Quality Control Supervisor jobs in Iowa

Position Summary: Responsible for ensuring that the highest quality is being produced while providing a safe and efficient working environment.

Duties/Responsibilities:

• Supervise the quality control department and ensure food safety standards are being met.
• Assumes a shared role as a safety champion that inspires team members to embrace and be accountable for personal safety. Ensure a safe and orderly working environment, free of slip/trip hazards; maintain compliance to meet/exceed all site and regulatory requirements
• Understanding of GMP, HACCP, FSMA, Safe Quality Food Principles, Food Defense Principles & Quality Management Systems
• Assist in development, execution and improvement of all Quality Assurance and Food Safety Programs, Policies and Procedures
• Support execution of a strong CAPA (Corrective Action / Preventive Action) program that drives site improvement in Quality and Regulatory Compliance
• Assist with managing departments operating budget, including but not limited to Headcount, Compensation, Material & Supplies, Repair & Maintenance, and Professional Fees
• Understand and apply moderately complex mathematical concepts, to include statistics, in support of continuous improvement and statistical process control efforts
• Define problems, collect data, establish facts, analysis quality data and draw valid conclusions to solve problems, improve customer and consumer satisfaction, and improve and simply process
• Support new product, new materials, and new supplier projects and qualifications, working with R&D, Procurement, and Corporate Quality change processes
• Provide daily dispositions and resolutions to production quality issues. Coordinate actions related to vendor quality issues, including processing of vendor claims
• Support the continual monitoring of all products during manufacture to assure conformance to established product specifications
• Provide the necessary technical support to the plant in the areas of processing, packaging and ingredient evaluation
• Participate in the planning, organization and implementation of special projects
• Well organized, high energy, data driven, and results oriented
• Able to react to change productively and handle other essential tasks as assigned

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-4 years of previous quality control/lab experience
• 1 years of supervision experience
• Must be familiar with HAACP, ISO, and Food Safety standards
• Must be able to learn and understand KORE & KDP regulations

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Continuous Improvement Mindset
• Communication Skills
• Dexterity Skills
• Problem Solving Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Interpersonal Skills
• Must be able to read, speak, and write in English to be able to communicate with supervisor and co-workers and to operate equipment.

Work Environment: Office, Lab and Production Area. Ear protection is required in production areas. Must wear hair/beard net in designated areas. Other PPE such as hi-vis vests are applicable in certain areas.

Physical Requirements:

• Regularly required to use hands, reach with hands and arms, talk, see, and hear
• Frequently required to stand, bend, walk, and sit
• Ability to lift/carry <50 lbs.
• Ability to push/pull <50 lbs.

Job Status: Full-Time

Work Schedule: M-F 4:00 pm 2:00 am; extended days and hours as needed

EOE

Pay: $70,000 per year