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Quality Assurance Supervisor

Stratas Foods57 open roles

Pay
$61,625 – $82,700 a year
Where
Decatur, IL, United States
Work mode
On site
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Your applicationOpen nowQuality Assurance SupervisorStratas Foods · Decatur, IL, United States

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8.2% of postings close within 7 days. Measured by our own scanner across the market. Stratas Foods postings stay open a median of 38 days.

Share of postings closed within
  1. 1.8%1 day
  2. 3.6%3 days
  3. 8.2%7 days
  4. 15.2%14 days
  5. 34.0%30 days
This job: posted 6 days ago

Stratas Foods median: 38 days open

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Company Description

Headquartered in Cordova, TN, Stratas Foods is a 50/50 joint venture formed in October 2008 between ACH Food Companies and Archer Daniels Midland Company. Stratas Foods is built on the combined strengths and expertise of these two great parent companies, developed over more than 200 years of combined experience. Stratas will continue to build on this foundation of excellence by providing value-added, branded, and custom-formulated fats and oils solutions to the food service, food ingredient, and retail sectors. At Stratas Foods, we are committed to being the most valued supplier of fats, oils, dressings, mayonnaise, and salad dressings to the private label retail bottled oils market in the United States.

Manufacturing facilities are located in Dallas and Houston, TX; Decatur and Quincy, IL; Englewood and Hillside, NJ; Fresno, CA; Nashville, TN; and Valdosta, GA. Corporate offices are located in Memphis, TN. We are committed to maintaining a progressive workplace by utilizing the ideas, skills, and talents of all our employees. We strive to make Stratas Foods a great place to work and are building a team capable of meeting our business goals.

Job Description

This position is responsible for supervising quality assurance activities across multiple shifts, including laboratory operations, quality testing, inspections, and verification of plant programs. The QA Supervisor works closely with Production and all other departments to ensure quality and food safety programs, procedures, and standards are consistently followed. This role provides direction, oversight, and support to QA personnel across three shifts, promotes accountability and effective communication, and helps identify and address quality issues to ensure the production of safe, consistent, and high-quality products.

Qualifications

1.Supervise and provide direction to QA personnel across multiple shifts to ensure consistent execution of quality and food safety requirements.

2.Plan and coordinate daily QA activities, staffing, coverage, priorities, and shift assignments.

3.Provide timely communication to QA and plant leadership regarding significant quality, food safety, or production concerns.

4.Proactively work with plant and QA leadership to address areas needing improvement

5.Analyze lab needs from training, staffing, and equipment needs

6.Maintain strong communication between QA shifts to ensure issues, priorities, and follow-up activities are effectively communicated.

7.Review and approve direct report timecards

8.Identify quality and food safety issues, initiate appropriate containment, and ensure timely escalation when necessary.

9.Investigate deviations, review batch sheets, etc., approval of deviation if warranted

10.Represent the QA department, as needed by the QA Manager during audits, inspections and meetings

11.Monitor production activities and verify compliance with product specifications, GMPs, food safety requirements, and company procedures.

12.Troubleshoot, maintain, and repair of lab equipment

13.Product disposition in M3 (ERP System)

14. Responsible for lab safety

15.Monitor quality trends and use data to identify opportunities for improvement

16.Support continuous improvement initiatives that reduce quality incidents, customer complaints, waste, and repeat issues.

17.Schedule preventative maintenance (PMs) for lab equipment, DU 620, Minispec, NIR, etc.

18.Ensure effective shift handoffs and continuity of QA coverage across all operating shifts.

19. Inform QA and production teams are aware of new product specifications or changes to existing

20.Write new procedures and update procedure books

21.Participate in customer and third party audits

22.Determine lab equipment needs; write AFEs when needed

23.Review line paperwork (weight sheets, line QA, and metal detection includes HACCP sign off)

24.Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Competencies

1.Must possess strong leadership ability and self motivation

2.Strong organizational skills to maintain multiple programs

3.Good communication skills and teamwork in working with plant personnel to accomplish goals

4.Able to set goals and achieve them with regards to safety, quality, and production

5.Hold QA personnel accountable for completing assigned responsibilities and following established procedures.

6.Must be able to drive consistency in QA expectations and practices across all shifts.

Additional Information

Education: High School diploma is required with desired experience. Bachelor’s Degree is preferred in food science, chemistry, biology; or relevant experience.

Related Experience: Experience with lab and/or quality assurance in food packaging is required. Three to five years of supervisory/leadership experience is required.

Equipment/Software Skills: Must be PC literate with working knowledge of MS Office, and Outlook.

Certifications, Licenses, Registrations: PCQI certification is preferred.

Physical: This position requires the ability to lift up to 50 pounds, climb stairs, bend, kneel, walk and stand for extended periods, work in confined spaces, and work at heights all within a manufacturing environment. Perform work in indoor and outdoor environments, including exposure to noise, dust, weather, and potential hazards

Sensory: Good Listening Skills; Public speaking abilities to communicate with both hourly and salaried personnel. Must possess appropriate sensory awareness (sight, hearing, touch, etc.) to respond to plant conditions, including alarms and environmental changes.

Mental Reasoning: Must be able to perform root cause analysis and corrective action. Must be able to continuously learn and adapt to changes in the overall business relative to SMOs and DSMs.

Must consent and pass background check and drug screen.

Benefits - Medical/Dental

Salary Range $61,625 -$82,700

Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision

Stratas Foods is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any applicant or employee in any manner prohibited by law, including but not limited to, on the basis of race or color, religion, gender, age, genetic information, national origin/ancestry, mental or physical disability, family status/marital status, military/veteran status, and any other legally protected status.

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision-The Employer will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the Employer’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

Stratas Foods Applicant Request for Accommodation Form: https://www.stratasfoods.com/compliance

Stratas Foods California Privacy Rights Act Policy: https://www.stratasfoods.com/compliance

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