Fort Smith, AR - Quality Assurance Supervisor 3rd Shift

Bachoco Group is a leading multi-business and multiprotein producer, and one of the top ten largest globally, with over 40,000 employees. We offer a wide portfolio of products, including chicken, eggs, pork, beef, pet food, and more. Through Bachoco USA, we deliver high-quality chicken products to the U.S. market, serving retail, food service, and national accounts through our fully integrated operations, which include farms, hatcheries, feed mills, and processing plants.

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Bachoco USA is seeking a Quality Assurance Supervisor for our Fort Smith, AR location.

 

Summary: Supervises daily operational quality activities at the assigned complex. Responsible for daily monitoring and verifying activities relative to USDA, HACCP, GMP, SSOP, SQF, customer and company requirements.        

 

Schedule: Sun-Thur 10:30PM till 8:30am  (Friday Flexibility if facility works 6 days)                                     

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities include the following. Other duties may be assigned.

• Supervises activities of the quality systems 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.
• Ability to develop operational quality leads, make decisions and provide clear directions.
• Responsible for any and all directives brought forth by senior management.
• This is a safety sensitive position

 

Supervisory Responsibilities: Directly supervises up to 25 employees in Quality Systems. Carries out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws. Responsibilities include interviewing, hiring, and training employees; planning, assigning, and directing work; appraising performance; rewarding and disciplining employees; addressing complaints and resolving problems.

 

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the 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: Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university prefered; 4 to 7 years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

 

Language Skills: Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.  Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.  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 fractions, and decimals.  Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

 

Reasoning Ability: Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. 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 E-mail software; Database software; Payroll systems; Spreadsheet software and Word Processing software.

 

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations: HACCP, GMP, SSOP and SQF certifications.

 

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 and taste or smell. The employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The emplo