ALB - Quality Assurance Supervisor (1st Shift)

Bachoco USA produces the highest quality chicken products for the U.S. market. Currently, the Bachoco USA family includes more than 4,000 team members who are dedicated to consistently producing high-quality chicken products and nourishing people around the world.

Bachoco USA is seeking a Quality Assurance Supervisor for our Albertville, AL location.

Work Schedule: Monday - Saturday (7:00 am-5:00 pm)

Summary: This Supervisor will be responsible for supervising daily operational quality activities at the assigned complex. Responsible for daily monitoring and verifying activities related to USDA, HACCP, GMP, SSOP SQF, customer and company regulations.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:  Including the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Supervises activities of the quality assurance technicians.
• Interacts with USDA personnel and customers as directed by senior management.
• Helps plan, organize, and implement HACCP protocol testing.
• Responsible for meeting government, customer and company requirements and the reporting of significant events in a timely manner to management.
• Helps plan and prepare for plant audits.
• Reports activities as needed to production and maintenance personnel.
• Responsible for all directives brought forth by senior management
• This is a safety sensitive position.

Qualifications / Experience:

• Previous experience working in a production environment, poultry preferred.
• Knowledge of USDA, HACCP, GMP, SSOP SQF
• Prior supervisory experience.

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises up to 20 employees successfully. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with organization’s policies and applicable laws.  Responsibilities include training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.  Handles employee’s time and pay adjustments.

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

Education and/or Experience: High school diploma or general education degree (GED) with one-year related food plant experience and/or training.

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as HACCP plans, SSOP, GMP manuals and safety rules.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondences.  Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of organization.

Mathematical Skills: Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common numbers, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ration, and percent.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exist. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral diagram, or schedule form.

Computer Skills: To perform this job successfully, an individual should have knowledge of payroll systems; Spreadsheet software and Word processing software.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to stand and walk.  The employee is occasionally required to sit; use hand to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and taste or smell. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 75 pounds.  Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision and peripheral vision.

Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those and employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, moving mechanical parts and fumes or airborne particles.  The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; toxic or caustic chemicals; extreme cold; extreme heat and vibration.  The noise level in the work environment is usually loud. 

An Equal Opportunity Employer to include women, minorities, veterans and persons with disabilities.

*Notice to Third Party Recruitment Agencies: Please note that Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries do not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies. In the absence of an executed Recruitment Services Agreement, there will be no obligation to any referral compensation or recruiter fee. In the event a recruiter or agency submits a resume or candidate without an agreement, Bachoco USA and its subsidiaries shall explicitly reserve the right to pursue and hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, shall be deemed the property of Bachoco USA.