QA Supervisor Job Sauk Rapids area,Minnesota USA,Quality Assurance

Description

Position: QA Supervisor

Leader: Christine Dockendorf

Location: Sauk Rapids Plant

Posting Date: 10/7/26

Department: QA

About the Company

For over 60 years, Branding Iron Holdings (“BIH”) has been producing high quality beef and pork products while delivering customized solutions to the food service and retail trade industries. With an eye to the future, BIH has put a strong focus on building internal talent and on leveraging unique product lines and national distribution to drive continued growth. Guided by a strong set of core values (Respect, Integrity and Stewardship), reflecting a culture of servant leadership at every level, BIH’s team works hard to foster a culture that embraces and builds meaningful, long-term relationships with both employees and its customer base.

Position

Summary

Supervises quality assurance and food safety operations. Ensures that products meet or exceed all requirements critical for product safety, legal compliance, regulatory compliance, and quality. Additional responsibilities involve maintaining a food safety culture, assisting the development, validation and maintaining Food Safety and Food Quality systems consistent with the SQF Code certification requirements.

Job Functions

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or an essential function of the position

Responsibilities

Ensure quality standards have been met.

Complete HACCP, SSOP and other department paperwork.

Support BIH’s GMPs and SSOPs and follow up with any deficiencies.

Perform daily inspections required of QA Techs when needed.

Assure equipment is properly calibrated and documented.

Coordinate samples to outside laboratory.

Perform monthly GMP audits and document findings.

Complete other inspections as assigned.

Provide training and assistance to QA Techs.

Support the QA Manager with any assigned tasks.

Possess a good understanding of food safety rules and regulations.

Have the ability to communicate the rules and regulations to the QA Techs.

Be aware of customer specifications and needs to assure correct labels, date codes etc. are in place.

Knowledge of SQF code and implementation at BIH, Sauk Rapids.

Be a Member of the HAACP team.

Responsible for releasing product from USDA testing in ROSS.

Act as a qualified backup SQF practitioner.

Assist in the SQF Audit as well as any other customer audits.

Assist in the generation of UPC and nutritional information.

Review and approve labels and send labels to USDA when necessary.

Track and trend quality data.

Perform daily inspections of incoming product, equipment and finished product.

Calibrate scales and thermometers.

Perform locker inspections according to company requirements.

Perform lab testing on equipment, product, and environment.

Convey hazards related with equipment to staff working near and with machines.

Assisting QA Manager in conducting root cause analysis investigations for internal incidents and customer feedback in addition to closing identified actions within agreed upon timelines.

Assist with internal audit program planning, execution and follow up.

Edit and create inspection paperwork and Gainseeker to assure proper inspection and documentation of product attributes.

Oversee paperwork audits to ensure accuracy and compliance to all food safety and quality programs.

Act as backup SQF Practitioner for Quality Assurance Manager.

Minimum Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are…