possess:

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, Quality Management, Agriculture, or related field required
• 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance or Quality Control preferred
• 4+ years of strong, directly related QA/QC experience may be considered
• Experience in food, agriculture, fertilizer, chemical, beverage, or manufacturing environments required
• Manufacturing background required
• Prior leadership or supervisory experience required
• Experience supervising leads, technicians, or quality team members preferred
• Bilingual English/Spanish skills required
• Experience supporting regulatory compliance required
• FDA regulatory experience preferred
• Audit support experience required
• Experience maintaining quality paperwork, records, and documentation required
• Experience with sanitation rounds, plant inspections, or production floor quality checks preferred
• Sampling experience preferred
• Ability to oversee quality activities across multiple shifts required
• Ability to support day and night shift teams as needed
• Strong organization skills required
• Strong written and verbal communication skills required
• Strong attention to detail required
• Ability to work with production, sanitation, operations, quality, and leadership teams
• Ability to identify issues and support corrective action
• Ability to maintain professionalism and accuracy in a fast-paced manufacturing environment
• Ability to work onsite in Helm, CA
• Ability to travel to other facilities for training or support as needed
• Ability to work extended hours during audits or critical quality needs as required
• Ability to support a full-time, permanent opportunity
• No sponsorship available

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to stand, walk, bend, reach, and move throughout production, sanitation, warehouse, quality, and plant areas as needed
• Ability to sit and work at a computer for extended periods while reviewing quality records, audit documents, reports, procedures, and compliance information
• Ability to use hands and fingers for typing, documentation, sampling support, recordkeeping, inspection activities, and standard quality tasks
• Ability to review quality documentation, production records, audit materials, regulatory information, labels, samples, reports, and computer screens as needed
• Ability to visually inspect plant areas, product, materials, sanitation conditions, packaging, labels, equipment areas, and quality-related items for accuracy and compliance
• Ability to occasionally lift, carry, push, pull, or move standard quality materials, samples, documents, supplies, or plant items as needed
• Ability to work around manufacturing equipment, production activity, sanitation processes, raw materials, finished goods, and standard plant conditions
• Ability to wear required PPE and follow all safety, sanitation, quality, plant, and regulatory procedures
• Ability to maintain focus, accuracy, and attention to detail while supporting quality operations, audits, and plant-floor compliance

Salary Range: $80,000 to $105,000/year plus performance-based bonus potential

More information can be found at www.talentzok.com.

TalentZok was founded in 2008 and has been repeatedly recognized as one of San Diego County's fastest growing businesses. In 2025, we were named Business Journal's 'Best Places to Work'. Even as our competitors are scaling back and laying off staff, Simply Biotech is expanding to new markets and hiring additional staff in existing offices.