Food Safety & Quality Assurance NSIS Supervisor

at Smithfield in Monmouth, Illinois, United States

Job Description

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A great job-and a great future-awaits you at Smithfield Foods. We're an $18 billion U.S. food company with more than 54,000 employees worldwide. We're looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us. Join our family today. Apply Now!

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Our team members receive industry-competitive salaries and are eligible for great benefits packages:

Competitive Pay

Annual Bonus Earning Potential

Earn up to 30% additional pay weekly with our Extended Work Week Compensation Program!*

Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More

Education benefit available to full and part time Smithfield team members on their first day of employment.
*Program eligibilities apply

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As part of our FS/QA team, you would conduct routine sanitation checks, ensuring that HACCP and USDA regulations are strictly enforced. Providing technical expertise to track product from start to finish, and develop corrective actions when needed. You will be responsible for ensuring that we are able to safely deliver the best Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan's Famous, or any of our product brands to customers and consumers.

This position is responsible for ensuring overall regulatory, procedural, policy, and work instruction compliance in barn and harvest areas. This role is expected to conduct accurate inspection, disposition, and documentation of hogs and harvested swine under NSIS inspection. The New Swine Inspection System (NSIS) was developed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to produce a flexible, more efficient, fully integrated meat inspection system. The NSIS system, in contrast with the traditional inspection system, focuses more control for food safety and other consumer protection activities on the establishment with Agency personnel focusing on carcass and verification system activities. The NSIS supervisor is responsible for the training, development, scheduling, and oversight of NSIS sorters. To include sorting, disposition, and verifications of live hogs, heads, carcasses, and viscera. The NSIS Sorter is responsible for ensuring potential food safety hazards occurring from pathological conditions in these items and contamination occurring during processing are identified and control is maintained.
Core Responsibilities

Train and coach sorters to recognize and identify diseases, consumer concerns, and contamination in pork/swine in compliance with Federal Regulation, Directives, and Guidelines.

Ensures product meets definitions of RTC pork.

Manage NSIS and communicate with NSIS sorters, area supervision, and USDA, and helpers to ensure that the correct tag and marking is used to identify, and proper methods used to address carcass/swine pathology and other carcass inspection issues.

Clearly and effectively communicate with USDA officials and Plant Management on technical issues and complete/verify necessary inspection documentation.

Lead trouble shooting and implementation of necessary actions in the event of deviation HACCP, sanitary dressing, or SSOP/SPS issue.

Verify and aid in timely completion of paperwork for the area.

Works with other departments to implement procedure changes, based on predetermined specifications, involving raw materials and finished goods to remedy the cause of any non-compliance as quickly as possible.

Ability to interpret customer and sales specifications and apply subjective quality decisions to product (ie: product appearance, color, texture, etc).

Utilize technical knowledge to prevent and identify the root cause of process or product failures.

Continuous improvement of product quality through attention to process expected.

Additional duties as assigned.

Absence

In the absence of key personnel, the employee's supervisor, or qualified designee (one that has been trained in the key employee's duties) is responsible to complete or delegate the completion of all required tasks and responsibilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications

Bachelor's degree... For full info follow application link.

Smithfield is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) Employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with disability, or any other protected group status or non-job related characteristic as directed by law.