What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quality Supervisor position at WHITEBRIDGE PET BRANDS CORPORATE?
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Description
Whitebridge Pet Brands (WPB) is hiring a Quality Assurance Supervisor for our Joplin, MO manufacturing facility. This position is responsible for managing the daily execution of the various components of the food safety and quality programs in place. The QA Supervisor will also be responsible for supervising the lab technicians and sanitation employees. The Quality Assurance Supervisor role is an integral part of the quality performance of the pet treat manufacturing facility.
Key Responsibilities:
- Responsible for training and expanding talent of lab technicians and sanitation staff ensuring team is completed duties as assigned with accuracy.
- Ensure utilization of Quality and Food Safey Programs are being used and followed; documenting and communicating to proper team members necessary information.
- Maintain finished product and raw product specifications to ensure materials compliance.
- Work with management to develop product testing frequencies and reporting of trends to compliance specifications.
- Participate in all aspects of internal audits to verify compliance and prerequisites to programs and procedures.
- Work with operations to help make product acceptability decisions and process decisions that affect the quality and food safety of products.
- Understand the voice of the consumer based on consumer data.
- Partner with management to identify and implement internal control measures, audit needs and training material to prevent foreign material adulteration.
- Manage traceability process to ensure that the system is effective in tracing product and materials.
- Responsible for ensuring that the lab and chemical supplies are maintained.
- Ensure equipment is calibrated correctly.
- Adhere to all food safety, quality, personnel safety and GMP procedures throughout facility.
Qualifications
- Previous supervisory experience in food manufacturing.
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field.
- Can demonstrate computer literacy with Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Experience with food manufacturing tests such as but not limited to: water activity, moisture, residual oxygen, leak detection, micro swab/test, pH, NIR, etc)
- Certifications for: HACCP; FSPCA/PCQI and SQF Practitioner
- Effective interpersonal skills.
- Organized and effective time management.
- Ability to sit, climb or balance; stoop, kneel crouch and crawl.
- Ability to work in and tolerate variable temperatures under between 50 and 90 degrees.
- Ability to lift or move up to 50 lbs.
- Work on elevated work spaces: ladder, lift box or scissor lift.
What can Whitebridge Pet Brand offer me?
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Disability
- Life Insurance
- 401(k)
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Feed Program
Who is Whitebridge Pet Brands?
At Whitebridge, our goal is to help people bring health and happiness to pets through better nutrition which we believe is natural and minimally processed foods, complements, treats, and supplements, formulated to the specific needs of dogs and cats. Better Together is the foundation and at the heart of everything we do as a company.
We manufacture and market Natural Health Nutrition Pet Products for dogs and cats. Our brands include Tiki Pets®, Tiki Cat Veterinary Solutions™, Buddy Biscuits®, Cloud Star®, Dogswell®, and Grizzly®. Brands distributed outside North America include Schesir®, Stuzzy® and ADoC®.
In North America, our products are sold in more than 8,000 pet stores and veterinary hospitals, in major retailers such as Petco, PetSmart, Walmart and Target, and online at Chewy.com and Amazon.com. We are growing globally, with distribution in over twenty-five countries around the world.