Quality Assurance Supervisor

Find your future at National Beef!

Iowa Premium of Tama, Iowa is seeking to hire a highly qualified professional to join our team as a Quality Assurance Supervisor.  With competitive pay and benefits, safe and stable work, and an environment that is caring and supportive, Iowa Premium could become your next career move! 

Competitive wages and benefits:

• Family-friendly benefits including health, vision and dental
• 401K Retirement Plan with company match
• Paid Vacation
• Employee Meat Purchase Sales
• Paid Life Insurance

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Quality Assurance Supervisor responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Implementing the training of new hires, cross-training activities, and development of entirely new functions
• Working with the Technical Services Manager in determining training programs and regimens
• Motivating the Technical Services Technicians to ensure that they are executing the functions that they have been assigned in a way that is consistent to the training and overall function requirements
• Executing the daily schedule of supervising in alignment with the department and company priorities to ensure that Safety, Food Safety, Quality, and overall margin enhancement are impacted by the daily activities
  • Including determining scheduling of Technical Services Technicians start time, activities while at the job, and finish time
  • Ensuring that employees are following time and attendance requirements, time clock requirements, recording, documenting, and communicating all activities associated with the scheduling
  • Daily “Kronos” time records review and acceptance/denial
• Interviewing and discussing with the Technical Services Manager the hiring decision when Technical Services Technicians jobs become available
• Meeting the legal supervisory requirements of National Beef; this includes all OSHA and EEO requirements
• Documenting and communicating Safety, Food Safety, Quality, and other issues to Hourly Production Employees, Operations Management, and other management employees in the plant
• Helping to ensure the facility adheres to all USDA FSIS rules and regulations, plant programs, 3rd party audits requirements, etc.
• Helping to ensure the facility adheres to customer specifications
• Daily monitoring of sanitation practices to ensure that the sanitation standards are met
• Frequent (throughout the day) monitoring of Technical Services Technicians and expected parameters to ensure that the safety requirements are met
• Frequent (throughout the day) monitoring of food safety requirements to ensure that the food safety standards and federal legal requirements are met
• Frequent (throughout the week) monitoring of quality requirement parameters to ensure that quality standards are met
• Communicating and documenting audit findings to Plant Management
• Use of Technical Services Hold Tags to control areas of the plant and product that does not meet the standards of the company
• Use of Personnel forms to document personnel actions
• Follow-up activities to ensure that Technical Services Technicians are properly trained, executing the job as expected
• Other duties as assigned

This is an on-site position.  This is a safety sensitive position.

Qualified Candidates for the Quality Assurance Supervisor position should possess the following:

• High School Diploma or equivalent education
• Exhibited good attendance and work ethics in past jobs
• Good verbal and written communication skills; Must be able to read, write and speak English
• Ability to work well with others as the job has inherent conflict and confrontational aspects
• Computer experience including Microsoft Excel and Word 
• Ability to lead and motivate others to perform required activities

Must be at least 18 years of age or older.

Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to provide visa sponsorship at this time.

Iowa Premium, a National Beef Company, is dedicated to being the premier supplier of premium family farm-raised corn-fed Black Angus beef. Our employees are key to our success. We offer a variety of employment opportunities in our production and packaging facility in Southeast Iowa.  We strive to be a preferred employer in Tama County, whether it's measured by the number of people employed or the good we do in the community.  Come join our family!

National Beef is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, natural origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, or status as a disabled individual.