Quality Assurance Supervisor - Bourbonnais, IL - 1st shift

Salary: $75-80k

The Quality Assurance Supervisor is responsible for conducting verification and maintenance of the food safety and quality systems, supervising quality plant personnel, supporting/leading relevant regulatory food safety focused audits, and more.

Responsibilities

• Conduct verification and maintenance of the food safety and quality systems, hazard analysis and sanitation processes, prerequisite programs, manufacturing processes, plant environment and finished product.
• Collaborates with operations on the initiation of corrective action and preventative measures when necessary.
• Supervise Quality plant personnel across multiple shifts.
• Ensure adherence to corporate, regulatory, customer and facility food safety and quality requirements and completion of corrections and corrective actions.
• Support/lead relevant regulatory food safety focused audits.
• Act as a food safety team leader within the plant, assist the food safety team by supporting the food safety management system.
• Assist in the management of the food safety management system compliance to appropriate government regulations.
• Investigate and follow up on food safety incidents that occur in the plant to ensure they are properly reported and ensure corrective action and permanent corrections are taken.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Report Monthly/Weekly Quality metrics to staff and Management.
• Manage and report on the held product inventory.
• Coordinate and train employees in Quality-related processes, procedures, and refresher training.
• Supervise Quality employees at Mechanic and Franklin facilities, ensuring employees are properly supervised, trained, encouraged and productive.
• Manage Quality employee time off requests, scheduling, disciplinary action, performance reviews, and employee engagement in coordination with Quality Management and HR.
• Assistance to the QA Director/Manager regarding any special needs that may arise.
• Other duties as assigned by Manager which may not be reoccurring.

Qualifications and Education Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science or a related field
• Knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards
• Strong computer skills and Microsoft Office experience
• Experience GFSI auditing
• Experience working with ERP systems
• PCQI or HACCP Certification a plus
• ASQ Certification a plus
• Lean Six Sigma experience a plus
• Bilingual Spanish/English preferred