SORTER SUPERVISOR
Description
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
EOE/VETS/DISABILITY