Quality Assurance Supervisor Jobs

Background & Purpose of the Job

The Quality Supervisor role is part of the North America Quality Team. The main purpose of the role is to drive the highest quality standards through the innovation process by ensuring compliance to our Unilever and factory specifications, standards and policies. The role will be focused one ensuring highest level of quality control and assurance activities in our laboratory and production environment.

Who You Are

• You have a passion for quality: You will be the voice of the consumer for innovation projects, always considering what is best for them.
• You’re a changemaker: You influence team members to develop creative solutions to new and existing challenges.
• You’re a dot connector: You will view the project landscape through the eyes of the consumer as well as the business.
• You’re a born leader: You will have the opportunity to lead meetings with cross-functional team members and drive decisions to achieve one common goal.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborates with R&D and others in Supply Chain to enable key work streams driving our business growth
• Maintains and organizes D-Incident investigations and tracks issues using SAP, coordinating D-Incident management with production, and managing business waste budget. Maintains Laboratory testing equipment and quality related digital solutions.
• Supports site during external audits such as CFIA, FDA , GFSI (FSSC 22000) and customer FSQ programs
• Oversee day to day operations of the laboratory
• Ensure quality program skill and training programs implemented for site.
• Drives continuous improvements and investigation for consumer complaints
• Provides technical expertise (SME) to support risk identification and mitigation strategies
• Quality representative for Innovation projects to drive compliance, growth, and consumer love.
• Provides Quality updates to Category to key stakeholders
• Assist in sanitation programs providing technical support an asset
• Develops and implements validations, testing, inspection procedures and statistical analysis to incoming materials, in process, and finished products to ensure product compliance with GMPs, food safety, and company specifications.
• Research product defects recommending modifications in products or standards and prepares necessary reports and action plans.
• Works hand in hand with production and logistics supervisors to guide and troubleshoot issues related to quality on a day-to-day basis. Develops knowledge of operations to act as a reference for other departments and develop a culture of quality driven mindset. Provides QA technical support to all site departments including production, maintenance, facilities, and engineering as required to achieve business goals.
• Ensure compliance to our factory standards, specifications and GMPs. Will ensure effectiveness via use of assessment/audit and CAPA that supports the findings.
• Support the Quality Management System improvement process for the most relevant topics including SAP-QM and QualityOne (Veeva).
• Leads sprint teams to quickly address and resolve Quality issues in both systems and processes.

What You’ll Need To Succeed

• Demonstrated leader of functional working teams
• Proven effective in collaboration and communication
• Applied knowledge of GMP, HACCP, ISO 22716, Allergen Management, Food Safety, FSSC 22000, FDA 21 CFR 210, etc.
• Basic proficiency in MS tools (Excel, Power BI, PPT) and UL Business Systems (SAP, PLM)
• Post Secondary and/or University degree in technical discipline or general sciences. Preferred: Biology, Microbiology, or Chemistry
• An affinity for change management and digital solutions
• Preferred 3 years of experience in Supply Chain Quality or R&D, additional experience in Manufacturing a plus.

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Unilever Canada is an organization committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national or ethnic origin, marital status, family status, disability, genetic characteristics, and a conviction for which a pardon has been granted.

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Unilever Canada est une organisation engagé à la diversité et à l'inclusion pour stimuler nos résultats d'affaires et créer un meilleur avenir chaque jour pour nos employés, les consommateurs globaux, les partenaires et les communautés. Nous croyons qu'un effectif diversifiée nous permet de faire correspondre nos ambitions de croissance et de stimuler l'inclusion dans l'entreprise. Tous les candidats qualifiés recevront la considération pour un emploi sans égard à la race, la couleur, la religion, le sexe, l'orientation sexuelle, l'identité ou l'expression de genre, l'âge, l'origine nationale ou ethnique, l'état matrimonial, la situation familiale, l'invalidité, les caractéristiques génétique, et une condamnation pour laquelle un pardon a été accordée.

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