Quality Assurance Supervisor

Overview

WHO WE ARE: CALIFIA FARMS

Rooted in California, Califia Farms is on a mission to create a future where plants replace dairy, without compromise. The company creates a variety of great-tasting plant-based beverages that make the transition to eating plant-based dairy easy and delicious. Califia Farms is one of the fastest-growing, independently owned, natural beverage companies in the U.S., the UK and Australia, and is well-known for its iconic curvy bottle. Califia Farms was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in the downtown Los Angeles Arts District, with a manufacturing facility in Bakersfield, Calif. The company's culture is built around four core values: passion for purpose, insights into action, fierce interdependence, and challenger spirit.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the implementation of directed quality efforts in the plant

• Manages, follows and monitors GMP, HACCP, IIPP, Food Safety and SOPs guidelines

• Audits and maintains production logs and other paperwork as needed for proper documentation

• Authorized to approve HACCP documentation and perform internal audits

• Manages all lab personnel via direct reporting structure

• Manages all shift personnel via a dotted-line reporting structure

• Works with management to discuss, diagnose problems and improve quality and efficiency

• Communicates plant issue's and operations with management

• Responsible for upholding food safety standards in the plant including being HACCP certified

• Assists in providing safe working conditions for all employees

• Develops and maintains positive and professional relationships with all employees and management

• Works with production department to improve quality of product

• Monitors and maintains inventory and reorders if items need to be reordered

• Optimizes plant efficiency and coordinates plant needs accordingly

• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree or appropriate equivalent from an accredited university

• Minimum 5 years' experience in food manufacturing

• Ability to speak, write, and read English is a must, some Spanish a plus

• Ability to stand, kneel, bend over, climb stairs and ladders and lift/move up to 50 pounds

• Must possess good mechanical, communication and people skills

• Must be able to follow and communicate directions

• Must be able to add, subtract, multiply, divide in all units of measure and compute rate, ratio and percentage

• Proficient in Microsoft programs

Salary Range: $75,000-$90,000 Annually

Califia Farms is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Califia Farms is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.