Food Science- Quality Assurance Lab Lead

QA Lead- Food Lab- Swedesboro, NJAs the Quality Assurance Lead- Food Lab, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing and elevating our quality standards across the entire plant supply chain. Your mission? To lead, innovate, and execute our Food Safety Plan (FSP) while providing expert guidance to cross-functional teams. You will be the driving force behind resolving quality issues, ensuring compliance, and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.Key Responsibilities• Lead and Inspire: Supervise and mentor the Quality Assurance team, ensuring adherence to company policies, quality standards, and applicable laws. Foster a collaborative and proactive team environment.• Problem Solver Extraordinaire: Conduct root cause analyses and employ advanced problem-solving techniques to tackle quality issues, including product holds, customer complaints, and GMP-related concerns.• Metrics Mastermind: Track, report, and analyze performance metrics aligned with company objectives. Identify trends, develop action plans, and close performance gaps.• Quality Guardian: Oversee non-conforming material processes to ensure proper segregation and disposition. Partner with Production, Sanitation, and Warehousing departments to enforce GMPs and preventive controls.• Audit Champion: Prepare plants for governmental, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd party audits (including SQF). Conduct internal audits on production and storage areas, procedures, policies, and programs to ensure compliance.• Continuous Improvement Leader: Identify opportunities to reduce waste, rework, and inefficiencies. Utilize statistical tools to assess processes and track progress, driving continuous process improvement.• Compliance and Calibration Expert: Act as the primary representative for QA lab equipment and oversee the calibration of plant scales and balances. Provide backup support for Compliance Analyst, Quality Analyst, or Quality Technician as needed.• Budget and Resource Steward: Review adherence to budget on a monthly basis and manage resources effectively to achieve quality goals.As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.Why Kelly® Science & Clinical?Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it’s the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.About KellyWork changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.Kelly Services is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. We welcome, value, and embrace diversity at all levels and are committed to building a team that is inclusive of a variety of backgrounds, communities, perspectives, and abilities. At Kelly, we believe that the more inclusive we are, the better services we can provide. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to Kelly’s Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.