Quality Assurance Supervisor

• Compensation: USD 61,625 - USD 82,700 - yearly

Headquartered in Cordova, TN, Stratas Foods is a 50/50 joint venture formed in October 2008 between ACH Food Companies and Archer Daniels Midland Company. Stratas Foods is built on the combined strengths and expertise of these two great parent companies, developed over more than 200 years of combined experience. Stratas will continue to build on this foundation of excellence by providing value-added, branded, and custom-formulated fats and oils solutions to the food service, food ingredient, and retail sectors.

At Stratas Foods, we are committed to being the most valued supplier of fats, oils, dressings, mayonnaise, and salad dressings to the private label retail bottled oils market in the United States.

Manufacturing facilities are located in Dallas and Houston, TX;
Decatur and Quincy, IL;
Englewood and Hillside, NJ;
Fresno, CA;
Nashville, TN; and Valdosta, GA. Corporate offices are located in Memphis, TN. We are committed to maintaining a progressive workplace by utilizing the ideas, skills, and talents of all our employees. We strive to make Stratas Foods a great place to work and are building a team capable of meeting our business goals.

This position is responsible for supervising quality assurance activities across multiple shifts, including laboratory operations, quality testing, inspections, and verification of plant programs. The QA Supervisor works closely with Production and all other departments to ensure quality and food safety programs, procedures, and standards are consistently followed. This role provides direction, oversight, and support to QA personnel across three shifts, promotes accountability and effective communication, and helps identify and address quality issues to ensure the production of safe, consistent, and high-quality products.

• 1.Supervise and provide direction to QA personnel across multiple shifts to ensure consistent execution of quality and food safety requirements.
• 2.Plan and coordinate daily QA activities, staffing, coverage, priorities, and shift assignments.
• 3.Provide timely communication to QA and plant leadership regarding significant quality, food safety, or production concerns.
• 4.Proactively work with plant and QA leadership to address areas needing improvement
• 5.Analyze lab needs from training, staffing, and equipment needs
• 6.Maintain strong communication between QA shifts to ensure issues, priorities, and follow-up activities are effectively communicated.
• 7.Review and approve direct report timecards
• 8.Identify quality and food safety issues, initiate appropriate containment, and ensure timely escalation when necessary.
• 9.Investigate deviations, review batch sheets, etc., approval of deviation if warranted
• 10.Represent the QA department, as needed by the QA Manager during audits, inspections and meetings
• 11.Monitor production activities and verify compliance with product specifications, GMPs, food safety requirements, and company procedures.
• 12.Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair of lab equipment
• 13.Product disposition in M3 (ERP System)
• 14. Responsible for lab safety
• 15.Monitor quality trends and use data to identify opportunities for improvement
• 16.Support continuous improvement initiatives that reduce quality incidents, customer complaints, waste, and repeat issues.
• 17.Schedule preventative maintenance (PMs) for lab equipment, DU 620, Minispec, NIR, etc.
• 18.Ensure effective shift handoffs and continuity of QA coverage across all operating shifts.
• 19. Inform QA and production teams are aware of new product specifications or changes to existing
• 20.Write new procedures and update procedure books
• 21.Participate in customer and third party audits
• 22.Determine lab equipment needs; write AFEs when needed
• 23.Review line paperwork (weight sheets, line QA, and metal detection includes HACCP sign off)
• 24.Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

• 1.Must possess strong leadership ability and self motivation
• 2.Strong organizational skills to maintain multiple programs
• 3.Good communication skills and teamwork in working with plant personnel to accomplish goals
• 4.Able to set goals and achieve them with regards to safety, quality, and production
• 5.Hold QA personnel accountable for completing assigned responsibilities and following established procedures.
• 6.Must be able to drive consistency in QA expectations and practices across all shifts.

Education
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High School diploma is required with…