Kraft Heinz Company
Quality Supervisor
Kraft Heinz Company, Fremont, Ohio, United States, 43420
Job Purpose
The position of the Off Shift Quality Supervisor is instrumental to the daily success of the facility. This leader's responsibility is to lead the quality food safety initiatives on off shift while supporting Sanitation supervision on 3rd shift. This candidate can achieve this task by evaluating daily production, updating programs and documents to improve and simplify our process, and verifying all Food Safety Quality and Food Defense Programs are compliant on an ongoing daily basis throughout the year so no gaps exist. Some areas of focus consist of Kraft Heinz policies, KHMS, HACCP, FDA regulations, FSSC, religious laws, and state laws. This candidate must have a mentality every day to learn the production floor processes across the facility and all the required regulatory equipment in the facility. They will be supporting the verification for the functionality of the equipment and compliance to all hourly trained programs and initiatives. This candidate must be able to coach/teach/communicate at all levels from the hourly employees to the facility manager on site.
Essential Functions & ResponsibilitiesBe the off shift quality supervisor leader for the department that maintains all programs to a very high Food Safety level for compliance.Actively engaged support in planning, defining, and directing the site auditing control program to ensure compliance to all procedures, and policies, GMP standards, Kraft Heinz requirements, and regulatory, federal and local laws.Perform assignments in accordance with 5S, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing initiatives.Support the KHMS system and operational standards as outlined in the plant accountability list.Train, mentor, and lead off shift site Quality, Maintenance, Materials, and Production team members to ensure quality program goals are met. Strong support to site KHMS/ISO Coordinator. Monitor and maintain the plant KHMS program by complying with current Kraft Heinz and International Audit (FSSC/ISO) standards. Facilitate and co-lead the site cross-functional quality team and participate with Kraft Heinz corporate to ensure successful certifications for the site.Ensure all Specification/KPI/KHMS/FSSC/ISO/Golden Rules plans are maintained and executed.Support all internal and external inspections/regulatory visits. Support and lead off shift audit preparation activities, accompany inspectors, and complete necessary reports for communication and process owner postings.Lead follow-ups to non-conformances found and provide responses as appropriate for all off shift risks. Review and approve minor change requests.Monitor all weekly sanitation records for compliance and follow-up to ensure adherence to programs and established limits to ensure food safety.Lead plant sanitation improvement projects, automation, and expansion projects.Direct and report on overall plant sanitation programs including PSS, RSS, PIC/PEC, expansion, and extended runs.Direct sanitation environmental control programs like clean equipment swabs, environmental monitoring, and pathogen testing.Coordinate and conduct full sanitation audits including equipment tear downs to ensure effectiveness of equipment cleaning procedures.Perform assignments in accordance with established Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), policies and procedures.Support compliance for Hold/Release documentation and dispositioning of products.Complete and lead validation studies for all CCPs, OPRPs, and other significant controls in accordance with approved methodologies.Maintain Quality Suite to track and trend quality checks data and create new projects as needed.Perform Net content calculation analysis for New SKU to meet the NIST requirement or for retargeting for current SKUs.Ensure compliance to Golden Rules and other Quality principles through routine auditing, reporting and trending compliance appropriately.Provide expertise on off shift and supporting shifts while actively participating in equipment commissioning and startup, ensuring standardization of all applicable quality and food safety procedures are followed and gaps are called out for future corrective actions.Adhere to approved Control of change procedures, to include reviewing partial HACCP plans and issuing Agile change requests, as needed. You will be the point of contact for all meetings impacting third shift.Expected Experience & Required SkillsPrefer minimum of 3+ years of experience working in a quality, production, or sanitation department within the food industry, with at least 3 years in a leadership position in a food manufacturing facility.Prefer strong understanding of HACCP principles, food safety regulations, quality system management systems, sanitation run rules, production processes, and the KHMS framework if applicable.Prefer strong leadership, technical, communication, delegation, and organizational skills along with keen attention to detail.Prefer being proficient in Microsoft Office, SAP, Agile, and matrix databases.Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those minimum expectations by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will sit, talk, walk, and hear. The employee at a minimum will have to stand, reach with hands and arms, and stoop or kneel. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to twenty pounds, and occasionally lift less than fifty pounds.
Location(s)
Fremont Factory
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The position of the Off Shift Quality Supervisor is instrumental to the daily success of the facility. This leader's responsibility is to lead the quality food safety initiatives on off shift while supporting Sanitation supervision on 3rd shift. This candidate can achieve this task by evaluating daily production, updating programs and documents to improve and simplify our process, and verifying all Food Safety Quality and Food Defense Programs are compliant on an ongoing daily basis throughout the year so no gaps exist. Some areas of focus consist of Kraft Heinz policies, KHMS, HACCP, FDA regulations, FSSC, religious laws, and state laws. This candidate must have a mentality every day to learn the production floor processes across the facility and all the required regulatory equipment in the facility. They will be supporting the verification for the functionality of the equipment and compliance to all hourly trained programs and initiatives. This candidate must be able to coach/teach/communicate at all levels from the hourly employees to the facility manager on site.
Essential Functions & ResponsibilitiesBe the off shift quality supervisor leader for the department that maintains all programs to a very high Food Safety level for compliance.Actively engaged support in planning, defining, and directing the site auditing control program to ensure compliance to all procedures, and policies, GMP standards, Kraft Heinz requirements, and regulatory, federal and local laws.Perform assignments in accordance with 5S, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing initiatives.Support the KHMS system and operational standards as outlined in the plant accountability list.Train, mentor, and lead off shift site Quality, Maintenance, Materials, and Production team members to ensure quality program goals are met. Strong support to site KHMS/ISO Coordinator. Monitor and maintain the plant KHMS program by complying with current Kraft Heinz and International Audit (FSSC/ISO) standards. Facilitate and co-lead the site cross-functional quality team and participate with Kraft Heinz corporate to ensure successful certifications for the site.Ensure all Specification/KPI/KHMS/FSSC/ISO/Golden Rules plans are maintained and executed.Support all internal and external inspections/regulatory visits. Support and lead off shift audit preparation activities, accompany inspectors, and complete necessary reports for communication and process owner postings.Lead follow-ups to non-conformances found and provide responses as appropriate for all off shift risks. Review and approve minor change requests.Monitor all weekly sanitation records for compliance and follow-up to ensure adherence to programs and established limits to ensure food safety.Lead plant sanitation improvement projects, automation, and expansion projects.Direct and report on overall plant sanitation programs including PSS, RSS, PIC/PEC, expansion, and extended runs.Direct sanitation environmental control programs like clean equipment swabs, environmental monitoring, and pathogen testing.Coordinate and conduct full sanitation audits including equipment tear downs to ensure effectiveness of equipment cleaning procedures.Perform assignments in accordance with established Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), policies and procedures.Support compliance for Hold/Release documentation and dispositioning of products.Complete and lead validation studies for all CCPs, OPRPs, and other significant controls in accordance with approved methodologies.Maintain Quality Suite to track and trend quality checks data and create new projects as needed.Perform Net content calculation analysis for New SKU to meet the NIST requirement or for retargeting for current SKUs.Ensure compliance to Golden Rules and other Quality principles through routine auditing, reporting and trending compliance appropriately.Provide expertise on off shift and supporting shifts while actively participating in equipment commissioning and startup, ensuring standardization of all applicable quality and food safety procedures are followed and gaps are called out for future corrective actions.Adhere to approved Control of change procedures, to include reviewing partial HACCP plans and issuing Agile change requests, as needed. You will be the point of contact for all meetings impacting third shift.Expected Experience & Required SkillsPrefer minimum of 3+ years of experience working in a quality, production, or sanitation department within the food industry, with at least 3 years in a leadership position in a food manufacturing facility.Prefer strong understanding of HACCP principles, food safety regulations, quality system management systems, sanitation run rules, production processes, and the KHMS framework if applicable.Prefer strong leadership, technical, communication, delegation, and organizational skills along with keen attention to detail.Prefer being proficient in Microsoft Office, SAP, Agile, and matrix databases.Physical Requirements
The physical demands described here are representative of those minimum expectations by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee will sit, talk, walk, and hear. The employee at a minimum will have to stand, reach with hands and arms, and stoop or kneel. The employee must regularly lift and/or move up to ten pounds, frequently lift and/or move up to twenty pounds, and occasionally lift less than fifty pounds.
Location(s)
Fremont Factory
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