Job Title: QUALITY ASSURANCE SUPERVISOR 

Department: Quality
Assurance 

Reports To: QA Manager 

FLSA Status: Salary 

Salary Range: 

SUMMARY:  

This position is responsible for hiring, training,
monitoring, and administering the job duties for QA hourly personnel. This
includes monitoring and maintaining Quality Assurance programs to verify that
product specifications are met, communicating with all levels of management and
the USDA, and ensuring compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. This
position also requires outlining product deficiencies and suggested
corrections, tracking corrective actions to the customer, government, and QA
inspections until discrepancies are resolved, and directing and scheduling
laboratory and in-plant quality assurance testing as required on a shift basis.
 

Other duties include assisting in the development of
analytical skills used to evaluate problems and provide sound technical advise
to resolve situations, working on special projects as assigned by the QA
Manager (i.e. writing procedures, capability studies, records organization,
computer application, and implementation), and performing other
responsibilities as the need arises. This position is responsible for food
safety, food quality, and legality. 

Essential Duties &
Responsibilities:   

• Lead integration of the current quality
   assurance and food safety processes into one integrated process: standard
   operating procedures (SOPs), incoming ingredient inspections, product
   scoring, food safety audits, field complaints, standardized work
   instructions.  
• Develop and maintain systems to assure
   facility meets all System requirements including Commitment, Document
   Control and Records, Specifications, Attaining Food Safety, Verification,
   Product Identification Trace and Recall, Incident Management, Food Safety
   Fundamentals - Building and Equipment Design and Construction, and Food
   Safety Fundamentals - Pre-requisite Programs.  
• Manage finished product evaluation
   system and provide leadership to drive improvements in key
   customer/consumer Quality attributes.  
• Train personnel and maintain all
   required training records on critical food safety and quality
   requirements. 

 · Oversee monitoring, verification, and validation activities to
ensure that all products leaving the facility meet the facility Food Safety and
Quality Plans.  

• Provide guidance and leadership in
   situations where deviations have occurred or a potential risk has been
   identified related to food safety and/or quality attributes.  
• Reassess plan(s) when ever there is a
   change to program, process, procedure, ingredient, equipment, industry
   philosophy, technology, etc.  
• Other duties as assigned by QA Manager. 

REQUIREMENTS: 

Education: High School Diploma or GED;
Bachelors degree from a four year college or university preferred.  

Experience: One plus years related
experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of experience and
education.  

Computer Skills: Basic computer skills. For
example, generating simple letters, spreadsheets, or creating simple queries.  

Communication Skills: Should have good written
and verbal communication skills.  

Supervisory Skills: This position is
responsible for supervising a group of personnel who perform somewhat identical
and related tasks or activities. 

NOTE: This job specification should not be
construed to imply that these requirements are the exclusive standards of the
position. Incumbents will follow any
other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as may be required by
their supervisor. 

I have read the attached job description for this
position and I believe I can perform the essential functions of the position with or
without a reasonable accommodation.