? (6/25/2025) Quality Supervisor

Company: Bel Brands USA
Location: Little Chute
Posted on: June 26, 2025

Job Description:

Country: United States City: Little Chute Job Family: Quality Regulations Expertise Contract Type: Unlimited-term Job ID: 52075 Quality Supervisor You know our brands, The Laughing Cow, Babybel, Boursin, Kaukauna, Merkts and Price's, which elicit smiles across America. They are daring, responsible and deliver dairy goodness. As you imagine, this mindset is contagious! Bel Brands USA is part of an international family company, which has led an ambitious growth strategy for 150 years and is today the world's third largest branded cheese company. If like our 12,000 employees globally, you want to have an impact in an entrepreneurial and demanding company, and share smiles around the world, dare to live the Bel experience! Be you. Be ambitious. Be Bel. Bel Brands USA has been named Chicago's "101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For" for 10 years in a row. The company is headquartered in Chicago and operates three manufacturing plants in Little Chute, WI, Leitchfield, KY, and Brookings, SD. Job Description Summary The Supervisor, Quality Control is responsible for coordinating all laboratory activities on site. Bringing together their managerial skills, knowledge of food safety, lab procedures, employee safety and environment to ensure the laboratory operates smoothly. Essential Duties and Responsibilities - Inspirationally lead and develop the lab team. - Conducts regular staff meetings and team building. - Demonstrate a passion for the safety-first mindset—both employee safety and food safety. - Evaluate current lab processes, procedures, work instructions and test methods. Propose solutions for continual improvements in the lab in relation to quality control systems and via analysis of results. - Set vision for department, following up on both short- and long-term objectives for their self and team. - Manage reporting daily results of micro and analytical testing to daily production meeting. - Approve, manage, and evaluate training of lab personnel to ensure understanding and compliance to applicable standards. - Develop lab training sessions and lab work instructions for the plant related processes. - Evaluate lab employees’ competency based on lab requirements as related to their job and teach them new skills through on-the-job training and Quality policies and procedures. - Manage, monitor, and maintain the laboratory databases; develop, maintain, and review quality control charts; share with technology team to prepare or review the preparation of control limits, detection limits, and action levels for laboratory analyses. - Establish, coordinate, and monitor the laboratory program; work closely with QC team to plan, schedule, and implement QC related activities. - Manage departmental budget, labor cost and timekeeping. - Inform Quality Management on lab testing nonconformances. - Apply technical skills and knowledge of applicable internal and external guidelines to help improve methods, policies, procedures. - Ensure proper headcount to support departmental objectives. - Work in conjunction with the Analyst, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs and/or Manager, Quality and Regulatory Affairs to manage the quality of incoming raw materials. - Ensure all lab supplies and inventory are ordered and maintained to meet current test turnaround times for finished products. - Perform statistical calculations relating to test data. Enter and teach entry of test data into the SAP Quartz module, Excel spreadsheets and Monthly Quality Summary. Modify Quartz UDS as needed to match plant control plan for Mini Baby Bel and Laughing Cow products. - Oversee data entry into Quartz module. - Provide back-up to Analyst, Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs and Sr. Manager, Quality and Regulatory Affairs Positions as needed. - Obtains certification for and perform both internal and supplier audits. Participate in facility GMP audits. - Define and follow all Good Laboratory practices, clean up and housekeeping procedures. Comply with all quality, safety, and work-rule requirements. Oversee weekly 5S audits and sanitation in the laboratory for timely completion. - Monitor lab data trends for continual improvement activities, corrective action, and proficiency performance. - Participates as member of IMS (Integrated Management System) team, is an and advocate for employee safety, food safety, quality, environment sustainability. - Follow all Good Manufacturing Practices as stated within the policy. - Follow all Safety Rules and procedures by working safely and ensuring safety of others. - Follow all food safety procedures. - Follow all sanitation procedures and work instructions. - Follow all environmental protocols as applicable to job to prevent pollution to air, land or water. - Follow all continuous improvement actions and rules and best practices. - Perform other miscellaneous duties as assigned by management. Qualifications and Competencies - Preferred education generally equivalent to a college degree in Microbiology, Chemistry, Food Science or related field. - Ability to acquire State, HACCP, Auditor and PCQI certifications to perform all QA Laboratory testing procedures and IMS team member responsibilities. - Strongly prefer 1 to 3 years’ experience in laboratory testing techniques in a dairy and/or food processing environment. Specific competencies required: - Must be knowledgeable of food, milk, dairy, and cheese specific test methods and techniques. - Must be very familiar with microbiology and testing techniques as related to food. If not familiar with these techniques, person must be comfortable to learn these informal and non-formal settings. - Must demonstrate leadership ability in managing direct reports, exercise disciplinary measures, and coordinate lab coverage as daily workload demands. - Must be able to train and evaluate Lab Technicians to perform daily testing tasks in milk, analytical, micro, and miscellaneous laboratory tasks as assigned. - Ability to read, understand and implement laboratory procedures. - Ability to function as a team member and contribute to group goals. - Ability to operate a variety of office and laboratory equipment such as a personal computer, texture analyzer, incubator, PH meters, salt analyzer, scales, slide box and hot air oven. - Requires good knowledge of testing procedures and documentation techniques. - Requires excellent interpersonal and written and verbal communication skills, as well as excellent project management skills. - Good judgment concerning communications, managing employees, and managing the lab activities. - Lean manufacturing experience a plus. Performance Expectations Confidentiality, quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability, and thoroughness of work performed; ability to gain the trust and respect of management, direct reports and coworkers; maintain the integrity of confidential business and product information; ability to communicate effectively and develop good working relationships with other employees is essential to accomplish goals and objectives of the department. Physical Demands The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to touch objects or controls. The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must occasionally lift up to 25 pounds collecting samples and performing laboratory tests. Specific vision requirements of this job include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. Working Conditions Work is performed in an office and manufacturing environment. Hours of work will generally be during regular business hours with at least 40 hours a week. At times there will be some variation in work hours due to special projects, deadlines and other concerns. Employee is required to frequently stand and walk through the plant and is required to inspect equipment. All safety and quality guidelines must be adhered to when working in the plant. The employee occasionally works in proximity to fumes or air-born particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and in non-weather related extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Bel Brands is an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, disability status or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Bel Brands also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Bel Brand’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions. Bel Brands is committed to recruiting, hiring and promoting people with disabilities and veterans. 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