Position Title: Quality Supervisor – Othello
Position Type: Regular – Full-Time
Position Location: Othello
Requisition ID: 22887
We are looking for an engaging people leader with a passion for Food Safety & Quality to join our team in Othello as a Quality Supervisor! If you thrive on change and continuous improvement, enjoy identifying efficiencies and motivating others to do the same, this might be the position for you!
As the successful candidate, you will be responsible for supervising daily functions of QC personnel, ensuring products meet quality standards through verification and reviews, assisting plant teams with daily functions, as related to product quality and food safety. You will also be responsible for the selection, training, and supervising of Quality leads and Quality technicians. Additionally, you will participate in the continuous improvement process, providing your expertise in improvements that may impact or affect Food Safety.
Key Responsibilities:
- Promotes and leads in company safety work rules and regulations.
- Guide and mentor, the Quality Control Technicians, Quality Control Leads, Quality Control Coordinator, and Bacteria Technicians and ensure performance is accurate and in compliance with established procedures.
- Participates in continuous improvement process.
- Helps to build and promote a strong “Teamwork” environment in each individual work group, the Factory, and the Company.
- Research and answer customer complaints.
- Prepare product cuttings, data collection, report analysis, & lead safety meetings on monthly basis.
- Communicates and collaborates with other production supervisors with any problems or changes in department and policies.
- Understands and adheres to the concepts and techniques of the quality process
- Ensures working areas are clean and orderly in accordance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s).
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science or Business Administration
- 2 years of Supervisory experience in a food manufacturing setting preferred
- Microbiology Experience an asset
- Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) experience an asset
- Champion of Change
- Able to coach, mentor, and develop team members
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Why You Should Join Our Team:
McCain offers full benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance. In addition, we offer other benefits including:
- 401k
- Health Spending Account/ HRA & Flexible Spending Accounts
- Adoption & Infertility Assistance, Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
- Education Reimbursement Assistance
- Apprenticeship, Internship, & Coop support and opportunities
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- Holidays
- Life Insurance, AD&D, Short- & Long-Term Disability
Salary Range: $70,000 – $75,000 USD annually + Benefits (+ 6% TIP Bonus)
The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for the position at the time of posting. Within the range, exact compensation will be determined based on education/training, skill set, experience, and other organizational needs.
About McCain:
McCain Foods is proud to be a family and values-driven company. Our values are integral to our culture, helping to shape how we operate, how we work together and the choices we make. They are a big part of what makes us unique. McCain Foods opened their first production facility in their hometown of Florenceville, New Brunswick, Canada. McCain Foods quickly established itself within the Canadian marketplace and then began a journey to become the world’s largest manufacturer of frozen French fries and potato specialties.
McCain products can be found in thousands of restaurants and supermarket freezers around the world. In addition to fries, McCain also produces other foods, including appetizers, oven meals, vegetables and juice for both the retail and foodservice industries.
McCain Food’s facility in Othello Washington recently completed a 170 thousand square foot addition and multiple upgrades, now employs over 500 people! In line with our values and our overall global commitment to sustainability, this investment also brings environmental efficiencies, reducing the facility’s carbon footprint while doubling its production, underlining McCain’s commitment to sustainability.
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Sustainability and Plant Friendly Practices are at the Heart of McCain:
We’ve embarked upon a journey to create planet-friendly food. Food that will use fewer natural resources in factories and farms, answer the need of increasingly health and planet-conscious consumers, and contribute to positive change in the rural communities where we grow our ingredients.
- We are moving to 100% renewable energy by 2030.
- Donating 200 million meals to food banks and NGO worldwide by 2025.
- Implementing regenerative agricultural practices across 100% of our potato acreage by 2030.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
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Job Family: Quality & Food Safety
Division: NA Operations
Department: Quality A/C
Location(s): US – United States of America : Washington : Othello || US – United States of America : Washington : Seattle
Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.