Quality Assurance Supervisor - Trenton, Canada - Quinte Custom Foods

Description

POSITION:
Quality Assurance Supervisor**
REPORTS TO: Quality Assurance Manager

As a key leader on the Quality Assurance team, the QA Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the HACCP
Food Safety programs and protocols are executed effectively at our facility.

As a Quality Assurance supervisor, you will play a critical role in creating and maintaining Food Safety protocols for our facility.

MAJOR DUTIES

• Responsible for HACCP maintenance, ongoing HACCP reassessment, monitoring and verification.

Identify any Food Safety and HACCP-related Work Requests generating from Interior Premises

Audits, Sanitation Monitoring, Pre-op inspections, 3rd Party audits, or any Food Safety failures.

• Assist and accompany CFIA inspectors during performance of their CVS tasks and Risk Based sampling.
• Update SOPs and forms from HACCP reassessments, program changes, etc. as necessary
• Conduct monthly audits to verify compliance with FSEP pre-requisites bullets and HACCP.
• Assemble and lead annual HACCP reassessment team.
• Conduct pre-requisite program reassessment and audit.
• Prepare and support various Audits including internal audits.
• Perform record verification & CCP operator competence verification.
• Maintain, update, and ensure consistent execution of the HACCP program to align with internal and external requirements.
• Supervise a staff of QA Technicians and/or QA Coordinators ensuring that tasks are conducted consistently, efficiently and aligned with the needs of the business.
• Plan QA staffing requirements according to production demands.
• Assist with analysis of data to determine root cause of deficiencies and provide feedback on performance and necessary improvements.
• Participate in cross functional SOP development and ensure that facility SOPs and related documents are in correct format, properly stored and distributed as per manufacturing excellence requirements.
• Conducting monthly GMP, internal and external audits with cross-functional team and identifying opportunities for improvement.
• Lead cross functional teams completing incident investigations where food safety or food quality may be compromised.
• Take lead on execution of various initiatives to improve the quality and safety of our products.
• Support QA team as required (back-up for various roles, etc).
• Other duties as required.

JOB SPECIFICATIONS

• University degree or college diploma preferably in Chemistry, Microbiology, Food Science, or a related discipline.

2. 3 to 5 years food related experience in areas of GMP and HACCP principles and programs.

• Must have in-depth HACCP experience including program development, implementation of programs and auditing of the program.
• Proven ability to lead and coach.
• Superior communication skills.
• Detail oriented with strong organizational and presentation skills.
• Strong systems skills (including MS Office).

Salary:
$70,000.00-$80,000.00 per year


Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• RRSP match

Schedule:

• 10 hour shift
• 8 hour shift
• Overtime

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Trenton, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

Experience:

- quality assurance: 1 year (preferred)


Work Location:
One location