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Senior Quality Assurance Supervisor – Food Manufacturing
Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited
🇺🇸 United States
On-site
Senior
5 days ago
$80,000 – $90,000 / year
- food safety
- CAPA
- ERP
- Change Management
5 days ago
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Execution and Maintenance Quality, Food Safety and Food Quality Programs: Partners with the site food quality and food safety teams to actively apply living Food Safety, Food Quality plans and the prerequisite programs. Utilizes operational excellence processes as a platform to drive priorities and change. Maintains site in audit ready state.
- Prioritizing Compliance, KPI's, Operational Excellence: Responsible for performance and KPIs through auditing, execution, follow-ups. Demonstrates ability to prioritize and bring visibility to non-conformances and key drivers impacting KPI's, assign actions to contain, correct, prevent. Drives root cause analysis, quality commercialization reviews including specification reviews. Incorporates operational excellence in to ways of working.
- Talent Management and Development for Quality, and Food Safety Teams– Provides technical expertise and is accountable for a high functioning quality tam. Partners with cross functional groups to ensure structured onboarding is implemented cross functionally at site. Ensures ongoing training is structures to drive success.
- Escalated Issue Management – Responsible for ensuring food safety and quality, and or customer issues are escalated for visibility and for resources.
- Establishes a Culture of Quality and Systems – Drives the adoption of systems tools and skill development within the function. Uses tools to drive Quality Culture initiatives at the sites,
- Partnership with site leaders and cross functional partners for goal setting, decision-making alignment, and training and development needs
- Supports Supply Chain, Learning and Development, and Commercialization functions as needed.
- Responsible for development and performance of the site quality team
- Builds strong cross functional relationships and demonstrates ability to effectively influence site strategy & execution
- Develops a culture that drives quality improvements and efficiently interfaces with operational excellence processes
- Deliver and keep current training programs focused on food safety and quality.
- Communicate effectively with internal and external customers.
- Timely escalation and communication of food safety, quality, financial issues
- Effectively cascade goals using tools such as SMART goals. Aligns with teams on standard work.
- Motivates and builds team strength
- Responsible for the effective application of site Product Safety, Product Quality and prerequisite systems. Ensure these systems effectively interface with change control and commercialization processes.
- Strong ability to root cause issues and prevent recurrence via persistent pursuit of higher hierarchical levels of control than administrative, including but not limited to formula, engineering, and elimination strategies.
- Responsible for applying an effective internal audit program and that corrective actions are completed
- Brings visibility to priorities that have largest positive impact on key performance indicators and metrics including but not limited to; Inspection/Compliance performance, First Pass Quality, Complaints, Disposals, Inventory Health, Customer Responsiveness, CAPA closure and effectiveness, systems performance, environmental & sanitation performance.
- Ensures that response to customers, inspectors and auditors are professional, timely, and in scope.
- Collaborates with R&D, Production, and commercial teams in the development and preparation for production of new Products, Processes, and Equipment to support new product/customer launches. Ensuring the process quantifies the probability of success and clearly communicates the risks and proposed mitigations as an outcome of first-time makes.
- Interface with operational excellence programs to maximize effectiveness
- Leads preparation for customer visits and external audit.
- Ability to become site power user for ERP & LIMS systems.
- Operated in an FDA regulated environment, ideally food or dietary supplement
- Assess and mitigate food safety, regulatory, and cost risks.
- Apply sanitation principles effectively.
- Effective project manager that knows how to prioritize and meet deadlines
- Execution of CAPA and Customer Complaint system.
- Bachelor's degree in relevant field or other relevant work experience.
- Team Leadership Experience.
- Project Management & Change Management Experience.
- 2+ years of experience in food, supplement, or related industry.
- Familiarity with FDA.
- GFSI Scheme (i.e. SQF, BRC).
- Certification focused on Quality and Food Safety for Supply Chain requirement: PCQI.
- Ability to lift 50 lbs.; required to stand, walk, sit, and reach.
Senior Quality Assurance Supervisor – Food Manufacturing · Macpower Digital Assets Edge Private Limited