Food Safety & Quality Assurance Supervisor

The Food Safety Quality Assurance Supervisor is responsible for developing, administering and maintaining Food Safety and Quality programs that assure the production of high quality, safe products.

• Supervise the on-line quality assurance technicians to assure compliance to all company, customer quality, and food safety requirements.
• Effectively coach and drive performance improvements of QA Assistant Supervisors, QA Technicians, and Raw Material Inspectors.
• Address performance issues of QA personnel using Chiquita HR guidelines.
• Audit compliance to food safety requirements.
• Carry out root cause analysis and drive sustained improvement at the production level.
• Instill a culture of operational discipline, accuracy, and compliance.
• Prepare and conduct trainings on a range of topics (job specific or other mandatory trainings) for employees at different levels of the organization.
• Ensure that QA department employees are trained in and obey Chiquita's safety rules while carrying out their duties.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Strong technical knowledge of food processing
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Proficiency in computer usage (Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)
• Bilingual English/Spanish
• Experience with ISO 22000 or equivalent system
• Previous experience in food manufacturing

One to three years minimum experience in a Quality Assurance function

B.S. in Food Science, Science or Technical Discipline