Bakery, Cleaning Equipment, Coaching, Corrective Action, Documentation, Environmental Monitoring, Food Quality, Food Safety, Food Services, Food and Beverage Industry, Frozen Foods, GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices), Internal Audit, Maintain Compliance, Production Control, Proofreading, Quality Assurance, Quality Management, Quality Metrics, Record Keeping, Regulations, Safety Standards, Sanitation, Staff Training, Startup, Time Management, Traceability, Training/Teaching, Vendor/Supplier Evaluation, Warehousing
Come join the fastest-growing, most innovative bakery in the Midwest!
At the Great Northern Bakery, we create and assemble fresh & frozen food options for our customers nationwide. You will be a key player in helping us achieve operational and quality goals while ensuring safety standards are maintained. We are seeking a motivated Quality Assurance Supervisor who is willing to work in a high-energy, quality first operation.
If you are interested in a career that offers unlimited opportunities with the fastest-growing, most innovative food service company, we want you on our team!
Key Responsibilities
- Monitor daily bakery production to ensure compliance with GMPs, food safety, allergen control, sanitation, and quality standards.
- Support and maintain the facility SQF program, including records, verification activities, corrective actions, and audit preparation.
- Perform routine floor inspections for employee hygiene, handwashing, hairnets, beard nets, uniforms, glove use, and good manufacturing practices.
- Verify production paperwork, CCPs/PCPs, metal detection, weight checks, lot coding, ingredient usage, allergen changeovers, and product quality checks.
- Ensure bakery-specific controls are followed, including foreign material prevention, ingredient handling, proofing/baking controls, cooling, packaging, and finished product release.
- Monitor allergen practices, including ingredient labeling, segregation, rework control, utensil/equipment handling, and changeover cleaning.
- Conduct sanitation inspections before startup and after cleaning to confirm equipment is food-safe.
- Support environmental monitoring, ATP swabbing, pre-op inspections, and corrective actions for sanitation failures.
- Investigate quality or food safety issues, customer complaints, holds, nonconforming product, and production deviations.
- Place product on hold when food safety, quality, labeling, or traceability concerns are identified.
- Train production, sanitation, warehouse, and temporary employees on GMPs, allergen control, food safety, and SQF expectations.
- Assist with internal audits, mock recalls, traceability exercises, supplier documentation, and regulatory/customer audit preparation.
- Partner with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, and Warehouse teams to correct issues quickly and prevent repeat problems.
- Maintain accurate records and ensure paperwork is completed correctly, legibly, and on time.
- Promote a strong food safety culture by holding employees accountable and coaching teams on proper practices.
Bakery-Specific Focus Areas
- Flour, sugar, yeast, fillings, toppings, oils, and ingredient handling.
- Sifter, mixer, bowl, and equipment cleaning verification.
- Proofing, baking, cooling, slicing, and packaging controls.
- Foreign material risks from screens, utensils, belts, pans, racks, and packaging.
- Allergen risks from wheat, milk, egg, soy, sesame, tree nuts, peanuts, or other site-specific allergens.
- Label accuracy and ingredient declaration verification.
- Rework handling and identification.
- Temperature, time, and humidity controls where applicable.
- Mold prevention and post-bake handling controls.
We are proud to offer competitive benefits including:
- Sick time and paid vacation
- 401K
- Long-Term Disability
- Incentive and bonus Eligible
- Competitive Compensation
- Opportunities for Advancement
- On the Bus Line
- Employee Safety is a priority
- Employee Training and Development