Beef Modernization Supervisor

Responsibilities:

Drive food safety across the harvest floor.

Ensures that Beef Modernization functions are running efficiently while maintaining a safe workplace and food safety on the Harvest floor.

Lead, supervise, and manage Beef Modernization personnel, ensuring continuing professional development, training, and overall employee well-being at all processing facilities.

Provide strong leadership and management skills in a high paced environment.

Provide subject matter expertise for plant related programs and activities as they pertain to food safety/microbiology, regulations, and quality systems.

Provide technical oversight and guidance for quality related functions at the identified facility.

Understand basic bovine anatomy, physiology and pathology.

Determine the appropriate actions to take to ensure removal and disposal of unwholesome and unfit carcasses, parts, or viscera to ensure they cannot be used as human food.

Excellent understanding of when a carcass or part(s) display certain conditions/disease processes or have systemic involvement requiring USDA-FSIS Public Health Veterinarian disposition.

Oversee continuous training/correlations with Beef Modernization personnel. Periodically measure and quantify understanding and comprehension of training.

Provide strategic leadership, guidance, and risk management for local food safety and quality programs and systems to include, but not limited to, HACCP, Preventative Controls, USDA Process Verified Program and customer or 3rd party audit-drive requirements and policies.

Strong understanding of plant HACCP, pre-requisite quality programs, and all quality/food safety related programs to meet regulatory and/or customer requirements.

Provide technical support to Plant Management and onsite plant functions.

Involved in tracking microbiological trends, sanitation program performance, and communicate results to plant team members and corporate quality assurance.

Comprehensive knowledge of statistical process controls. Ability to drive continuous improvement with Quality Programs.

Support Continuous Improvement with standardized work, science based problem solving and utilizing real time tools to predict quality attributes.

Create and write quality control programs to be implemented plant and company wide.

Prepare, implement and monitor standard operating procedures for each production area involving Beef Modernization personnel in the plant.

Other duties as assigned.

 Qualifications:

B.S. in Animal Science, Meat Science, Food Science or related science discipline preferred.

College experience beneficial to develop writing skills and animal science knowledge.

Minimum 5-7 years of experience in the USDA or quality control area.

HACCP certification preferred.

Knowledge, background and expertise in Meat processing operations is critical.

Areas of knowledge must include HACCP, specification adherence to incoming raw materials, brine mixing procedures, trimming, chilling, styling & packaging specs, packaging modified atmosphere characteristics, final box/package configuration and shelf-life.

Supervisory skills; good interpersonal relations; able to handle conflict.

Good verbal and written communication skills.

Team player with leadership skills.

Experience in leading groups of QA employees, including setting team and individual objectives, managing individual and team performance and building a team approach to problem solving.

Outstanding communication skills in order to lead, engage and motivate individuals and/or teams.

Strong proficiency with personal computer software with knowledge of word processing, spreadsheet and multiple applications required.

Detail oriented and strong analytical skills.

Highly organized.

Spanish/English bilingual desired but not required.