Quality Shift Lead: Food Safety & Process Control

Snack Innovations; Piscataway Township (NJ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Job summary

Snack Innovations is seeking a Quality Shift Supervisor to lead Quality Techs on the night/shift, ensuring start-up, in-process, changeover, and finished product checks meet specs. You will supervise quality procedures, training, and documentation while maintaining strong floor presence to address issues quickly.

The role requires strong leadership, GMP/HACCP knowledge, and the ability to escalate concerns. Night/weekend OT may be required at this Piscataway, NJ facility.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required; associate degree or technical coursework in food science, biology, chemistry, or related field preferred
• Prior experience in a quality position within food manufacturing is required; experience as a Quality Tech or in a comparable hands-on quality role is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and hold others accountable, whether gained through a formal supervisory position or lead responsibilities
• Ability to troubleshoot product, process, testing, and documentation concerns and determine when escalation is required
• Working knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, preventive controls, allergen controls, environmental monitoring, and food manufacturing quality practices
• Experience using measurement and testing equipment and interpreting product specifications, sampling plans, and written procedures
• Strong leadership, judgment, problem-solving, communication, and recordkeeping skills
• Ability to make timely decisions, manage competing priorities, and elevate significant concerns appropriately
• Comfort using computers and electronic quality or production systems
• Ability to work an assigned shift, including nights, weekends, overtime, or schedule changes based on production needs
• Bilingual English/Spanish preferred

Responsibilities

• Lead the daily activities of Quality Techs on the assigned shift, including work assignments, coverage, priorities, and follow-up
• Ensure start-up, in-process, changeover, and finished product checks are completed at required frequencies and against approved specifications and sampling plans
• Maintain a visible presence on the production floor and respond promptly to quality, food safety, and production-readiness concerns
• Review completed quality records for accuracy, completeness, and timely escalation of issues
• Train, coach, and provide day-to-day guidance to Quality Techs on procedures, testing methods, documentation, GMPs, and quality expectations
• Communicate shift priorities, open issues, product holds, and required follow-up through effective shift handoffs
• Oversee required product testing, including weight, moisture, sodium, nitrogen, bulk density, appearance, flavor, seasoning application, packaging integrity, and coding
• Verify that incoming materials, ingredients, formulations, seasonings, packaging materials, labels, and product codes meet specifications and match production requirements
• Review out-of-specification results and nonconforming products or materials, initiate holds when authorized, and ensure concerns are promptly escalated
• Verify metal detector checks, package integrity testing, traceability information, and other required control checks are completed according to procedure
• Coordinate raw material, in-process, finished product, environmental, and retain sampling and required testing
• Oversee GMP, hygiene, allergen control, foreign material, pre-operational, sanitation verification, and environmental monitoring activities on the assigned shift
• Immediately elevate conditions that could affect food safety, legality, quality, product release, or production start-up
• Ensure quality and food safety records are completed accurately, legibly, and on time in paper or electronic systems
• Support investigations of deviations, recurring defects, foreign material events, customer complaints, and other quality or food safety concerns
• Gather and review samples, records, observations, and other information needed to support root-cause analysis and corrective actions
• Ensure laboratory and production testing equipment is clean, properly calibrated or verified, and used according to established procedures
• Support audits, traceability exercises, mock recalls, product trials, and regulatory or customer visits as assigned
• Partner with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, Warehouse, the Quality Manager, and quality leadership to resolve shift-level issues while protecting product integrity
• Follow identified issues through correction and documented closure and ensure unresolved concerns are communicated to the appropriate leaders
• Identify recurring defects, documentation gaps, training needs, and practical opportunities to strengthen process control
• Support implementation of new products, procedures, equipment, specifications, and quality improvement initiatives

Skills

Leadership

Problem-solving

Communication

Recordkeeping

Troubleshooting

Coaching

Education

High school diploma or GED

Associate degree or technical coursework in food science/biology/chemistry or related field

Tools

Quality testing equipment

Job description

Snack Innovations is seeking a Quality Shift Supervisor to lead Quality Techs on the night/shift, ensuring start-up, in-process, changeover, and finished product checks meet specs. You will supervise quality procedures, training, and documentation while maintaining strong floor presence to address issues quickly.

The role requires strong leadership, GMP/HACCP knowledge, and the ability to escalate concerns. Night/weekend OT may be required at this Piscataway, NJ facility.