The posting
Overview
Coborn's Inc. is looking for a Quality Assurance & Sanitation Supervisor to provide hands-on leadership within our Food Production operation. In this role, you’ll lead our Quality Assurance and Sanitation teams, help ensure our products consistently meet our quality expectations, and partner across the operation to maintain high standards for cleanliness, food safety, and continuous improvement.
As an Employee Owner, the work you do has a direct connection to the success of our company. You’ll be empowered to identify opportunities, solve problems, develop your team, and make decisions with the long-term success of our operation, our guests, and your fellow Employee Owners in mind.
If you’re someone who takes ownership, enjoys developing people, and believes quality is everyone’s responsibility, this could be a great opportunity to grow your career with Coborn’s.
What You’ll Do
As our Quality Assurance & Sanitation Supervisor, you’ll provide day-to-day leadership and oversight of Quality Assurance and Sanitation activities within our production facility.
- Lead, coach, and develop Quality Assurance and Sanitation team members while establishing clear expectations and accountability.
- Oversee daily QA activities to ensure products meet established quality standards, specifications, and sensory expectations.
- Conduct and oversee product, process, and production-floor inspections.
- Monitor product consistency and identify, document, and communicate quality concerns, deviations, defects, and trends.
- Supervise and coordinate daily sanitation activities to ensure production areas, equipment, and facilities meet established cleaning standards and schedules.
- Ensure established sanitation procedures and SSOPs are consistently followed.
- Conduct or oversee pre-operational inspections and sanitation verification activities.
- Monitor sanitation effectiveness, environmental monitoring activities, and allergen cleaning and changeover procedures.
- Partner closely with Operations, Maintenance, and Plant Leadership to investigate concerns, identify root causes, and implement effective corrective actions.
- Support product evaluations, quality testing, shelf-life activities, guest complaints, product holds, rejects, rework, and disposition activities.
- Support internal, guest, regulatory, and third-party audits by maintaining strong audit readiness and accurate documentation.
- Provide training and reinforcement related to quality standards, GMPs, sanitation procedures, SSOPs, allergen controls, inspections, and other applicable requirements.
- Maintain accurate and timely QA, sanitation, environmental monitoring, corrective action, and audit documentation.
- Help build a culture where Employee Owners take pride in quality, sanitation, teamwork, accountability, and continuous improvement.
Why You’ll Love This Role
This is more than a position focused on checking boxes and enforcing standards. You’ll have the opportunity to influence how our products are made, how our teams work together, and how we continue improving our operation.
As an Employee Owner, you’ll be encouraged to look beyond the immediate issue and consider what is best for our guests, our fellow Employee Owners, and the long-term success of our company.
- Lead and develop a team that plays an important role in our production operation.
- Work closely with Operations, Maintenance, Food Safety, and Plant Leadership.
- Have a direct impact on product quality and the experience our guests have with Coborn’s products.
- Identify opportunities for improvement and help turn them into meaningful change.
- Build your knowledge of food production, quality assurance, sanitation, and food safety.
- Take ownership of your work and see the impact of your decisions throughout the operation.
- Grow your career with a company that believes in developing and promoting its Employee Owners.
Why Join Coborn’s?
Coborn’s, Inc. is a fast-growing, employee-owned grocery retailer proudly serving communities across the Midwest. For more than 100 years, we’ve built our business around fresh thinking, meaningful community connections, and opportunities for our people to grow. Here, your ideas, leadership, and results can make a visible impact.
Our family of businesses includes Coborn’s, Cash Wise Foods, Marketplace Foods, Hornbacher’s, Tadych’s Marketplace Foods, Sullivan’s Foods, Kessler’s, and additional retail and service brands. Together, we’re guided by our vision to inspire happiness, healthy living, and simplicity.
What's In It For Me?
Our remarkable employees are at the heart of everything we do. At Coborn's, we're committed to creating a supportive and rewarding workplace, one that offers a vibrant, team-oriented environment, ongoing career growth, and meaningful benefits. As an employee-owned company, we believe in investing in our people and their futures.
Please find a list of many of our exciting benefits below:
- Medical & Dental insurance with Health Savings Account (HSA), Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options
- Employee Stock Ownership Program (ESOP) – yes, we're employee-owned! Our team members benefit from the success of the company through this company-sponsored benefit!
- 401(k) plan options – we also match up to 20% of the first 5% contributed
- Competitive Paid Time Off (PTO/Vacation)
- 10% employee discount on grocery items, with additional franchise-specific discounts available at company-owned Ace Hardware, Caribou Coffee, Erbert and Gerbert's, and Pet Supplies Plus locations.
- Additional Voluntary Benefits – such as vision, accident and critical illness insurances
- Adoption Reimbursement, Paid Family Caregiver Leave, as well as company-sponsored Term Life Insurance
- Get Paid Daily with DailyPay – for employees who would like access to their pay before payday, we offer this great benefit!
- Paid Military Leave
- Employee recognition programs with monetary rewards, including in-store vouchers, years of service, and employee of the month
- Employee Health & Wellness Programs, Challenges and Resources – to assist our team members in living a life of wellbeing!
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) – unlimited phone access to legal, financial, and work-life services and up to five free in-person counseling sessions, per situation/issue, per year
- Access to a national discount marketplace for travel, electronics, auto/home insurance, entertainment and more!
- Tools, resources and opportunities for career growth and development
- Education benefits including tuition discount and scholarship programs
Qualifications
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related field preferred.
- 5–8+ years of experience in food manufacturing, Quality Assurance, or food safety.
- 2+ years of leadership or supervisory experience preferred.
Knowledge & Skills
- Strong leadership, coaching, and relationship-building skills.
- High attention to detail and a strong commitment to quality and compliance.
- Strong problem-solving and root cause analysis abilities.
- The ability to balance regulatory and quality requirements with the practical needs of a production environment.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to work effectively with frontline employees and leadership.
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office, including strong Excel skills.
- Knowledge of HACCP, FSMA, GMPs, SSOPs, allergen controls, and environmental monitoring programs.
- Experience supporting audit readiness and regulatory inspections.
- Experience with data analysis, reporting, and QA systems.
- Certifications & Licenses
- HACCP Certification required.
- PCQI (Preventive Controls Qualified Individual) certification required or ability to obtain.
- SQF Practitioner or similar GFSI certification preferred.
- Certified Food Safety Manager, such as ServSafe or equivalent, preferred.
- Valid driver’s license and insurance with the ability to travel to business locations as needed.
We believe that building a team of people with different backgrounds, beliefs, experiences and perspectives inspires fresh thinking and opens us up to new possibilities. We are an EEO/AA Employer - All qualified individuals, including minorities, females, veterans and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
Pay Range
USD $55,000.00 - USD $87,000.00 /Yr. Company Introduction
Are you friendly, dependable, and passionate about working with people? At Coborn’s, Inc., we love serving our guests, supporting our communities, and helping our team members grow their careers. If you’re looking for a place where you can build a future while making a positive impact every day, we’d love to talk to you about joining our team!
Coborn's, Inc. is a fast-growing, employee-owned grocery retailer proudly serving communities across the Midwest. Our family of grocery stores includes Coborn's, Cash Wise Foods, Marketplace Foods, Hornbacher's, Tadych’s Marketplace Foods, Sullivan’s Foods, and Kessler’s. We offer our guests an elevated shopping experience—both in-store and online—focused on freshness, value, and convenience. Guided by our company vision to inspire happiness, healthy living, and simplicity, this principle has fueled our growth for more than 100 years and is at the heart of everything we do.
Coborn’s, Inc. also owns and operates liquor stores under the Coborn’s Liquor, Cash Wise Liquor, Andy’s Liquor, and Captain Jack’s brands. In addition, we operate fuel kiosks and convenience store locations under the Little Dukes and Coborn’s Express names. Many of our grocery stores also feature full-service pharmacies to support the health and wellness of our guests. We manage a variety of other retail businesses in markets where the fit is right, including Ace Hardware, Country Floral Gifts & Greenhouse, Caribou Coffee, Dunn Brothers Coffee, Erbert and Gerbert’s, Godfather’s Pizza, and Pet Supplies Plus. To support our diverse retail operations, we operate our own central bakery, fresh foods commissary, and grocery warehouse and distribution center.
