Quality Assurance Shift Supervisor - Food Manufacturing

ABOUT SNACK INNOVATIONS

Snack Innovations is a growing manufacturer of better-for-you salty snack foods in Piscataway, New Jersey. We produce snack chips, sticks, straws, curls, and popcorn.

QUALITY ASSURANCE SHIFT SUPERVISOR | $28–$36 PER HOUR | PISCATAWAY, NJ

Opportunities are available across first, second, and third shifts. Candidates may indicate their preferred shift; final assignments will reflect business needs.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Quality Assurance Shift Supervisor leads food-safety and quality activities on an assigned manufacturing shift. This is a hands-on floor leadership role responsible for directing Quality Technicians, protecting product integrity, and responding decisively to food-safety or quality risks.

Successful candidates will bring direct food-manufacturing Quality experience and practical knowledge of HACCP or Food Safety Plans, critical control points, environmental monitoring programs, root-cause analysis, and corrective and preventive actions. They must also have demonstrated experience leading, coaching, and holding employees accountable.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Lead the daily work of Quality Technicians, including assignments, coverage, priorities, coaching, and follow-up.
• Ensure start-up, in-process, changeover, and finished-product checks are completed at required frequencies and against approved specifications.
• Monitor critical control points and respond appropriately to deviations, product holds, and nonconforming materials.
• Support and maintain HACCP and facility Food Safety Plan requirements.
• Oversee environmental monitoring, sanitation verification, allergen controls, GMPs, traceability, and metal-detector activities.
• Lead or support investigations, root-cause analysis, corrective and preventive actions, audits, mock recalls, and product trials.
• Review Quality records for accuracy, completeness, and timely escalation.
• Oversee product testing, including weight, moisture, sodium, nitrogen, bulk density, appearance, flavor, packaging integrity, and coding.
• Partner with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Quality leadership to resolve shift-level issues while protecting product integrity.
• Provide effective shift handoffs and communicate unresolved concerns to the appropriate leaders.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Three or more years of Quality experience in food or beverage manufacturing.
• Hands-on experience with HACCP or Food Safety Plans, critical control points, environmental monitoring, root-cause analysis, and corrective actions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, and hold employees accountable through formal supervision or meaningful lead responsibility.
• Experience handling out-of-specification results, product holds, deviations, and escalation decisions.
• Working knowledge of GMPs, preventive controls, allergen controls, sanitation verification, and food-manufacturing Quality practices.
• Ability to interpret product specifications, sampling plans, written procedures, and Quality records.
• Strong judgment, problem-solving, communication, organization, and recordkeeping skills.
• Ability to work an assigned shift, including nights, weekends, overtime, or schedule changes based on production needs.
• High school diploma or GED.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Associate degree or technical coursework in food science, biology, chemistry, or a related field.
• Experience supervising Quality Technicians in a high-volume manufacturing environment.
• Bilingual English/Spanish.

Join a growing food manufacturer where Quality leadership directly affects consumer safety, product consistency, and operational success.