Exports Superintendent

JBS- SOUDERTON, PENNSYLVANIA

JOB DESCRIPTION -  RESPONSIBILITIES:
Reports to the Technical Services Manager.

• Manage Quality System Assessment (QSA) Manual and EV Programs.
• Responsible for verifying the accuracy and completeness of foreign export orders.
• Verify export documentation for the foreign country requirements and specifications is correct.
• Make sure product is produced to company’s food safety standards and meets quality specifications to insure customer satisfaction and proper primal placement in the box, monitor export box integrity.
• Verify that the boxes for exporting are appropriately numbered.
• Communicate with scheduling to make sure product gets made and that packaging meets our specifications and any foreign country specific labeling/ packaging requirements.
• Provide sample products to potential customers abroad and give tours of the plant to possible international customers.
• Verify freezer documentation for exporting, and verify product transfers are timely to freezers and to export.
• Verify export paperwork and labels are correct and complete. As well as verifying box counts, mispacks, weights and tares on all export loads.
• Participate in daily fabrication supervisor meetings to inform them of various export information.
• Assist in training quality assurance department technicians and operations employees on the report specifications and packaging requirements.
• Acts as a back up to the QA Manager on all export audits, drive analysis of export claims, assisting in minimizing customer claims through engineering controls.
• Conduct investigations of plant Quality Assurance and Food Safety processes and suggest process improvements, projects, and/or tasks that need to be completed to achieve the goal, by levering engineering skillsets.
• Participates in Operational Excellence project, meeting project team no less than twice per year.
• Look for continuous improvement in operating processes and procedures and encourages hourly team member’s ownership of all processes.
• Responsible for minimizing customer claims through engineering controls.
• Assists in the organizing and coordinating activities of the Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) team for implementation of quality and food safety programs (HACCP and SSOP) and procedures.
• Co-manages the Food Safety and Quality Assurance Supervisor and Fabrication Supervisor on the responsible shift.
• Monitor activities to ensure team member safety and accurately report any unsafe acts to prevent workplace safety incidents.  Coordinate with site safety team for annual LOTO training for FSQA team.
• Advocates new quality policies and procedures as necessary to ensure high quality products, processes and services.
• Communicates programs and procedures to FSQA and other plant team members by performing in-class and hands-on training.
• Maintains good communication and working relationships with the FSQA team, site Operations team and USDA personnel.  Ensuring that all USDA regulations are being followed.
• Interfaces with facility team to assist in problem-solving using Root cause analyses when investigating daily personnel and processing incidents.
• Ensures the customer quality programs meet or exceed the customer requirements.
• Communicate issues to site management team to ensure the plant is complying with customer specifications.
• Any other job duties as assigned by the Technical Services Manager.

EDUCATION

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field required (Food Science, Meat Science, Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology Engineering, Food Engineer, Animal Science, or related field); to include a minimum 6 months’ experience in the meat manufacturing industry.

 EXPERIENCE

• Extensive knowledge and technical skills in a variety of QA and production jobs, and in supervisory positions.

BENEFITS

• Medical, Dental, Vision, 401K
• Vacation, sick leave, and six company observed holidays
• Better Future Program-2 year MONTCO Community College tuition paid for employee and dependents

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EOE/Vets/Disability