Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor

Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor

Precise Resource, Inc. is a leading privately held Women's Business Enterprise specializing in Executive Search, Recruiting, and staff augmentation services for Fortune 1000 clients across the United States. One of our more prestigious clients has requested assistance in seeking a Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor ( FSQA) to join their growing organization.

With a long history of innovation in the food industry, our client, a global leader, partners with some of the world’s biggest brands to bring high-quality meat and food products to tables worldwide. From sourcing and processing to custom food solutions, they combine cutting-edge technology with a commitment to sustainability and food safety. What sets them apart is their ability to adapt, delivering consistent, scalable results while staying flexible enough to meet each customer's unique needs. It’s a place where long-term relationships and a passion for quality drive everything they do.

What you will be doing:

We're looking for a strong, safety-minded leader to oversee the team responsible for producing a wide range of food products. In this role, you'll make sure everything is done by the book; ensuring our client’s operations meet the highest standards for food safety, quality, and compliance with company policies, customer expectations, and government regulations.

If you’re passionate about safe, high-quality food and know how to lead a team to get results without cutting corners, this could be a great fit.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop, implement, and maintain the HACCP program, including record keeping, logs, trend reporting, and validation testing schedules.
• Maintain and oversee all HACCP/FOOD Safety record keeping.
• Conduct annual HACCP validations, reassessments, and initial validations for new products.
• Conduct HACCP and GMP/SSOP training for the HACCP team.
• Interact with USDA inspector on HACCP / SSOP-related issues. Ensure that any follow-up concerns are communicated back to QA Leader
• Perform Pre-shipment review of all CCP documentation.
• Responsible for all supervisory activities including, but not limited to, scheduling, performance, hiring, discipline, coaching, training and development and termination recommendations.
• Facilitate transitions between shifts and seamless handoffs and communicate key information to peers, team members and Production Management
• Maintain a safe work environment at all times by having safe work instructions, practices, and procedures in place for all positions and ensuring that employees are trained to understand and comply with those procedures. Apply corrective action consistently when required.
• Continuously monitor, through subordinates, plant operations to ensure compliance with all quality and food safety programs through regular adherence to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s), performance of sanitation audits, food safety checks (HACCP), and product quality checks conducted according to organization policies. Actively participate in prevention and correction of quality-related errors.
• Participate in continuous improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities and recommending changes within own area of responsibility
• Prepare a variety of routine and special reports that document testing activities, test results, and operational issues involving product quality and safety such as swab tests, finished product tests, and HACCP audits.
• Administer the product recall program and disposition of returned products.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, or a related field, or equivalent amount of food industry experience strongly preferred.
• 1-2 years of related experience is preferred.
• Planning, organizing, coordinating, and leadership skills.
• Computer skills, including proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
• Ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively both written and verbally.
• Ability to work in conditions, which include multiple, and sometimes conflicting priorities, extended work schedules, and specific time constraints.
• Additionally, candidate must interact well with other employees, work overtime as needed, be able to work in food manufacturing facility and adhere to all Good Manufacturing Practices.

Environment

• The position requires the physical agility to continuously lift up to 15 pounds, bend, squat, push, pull, stretch/reach, use hands or fingers, talk, hear, feel objects, tools, controls, and stand/walk on concrete flooring.
• Work can be performed within a manufacturing plant environment with noise, extreme temperatures, and significant movement of powered equipment, people, and conveyors.
• Work is generally performed within a business professional office environment, with standard office equipment available.
• Position requires the physical ability to stand/walk for the required work hour.

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