Come join the fastest-growing, most innovative bakery in the Midwest!
At the Great Northern Bakery, we create and assemble fresh & frozen food options for our customers nationwide. You will be a key player in helping us achieve operational and quality goals while ensuring safety standards are maintained. We are seeking a motivated Quality Assurance Supervisor who is willing to work in a high-energy, quality first operation.
If you are interested in a career that offers unlimited opportunities with the fastest-growing, most innovative food service company, we want you on our team!
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor daily bakery production to ensure compliance with GMPs, food safety, allergen control, sanitation, and quality standards.
- Support and maintain the facility SQF program, including records, verification activities, corrective actions, and audit preparation.
- Perform routine floor inspections for employee hygiene, handwashing, hairnets, beard nets, uniforms, glove use, and good manufacturing practices.
- Verify production paperwork, CCPs/PCPs, metal detection, weight checks, lot coding, ingredient usage, allergen changeovers, and product quality checks.
- Ensure bakery-specific controls are followed, including foreign material prevention, ingredient handling, proofing/baking controls, cooling, packaging, and finished product release.
- Monitor allergen practices, including ingredient labeling, segregation, rework control, utensil/equipment handling, and changeover cleaning.
- Conduct sanitation inspections before startup and after cleaning to confirm equipment is food-safe.
- Support environmental monitoring, ATP swabbing, pre-op inspections, and corrective actions for sanitation failures.
- Investigate quality or food safety issues, customer complaints, holds, nonconforming product, and production deviations.
- Place product on hold when food safety, quality, labeling, or traceability concerns are identified.
- Train production, sanitation, warehouse, and temporary employees on GMPs, allergen control, food safety, and SQF expectations.
- Assist with internal audits, mock recalls, traceability exercises, supplier documentation, and regulatory/customer audit preparation.
- Partner with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams to correct issues quickly and prevent repeat problems.
- Maintain accurate records and ensure paperwork is completed correctly, legibly, and on time.
- Promote a strong food safety culture by holding employees accountable and coaching teams on proper practices.
- Flour, sugar, yeast, fillings, toppings, oils, and ingredient handling.
- Sifter, mixer, bowl, and equipment cleaning verification.
- Proofing, baking, cooling, slicing, and packaging controls.
- Foreign material risks from screens, utensils, belts, pans, racks, and packaging.
- Allergen risks from wheat, milk, egg, soy, sesame, tree nuts, peanuts, or other site-specific allergens.
- Label accuracy and ingredient declaration verification.
- Rework handling and identification.
- Temperature, time, and humidity controls where applicable.
- Mold prevention and post-bake handling controls.
We are proud to offer competitive benefits including:
- Sick time and paid vacation
- 401K
- Long-Term Disability
- Incentive and bonus Eligible
- Competitive Compensation
- Opportunities for Advancement
- On the Bus Line
- Employee Safety is a priority
- Employee Training and Development
Requirements:
Requirements
- 1-2 years of experience working in a food manufacturing environment
- Experience in bakery, food manufacturing, or ready-to-eat food production.
- SQF, HACCP, PCQI, GMP, allergen, or internal auditor training preferred.
- Experience with pre-op inspections, sanitation verification, environmental monitoring, and customer audits.
- Prior supervisory or lead experience in FSQA, Quality, Sanitation, or Production.
- Responsibilities related to food safety and quality
- Self-directed
- Detail oriented
- Confident
- Strong Communicator
- Experience with Microsoft Office
- Ability to work with cross functional teams
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