Quality Supervisor
Company: Bel Brands USA
Location: Little Chute
Posted on: June 1, 2025
Job Description:
Country: United States
City: Little Chute
Job Family: Quality Regulations Expertise
Contract Type: Unlimited-term
Job ID: 52075
Quality Supervisor
You know our brands, The Laughing Cow, Babybel, Boursin, Kaukauna,
Merkts and Price's, which elicit smiles across America. They are
daring, responsible and deliver dairy goodness. As you imagine,
this mindset is contagious! Bel Brands USA is part of an
international family company, which has led an ambitious growth
strategy for 150 years and is today the world's third largest
branded cheese company. If like our 12,000 employees globally, you
want to have an impact in an entrepreneurial and demanding company,
and share smiles around the world, dare to live the Bel
experience!Be you. Be ambitious. Be Bel.
Bel Brands USA has been named Chicago's "101 Best and Brightest
Companies to Work For" for 10 years in a row. The company is
headquartered in Chicago and operates three manufacturing plants in
Little Chute, WI, Leitchfield, KY, and Brookings, SD. Job
Description Summary The Supervisor, Quality Control is responsible
for coordinating all laboratory activities on site. Bringing
together their managerial skills, knowledge of food safety, lab
procedures, employee safety and environment to ensure the
laboratory operates smoothly. Essential Duties and
Responsibilities
- Inspirationally lead and develop the lab team.
- Conducts regular staff meetings and team building.
- Demonstrate a passion for the safety-first mindset-both
employee safety and food safety.
- Evaluate current lab processes, procedures, work instructions
and test methods. Propose solutions for continual improvements in
the lab in relation to quality control systems and via analysis of
results.
- Set vision for department, following up on both short- and
long-term objectives for their self and team.
- Manage reporting daily results of micro and analytical testing
to daily production meeting.
- Approve, manage, and evaluate training of lab personnel to
ensure understanding and compliance to applicable standards.
- Develop lab training sessions and lab work instructions for the
plant related processes.
- Evaluate lab employees' competency based on lab requirements as
related to their job and teach them new skills through on-the-job
training and Quality policies and procedures.
- Manage, monitor, and maintain the laboratory databases;
develop, maintain, and review quality control charts; share with
technology team to prepare or review the preparation of control
limits, detection limits, and action levels for laboratory
analyses.
- Establish, coordinate, and monitor the laboratory program; work
closely with QC team to plan, schedule, and implement QC related
activities.
- Manage departmental budget, labor cost and timekeeping.
- Inform Quality Management on lab testing nonconformances.
- Apply technical skills and knowledge of applicable internal and
external guidelines to help improve methods, policies, procedures.
- Ensure proper headcount to support departmental objectives.
- Work in conjunction with the Analyst, Quality Assurance and
Regulatory Affairs and/or Manager, Quality and Regulatory Affairs
to manage the quality of incoming raw materials.
- Ensure all lab supplies and inventory are ordered and
maintained to meet current test turnaround times for finished
products.
- Perform statistical calculations relating to test data. Enter
and teach entry of test data into the SAP Quartz module, Excel
spreadsheets and Monthly Quality Summary. Modify Quartz UDS as
needed to match plant control plan for Mini Baby Bel and Laughing
Cow products.
- Oversee data entry into Quartz module.
- Provide back-up to Analyst, Quality Assurance and Regulatory
Affairs and Sr. Manager, Quality and Regulatory Affairs Positions
as needed.
- Obtains certification for and perform both internal and
supplier audits. Participate in facility GMP audits.
- Define and follow all Good Laboratory practices, clean up and
housekeeping procedures. Comply with all quality, safety, and
work-rule requirements. Oversee weekly 5S audits and sanitation in
the laboratory for timely completion.
- Monitor lab data trends for continual improvement activities,
corrective action, and proficiency performance.
- Participates as member of IMS (Integrated Management System)
team, is an and advocate for employee safety, food safety, quality,
environment sustainability.
- Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices as stated within the
policy.
- Follow all Safety Rules and procedures by working safely and
ensuring safety of others.
- Follow all food safety procedures.
- Follow all sanitation procedures and work instructions.
- Follow all environmental protocols as applicable to job to
prevent pollution to air, land or water.
- Follow all continuous improvement actions and rules and best
practices.
- Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management.
Qualifications and Competencies
- Preferred education generally equivalent to a college degree in
Microbiology, Chemistry, Food Science or related field.
- Ability to acquire State, HACCP, Auditor and PCQI
certifications to perform all QA Laboratory testing procedures and
IMS team member responsibilities.
- Strongly prefer 1 to 3 years' experience in laboratory testing
techniques in a dairy and/or food processing environment. Specific
competencies required:
- Must be knowledgeable of food, milk, dairy, and cheese specific
test methods and techniques.
- Must be very familiar with microbiology and testing techniques
as related to food. If not familiar with these techniques, person
must be comfortable to learn these informal and non-formal
settings.
- Must demonstrate leadership ability in managing direct reports,
exercise disciplinary measures, and coordinate lab coverage as
daily workload demands.
- Must be able to train and evaluate Lab Technicians to perform
daily testing tasks in milk, analytical, micro, and miscellaneous
laboratory tasks as assigned.
- Ability to read, understand and implement laboratory
procedures.
- Ability to function as a team member and contribute to group
goals.
- Ability to operate a variety of office and laboratory equipment
such as a personal computer, texture analyzer, incubator, PH
meters, salt analyzer, scales, slide box and hot air oven.
- Requires good knowledge of testing procedures and documentation
techniques.
- Requires excellent interpersonal and written and verbal
communication skills, as well as excellent project management
skills.
- Good judgment concerning communications, managing employees,
and managing the lab activities.
- Lean manufacturing experience a plus. Performance Expectations
Confidentiality, quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and
thoroughness of work performed; ability to gain the trust and
respect of management, direct reports and coworkers; maintain the
integrity of confidential business and product information; ability
to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships
with other employees is essential to accomplish goals and
objectives of the department. Physical Demands The physical demands
described here are representative of those that must be met by an
employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this
job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is
frequently required to use hands to touch objects or controls. The
employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above
shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear. The employee
must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must
occasionally lift up to 25 pounds collecting samples and performing
laboratory tests. Specific vision requirements of this job include
close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception,
and the ability to adjust focus. Working Conditions Work is
performed in an office and manufacturing environment. Hours of work
will generally be during regular business hours with at least 40
hours a week. At times there will be some variation in work hours
due to special projects, deadlines and other concerns. Employee is
required to frequently stand and walk through the plant and is
required to inspect equipment. All safety and quality guidelines
must be adhered to when working in the plant. The employee
occasionally works in proximity to fumes or air-born particles,
toxic or caustic chemicals, and in non-weather related extreme
cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.
The physical demands described here are representative of those
that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the
essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be
made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the
essential functions. Bel Brands is an equal employment opportunity
employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for
employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual
orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected
veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by
applicable federal, state, or local laws. Bel Brands also prohibits
harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these
protected categories. It is also Bel Brand's policy to comply with
all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting
consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.
Bel Brands is committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting people
with disabilities and veterans. If you need an accommodation or
assistance in using the website, please call 312-462-1500. If you
think that this job is for you, please click now on the button
"Apply".
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Keywords: Bel Brands USA, Waukesha , Quality Supervisor, Accounting, Auditing , Little Chute, Wisconsin
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