Job Description

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

Qualifications

Requirements

*1-2 years of experience working in a food manufacturing environment

*Experience in bakery, food manufacturing, or ready-to-eat food production.

*SQF, HACCP, PCQI, GMP, allergen, or internal auditor training preferred.

*Experience with pre-op inspections, sanitation verification, environmental monitoring, and customer audits.

*Prior supervisory or lead experience in FSQA, Quality, Sanitation, or Production.

*Responsibilities related to food safety and quality

* Self-directed
* Detail oriented
* Confident
* Strong Communicator
* Experience with Microsoft Office
* Ability to work with cross functional teams

EOE/AA