Taylor Fresh Foods, Inc. is dedicated to being North America's favorite maker of salads and healthy fresh foods. Our "Taylor Family" includes over 20,000 team members who are passionate about making high quality, great tasting products for families across North America. As we continue to rapidly grow, we have a career opportunity available for a talented and motivated individual to join our Taylor Farms New Jersey team as Quality Improvement Supervisor.
JOB SUMMARY:
The Quality Improvement Supervisor is responsible for ensuring the overall consistency and quality of manufactured items throughout the production facility. This role will be responsible for ensuring the quality of manufactured items are meeting internal/customer specifications along with customer expectations. A key piece to this role is the ability to implement programs that are executable by the production operators to ensure sustainability. The Quality Improvement Supervisor is also responsible for training and reinforcement training of associates, leads, and Quality improvement coordinators as it relates to quality. This role requires interaction with associates and management but is ultimately a floor driven position as product consistency and quality are driven at the floor level.
Key deliverables include:
Partner with production leads, supervisors and quality leadership to develop and foster consistency around production execution.
Work with Quality and Process Improvement manager to address areas of opportunity for existing product set and around commercialization efforts for new products to be produced in a given production area.
Gather ideas and opportunities from the production floor to come up with quality opportunities.
Help guide production supervision with completion of priority tasks as it relates to quality.
Aid in execution and awareness of all new quality processing procedures.
Work with QIC's and operators on proper builds and portioning during the production run.
Manage day to day of the Quality improvement coordinators.
Qualifications/Skills and Abilities:
Bachelor's degree in related field (industrial engineering, food marketing/production, manufacturing, food science, etc.), preferred.
Minimum 3 years of experience in food manufacturing company, specifically around leafy greens.
Must be a self-starter capable of independently meeting objectives and interacting with members of various teams successfully.
Able to think creatively and strategically.
At home in a manufacturing environment and on the production floor.
Ability to elicit buy-in and cooperation from a variety of individuals as well as departments.
Hands-on, flexible, and responsive to dynamic fast paced work environment.
Capability of multitasking and managing several initiatives.
Strong team player with a continuous improvement mindset.