Quality and Food Safety Supervisor

Base pay range

$60,000.00/yr - $70,000.00/yr

Quality and Food Safety Supervisor

Janesville, WI (5 days a week onsite – relocation assistance available)

$65k+ depending on experience

The Quality and Food Safety Supervisor supports the manufacturing process by focusing the Quality Assurance Team’s efforts to ensure product specifications meet or exceed customer quality and food safety requirements. Acting in a liaison role between the QA Manager and QA Technicians, this hands‑on role serves as the day‑to‑day practitioner and executor of quality and food safety practices throughout the processing facility.

This position ensures that critical laboratory procedures, product inspections, and packaging audits are complete and accurate while working to ensure that our candy products meet or surpass strict quality guidelines to keep our customers happy. Must be a decisive trouble‑shooter capable of making data‑driven decisions as warranted.

• Under general guidance from the QA Manager, actively monitor plant QA activities, raw ingredients and finished goods for compliance with quality and food safety policies including regulatory compliance, HACCP, GMP’s and SQF.
• Oversee and/or perform a variety of analytic tests and audits to ensure ingredients, finished products and packaging comply with order specifications, quality/food safety policies and HACCP, GMP’s and SQF compliance.
• Ensure that various required food quality and safety processes and analytic tests are completed and test results recorded in compliance with record‑keeping policies and requirements.
• Lead and coordinate personnel performing the inspection and sampling of ingredients and final products to ensure inspections are done correctly, timely, and correct decisions are made.
• Ensure the day‑to‑day quality hold activities are performed and reported in a proficient manner including corrective action reporting and documentation.
• Ensure raw materials and finished product holds and releases are in a timely manner.
• Provide supervisory support, mentorship and direction for up to six QA Technicians.
• Communicate and collaborate with internal departments as warranted to ensure needed product or packaging adjustments are enacted.

• Science related bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience in a quality or regulatory compliance environment.
• Knowledge/experience with HAACP, GMP, Food Defense and SQF requirements.
• Prior supervisory experience strongly preferred.
• Strong employee relations, interpersonal and verbal/written communication skills.
• Strong organizational, problem solving, planning and process skills.
• Demonstrated proficiency with MS Office suite, especially Excel.

• Experience in a food manufacturing environment or similar industry preferred.
• Bilingual in Spanish a plus.

• Performance of supervisory and leadership activities for up to six QA Technicians.

Not Applicable

Full-time

Management and Manufacturing

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