Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor-2nd Shift

Position summary: The Compliance Supervisor’s role is to support, understand and engage the quality processes, challenging the team to meet rigorous standards of quality.  The candidate requires knowledge of FDA, USDA, GFSI, NAFTA and other industry guidelines for Safe, Quality Food Production and documentation methods to meet requirements.  Top priority is meeting customer’s expectations by organized documentation, maintaining customer website data, reporting of data collected and further development of process specifications/illustrations to support Café Valley’s continuous improvements.

This Supervisor will be work 2nd shift

The ideal candidate will have the 6 skills listed below:
Computer Skills-Word, Excel, and the ability to learn data collection applications.
Excellence attendance
Organization Skills
Teamwork abilities
Capable of working individually.

ResponsibilitiesEssential functions and responsibilities:
Effectively manage day to day quality with review of quality records and provide direction for plant and product continuous improvement.
Effectively communicate on a technical basis with management, internal and external customers.
Review and coordinate response and corrective action with team on customer complaints.
Organize and maintain documentation for the ongoing implementation of Café Valley’s GFSI programs, and customer specific audit requirements.
Further develop training programs for site specific food safety and product process training.
Coordinate scheduling of plant activities to ensure compliance with all regulatory and customer specific requirements.   Maintain current on industry trends for compliance programs and transitioning plant to be compliance.
Ensure that all aspects of HACCP plan development, documentation and control are in place.
Control and manage the review of supplier issues with supply chain compliance to Café Valley standards and further development of site standards including, vulnerability assessments, NAFTA, HTS codes, and CofA’s, COO’s, Allergen Statements
Establish validations for current programs and further develop a frequency for establishing validation records.
Effectively lead Mock Recalls and follow up with areas of opportunity identified in each exercise.
Manage current programs and further develop policies and procedures to keep ahead of changing requirements.
Develop the skills of team members.
Conduct weekly GMP and Food Safety audits with plant team, manage to the reports, follow up and closing of open items.
Perform related duties as needed by senior management team.Required SkillsQualifications required:
BS Degree in science-related discipline, or another bachelor’s degree with 5+ years’ experience in a quality assurance role in food manufacturing
Ability to lead and provide direction with guidance to plant team and display leadership in directing all aspects of quality in the areas of product evaluation, consumer complaints, documentation, reporting, Quality systems, HACCP, GFSI, FSMA, Environmental, Inventory, and all programs incorporated within the Quality Management System.
Must display exceptional understanding of sanitation practices and effectiveness of verification.
Qualifications desired:
Experience with Statistical Process Control analysis in food manufacturing environment
Familiarity with BRC, FSMA, NAFTA and HACCP
Progressive increase in quality assurance responsibility in batter and laminated products in a manufacturing environment.
Extensive knowledge in computer systems, excel, macros, pivots, access, and applications.
Extensive knowledge in microbiology/chemistry of food products