Quality Food Safety Supervisor

Join us as a Quality and Food Safety Supervisor at our cutting-edge frozen production facility in San Jose, CA. In this role, you’ll be responsible for developing, ensuring compliance with, and certifying food safety programs. Collaborating with Corporate Quality, you’ll execute company programs, maintaining a safe, clean, reliable, and productive environment in our plant while supporting our production team.  This role supports our plant from 3pm-12am.

 

As a Quality and Food Safety Supervisor, you’ll be at the heart of ensuring Kellanova’s delectable products meet the highest quality standards. You will coordinate excellence through your leadership by engaging with your team in development and training. You’ll keep the plant audit-ready. You’ll handle it all, from new product innovation quality standards to troubleshooting persistent quality issues.

 

A Taste of What You’ll Be Doing

 

• Compliance is Key – Be responsible for ensuing microbial program and sanitation compliance. You will also be accountable for HACCP, mandatory training, line validations and third-party audits.
• Program Management –Ensure allergen program management and compliance, inspection program management and delivery of established metrics. Maintain the site QFS Lab Budget to keep plant financially on track. Manage the site’s Food Safety Plan.
• Continuous Improvement Focused – Help drive continuous improvement and HPO initiatives forward. Work with partners to execute programs as well as ensure management, adherence, and achievement of plant SOP’s & KPI’s.  Manage, support, and train the site QFS SOP database.  
• Lead with Excellence – You’ll manage, direct, train, develop and support QFS Technicians while ensuring they have the proper tools and chemical inventory to be successful.

 

We’re Looking for Someone With

 

• Bachelor’s degree in food science, microbiology, or other relevant degree or substantial experience in quality & food safety 
• HACCP and SQF certification
• Technical knowledge and a minimum of three years experience of quality & food safety 
• Strong written, verbal communication and computer software skills to include Microsoft Office Suite skills
• Experience in a union environment
• Hands-on microbiology laboratory experience 
• SAP software experience 

 

What’s Next

After you apply, your application will be reviewed by a real recruiter, so it may take us a few weeks to get back with you by email or phone. Visit our How We Hire page to get insights into our hiring process and more about what we offer.

 

Need assistance throughout the application or hiring process? Email USA.Recruitment@kellanova.com.

 

If you join our team, you’ll be rewarded for the difference you make. Our comprehensive benefits offer you the support you need through your life events, big or small. Visit our benefits page & be sure to ask your recruiter for m