Quality Supervisor
Huhtamaki · Los Angeles, CA
- Level
- Supervisor
- Team
- Quality
- Degree
- Required
- Industry
- Packaging
- Posted
- 30+ days ago
The role in 30 seconds
A supervisor quality role at Huhtamaki (packaging) in Los Angeles, CA. Implement, maintain and continuously review/improve quality-awareness programs and data collection systems.
- They ask for
- degree required
- Tools it names
- FDA / GMP, Internal audits, EHS / safety
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How this role compares
Against 37 other live quality postings in California.
- Experience asked
- Not stated
Similar roles usually ask 4+ years.
Skills these teams ask for most
- ✓ Team leadership 47%
- Root cause 47%
- GD&T 24%
- ISO 9001 24%
- AS9100 21%
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Stands out: this posting asks for FDA / GMP, EHS / safety, which few similar roles mention. If you have it, lead with it.
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Job Summary
A member of the Site Leadership Team (SLT) support and participate in all Safety programs and initiatives. Manage and continuously improve quality systems, forest sustainability and food safety programs. Ensure the highest results in all government, customer, 3rd party and internal audits and inspections. Ensure all materials used to manufacture products and finished goods remain within specifications. Provide support in the resolution of customer complaints through management of the customer complaint system. Support the Continuous Improvement (CI) program.
Essential Functions
- ◆Develop and implement cost-effective inspection procedures and techniques consistent with company and customer requirements.
- ◆Implement, maintain and continuously review/improve quality-awareness programs and data collection systems.
- ◆Communicate with customer contacts concerning any issues regularly.
- ◆Visit customers and trouble-shoot problems and support start-up of new products.
- ◆Assist customers with sampling of new materials or packaging.
- ◆Prepare and lead plant through SQF systems audits and lead internal HACCP and Internal Audit Teams.
- ◆Oversee food packaging safety for location and assigned customers.
- ◆Coordinate and execute customer audits/certification (SQF, IMS, FSC, etc.)
- ◆Train manufacturing personnel on quality requirements, test procedures, etc.
- ◆Team with Engineering and Operations Managers and the CI Leader for new product on boarding and new machinery start-up to ensure all food safety
requirements
are met.
- ✓Manage the material qualification (MQ) program.
- ✓Maintain Quality Hold Area and issue disposition on the materials with a full understanding of how materials are moved through the ERP system.
- ✓Manage the supplier certification program and monitor incoming materials.
- ✓Supervise 1 hourly Quality Technician.
Job
Required
- ✓Ability to communicate well with others orally and in writing.
- ✓Computer literate: MS Office and MRP/ERP experience required.
- ✓Work with frequent interruptions.
- ✓Work with attention to detail and accuracy.
- ✓Three to five years supervisory experience in a quality department in a manufacturing environment.
- ✓Comfortable interacting with all levels of management from corporate to plant labor. Communication and presentation skills for customer inactions is required.
requirements
will be followed.
- ✓PPE
requirements
include, safety glasses, hair covering on head and arms, hearing protection and safety shoes.
- ✓All Federal, LA County Health Department and OSHA
requirements
around Covid are strictly enforced.
Join us. Help protect food, people and the planet .
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Enjoy a career, packaged with care, whilst helping protect food, people and the planet
We are a key global provider of sustainable packaging solutions. We’re on a mission to make all packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable. Every day, we ensure the hygiene and safety of food and drink for people around the world. We are Huhtamaki.
You could be part of our vision. Because it’s our talented people that make it happen. Our people on the shop floor producing innovative, sustainable products. Our people in our offices delivering excellence for our customers every day. It’s every one of us working together.
We offer a place where you can feel safe, be supported, and make an impact so we can all focus on the future together.
Preferred
- +Bachelor’s degree in a technical field.
- +SQF Practitioner and HAACP training preferred, will support both training courses, but must be completed within 6-months of hire.
- +Direct or indirect paperboard food packaging experience preferred.
Environment
- •Works in a professional office environment with normal office noise levels 50% to 75% of the time.
- •Works on the manufacturing floor 25% to 50% of the time depending on the circumstances of the day.
- •While on the manufacturing floor all Safety/GMP/PPE