Quality Assurance Team Leader

Fresh Del Monte

Quality Assurance Team Leader overseeing all aspects of QA at Port Gloucester facility. Ensuring compliance with safety regulations and maintaining quality standards.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeGloucester City • New Jersey • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $65,000 - $70,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Provides guidance to the production floor and QA techs by performing routine walkthroughs and audits of both personnel and processes.
Enforces adherence to Primus, FDA, FSMA, USDA regulations.
Ensures HACCP, FSMA, federal, local, and company rules and regulations are adhered to throughout the facility.
Perform/oversee quality inspections and product temperature checks for all products arriving to the port.
Supervise quality control inspection requirements at the facility.
Ensure that Del Monte quality standards are maintained at all times.
Generate and distribute quality reports in a timely and accurate manner.
Perform/oversee daily re-inspections of warehouse products.
Maintains the allergen program, through production scheduling and separation, which satisfies USDA, FDA, FSMA, and Primus requirements, without a formal allergen room.
Production software (Produce Pro) key user and trainer for the Facility.
Ensures compliance of DM procedures, emergency action plan, sanitation plan, recall plan, GMPs, and other related food safety and quality programs.
Maintains a specific QA program for the facility, including equipment calibrations, document review, verification, training, and direct observations.
Maintains compliance with product specifications and special handling procedures for USDA and FDA products.
Collects quality information to generate reports in order to keep the appropriate performance of the QA department.
Micro results are shared with appropriate parties through electronic or physical records.
Maintains open communication with all Managers and Corporate QA about findings and potential issues, to ensure that DM products quality is maintained at all times.
Helps develop new methodologies by providing solutions to quality issues, food safety, reviewing shelf life, labels, and auditing processes on the inspection room and coolers.
Assists with the implementation and review of quality assurance procedures.
Actively participates in department audits and conducts corrective actions for any findings.

Requirements

What you’ll need

1 to 2 years previous work experience in fresh cut or produce operations.
Knowledge of Microsoft Office programs (i.e. Word, Excel and Outlook).
Ability to multi-task.
Training on GMPs and food safety.
Proven working experience as a Quality Supervisor/Quality Technician.
Ability to train others (QC Technicians and Inspectors).
Experience in collecting and analyzing data.
Ability to lift 40lb boxes of produce.
Transportation Workers Identification Card (TWIC) to work on the Port facility.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance
401(k) with company match
Employer-paid life & disability insurance
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA)
Paid Time Off (PTO)
7 Company Paid Holidays
24/7 Telemedicine & Employee Assistance Program
Optional voluntary benefits (legal, accident, identity protection)
Eligibility on the first of the month following your hire date

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Hard Skills & Tools

quality inspectionstemperature checksdata collectiondata analysisGMPsHACCPfood safetyquality assurance proceduresequipment calibrationsauditing processes

Soft Skills

guidancecommunicationmulti-taskingtrainingsupervisionproblem-solvingcollaborationattention to detailleadershipcorrective actions

Certifications

Transportation Workers Identification Card (TWIC)