Quality & Food Safety Lead

MSI Express; Hammond (IN); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

MSI Express, Hammond, IN, seeks a Quality Supervisor to lead the quality department, ensure food safety and regulatory compliance, and drive continuous improvement across production. You will develop quality policies, supervise audits, and maintain HACCP and SQF programs to meet customer requirements.

The role requires a Bachelor's in a related field and 5+ years in Quality with strong leadership, organizational, and regulatory knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, or related field (Desirable).
• 5+ years of experience in Quality with exposure to all major functional areas of Quality and Food Safety (Essential).
• Knowledge of statistical process control (Desirable).
• Understanding of regulatory guidelines (Desirable).
• Salaried and hourly management skills (Essential).
• Organizational skills (Essential).
• Sensory knowledge (Desirable).
• Food or pharmaceutical knowledge (Essential).

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership, direction and training to the plant in areas such as quality, food safety, plant safety sanitation, good manufacturing practices and customer service.
• Maintain continuous communication with all departments to assure production priorities and shortfalls are addressed in a timely manner, to not impact customer service.
• Establish and review HACCP programs.
• Conduct Customer, regulatory and in-house audits.
• Monitor plant performance and develop/implement action plans to understand and address areas of concern.
• Maintain a clear understanding of customer requirements.
• Develop and maintain operational quality standards, batch sheets and specification sheets.
• Adherence to all customer Quality policies and procedures as stated in the customer’s manuals.
• Create a positive working environment for all associates; one that supports continuous improvement, reinforces company philosophy and policies, and ensures that every individual is treated with respect.
• Adhere to all regulatory rules and regulations, ensuring that food safety and product performance standards are met.
• Assist in the development, implementation, review and maintenance of the SQF 2000 System.
• Ensure that job descriptions for those responsible for food safety are documented and include provision to cover for the absence of key personnel.
• Ensure that food safety fundamentals and safety plans are reviewed when changes are made which may affect food safety.
• Ensure records are reviewed and reasons for change of documents, validations and changes to the SQF system shall be maintained.
• As the SQF Practitioner ensuring changes are validated Report, in a timely manner, Food Safety and Quality problems to personnel with authority to initiate action on those problems

Skills

Quality management

Management skills

Organizational skills

Regulatory knowledge

Sensory knowledge

Food/pharma knowledge

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, or related field

Tools

Statistical Process Control

Job description

MSI Express, Hammond, IN, seeks a Quality Supervisor to lead the quality department, ensure food safety and regulatory compliance, and drive continuous improvement across production. You will develop quality policies, supervise audits, and maintain HACCP and SQF programs to meet customer requirements.

The role requires a Bachelor's in a related field and 5+ years in Quality with strong leadership, organizational, and regulatory knowledge.