Job Summary Required Qualifications and Skills
We are seeking a QA Supervisor (food industry) for a direct hire opportunity. This role is ideal for a quality professional with strong food safety, regulatory compliance, and team leadership experience who is ready to oversee daily QA/QC operations in a fast-paced production environment.
The QA Supervisor will play a key role in maintaining product quality, supporting audit readiness, leading quality personnel, and driving continuous improvement across food safety and quality systems. This opportunity offers long-term stability, meaningful responsibility, and the chance to work with cross-functional teams that value quality, compliance, teamwork, and operational excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Supervise daily QA Lab activities, Quality Control functions, product inspections, testing programs, and quality verification processes throughout production.
- Plan, organize, and schedule QA/QC departmental activities to maximize the effective use of personnel, equipment, and materials.
- Manage hold and release procedures for finished products, in-process materials, and samples, including shelf-life studies and related documentation.
- Maintain and improve food safety and quality programs, including FSMS, HACCP, pest control, food defense, allergen control, GMPs, and QA/QC procedures.
- Lead, train, coach, and evaluate QA and QC personnel while enforcing company policies, procedures, and safety standards.
- Investigate non-conformances, customer complaints, and quality issues using quality metrics, statistical methods, root cause analysis, and corrective actions.
Compensation and Benefits
- Salary range: $80,000 to $90,000 per year.
- Job type: Direct hire.
- Supervise QA Lab and Quality Control activities in a food manufacturing production environment.
- Maintain food safety, quality, regulatory, and audit readiness programs.
- Lead investigations, corrective actions, quality reporting, and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Train, coach, and develop QA and QC team members.
- Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Biology, or a closely related scientific field.
- Minimum of 3 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment.
- Experience in Quality Assurance, Quality Control, food safety systems, and regulatory compliance.
- Strong working knowledge of HACCP principles, GMPs, Food Safety Management Systems, and food manufacturing processes.
- Experience using statistical methods to support investigations, evaluate data, and assess process performance.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint.
- Strong leadership, organization, communication, decision-making, problem-solving, and time management skills.
- High attention to detail with the ability to manage documentation, quality records, audits, and compliance requirements.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3 to 5 years of progressively responsible experience in food manufacturing, packaging, and quality assurance.
- HACCP Certification.
- PCQI Certification.
- Experience working in an FSSC 22000-certified facility.
- Bilingual English and Spanish skills.
- Experience supporting regulatory audits and customer audits.
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