FSQA Lead at Aspire Bakeries

Aspire Bakeries is a North American baking company with a leadership position in specialty frozen baked goods. Formed from leading bakery companies, its innovative food portfolio includes breads, artisan breads, buns, cookies, donuts, muffins and pastries from beloved brands like La Brea Bakery®, Otis Spunkmeyer®, and Oakrun Farm Bakery®. With 13 bakeries in North America, we are committed to driving innovation, predicting upcoming consumer trends and flavors, and exceeding our customers’ expectations. Aspire Bakeries champions the values of Integrity, Ownership, Customer Focus, Creativity and Care to help us deliver on People Safety, Food Safety, Quality and Collaboration.

As an FSQA Lead, you will play a critical role in ensuring the safety and quality of our products. You will oversee a team of Quality Assurance technicians, coordinate quality assurance and food safety activities, and contribute to the development and implementation of our overall quality programs. Your expertise in food safety, attention to detail, and ability to effectively lead and motivate your team will be essential to your success in this role. You will be responsible for ensuring that our products meet the highest standards of quality and compliance.

Responsibilities:

• Plan Quality Assurance and food safety tasks to be followed on the floor by proper use of the Production Schedule.

• Ensures that Quality Assurance techs, specifications, pictures, labels and any other Quality Assurance tools are properly issued on time to the floor based on production schedules.

• Make sure all Good Manufacturing Practices Audits, glass/plastic audits, et cetera are completed.

• Oversee daily duties of other Quality Assurance technicians on shift.

• Perform and follow-up on the Finish Product dimensional check.

• Perform and follow-up on product Control Attributes Product analysis for products that require such analysis.

• Be the lead person on the proper ingredients and bags inspections and follow-up on the planned inspections on your shift.

• Assist Quality Assurance technicians on proper line cleaning verification, foreign body investigation, et cetera.

• Assist FSQA Supervisors with overseeing daily workload for each technician on each shift. As needed, assist with covering the shift in the absence of a Quality Assurance technician.

• Responsible for training new Quality Assurance technicians and assist them in problem solving with Production personnel.

• Coordinate communication of quality assurance and/or food safety issues with the production supervisory personnel and FSQA leadership.

• Generates the Non-conformance reports and follows-up on ingredients placed on hold.

• Maintain and improve on the quality, legality and safety of each product and the processes used in their manufacture.

• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• High School diploma or General Equivalency Diploma (GED) required.

• Minimum 2 years relevant food safety and quality assurance experience in an automated food processing plant.

• Ability to communicate in English and Spanish.

• To perform this job successfully, an individual should have basic computer skills.

Aspire Bakeries is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.