QA/Sanitation Superintendent

Job purpose

This position serves as a supervisor for HACCP, GMP, Organic, between all quality/food safety programs including but not limited to microbiological testing, Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) programs, in-house and third-party audits, quality evaluations and compliance certifications. This position supports QA management to ensure full compliance with quality and food safety regulations.

Essential Duties and responsibilities

The Superintendent will primarily work third shift hours (11:00 pm to 7:30 am), however some daytime hours may be required to complete projects. The primary duty of this position is to manage the day-to-day activities of the second shift QA team and oversee 3rd shift sanitation and pre-operations. This position is the backup to the QA Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

* Participate in oversight of program(s) for Sanitation, Packaging, Ingredient, Product and Process inspection or verification according to the government regulations, corporate standards, and good manufacturing practices.

* Supervises all quality and food safety floor activities ensuring they are meeting regulatory and company food safety polices/standards throughout all phases of the manufacturing process.

* Management of our 3rd party sanitation company.

* Identify and action deficiencies through Corrective Action Reports. Participate in Root Cause Analysis for effective solutions.

* Drive continuous improvement in the areas of food safety, sanitation, and quality.

* Manage HLF micro standards programs.

* Engage HLF team cross-functional to solve customer complaints.

Qualifications

Qualifications include:

* 3-5 years working in food safety and sanitation in a food environment

* Bachelor's degree or above preferred, but not required

* HACCP & 3rd party audit certified

* Strong mathematical and critical thinking skills.

* Reliability, decisiveness, good judgment, assertiveness, flexibility, persistence, and patience

* Knowledge of food sanitation requirements

* Well-developed and demonstrated English-language communications (both written and verbal), interpersonal, and decision making abilities

* Ability to communicate and enforce quality and food safety expectations in a collaborative and effective manner.

* Ability to manage and resolve conflict in a positive way

* Ability to flex schedule to support the business.

Working conditions

Office Environment: The noise level in the office work environment is moderately quiet.

Plant Environment: The plant work environment will expose the employee to loud noise, food grade dust & odors, moving & vibrating machinery, heavy equipment, powered industrial trucks, heights, traffic, anhydrous ammonia, oil and electricity. The employee may be exposed to adverse weather conditions including extreme cold, heat, rain, snow, dust, smoke and odors. Flexibility of work hours. Ability to work on feet for extended periods of time if needed.

Physical requirements/Allergens

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, sit, talk, listen, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to use hands to handle, operate, and feel objects, tools or controls. The employee is occasionally required to operate a motor vehicle to travel to off-site meetings. The employee must have visual acuity sufficient to operate a motor vehicle and digital camera, as well as other office and position equipment. Specific vision abilities required by the job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus. Employee must be able to hear and speak clearly in order to communicate with clients, coworkers, employees and vendors.

Travel

* Expected travel for this role is 0-5%

Direct reports

* 2 direct reports. 21 indirect reports

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.