Full-Time

Quality Assurance Supervisor

Posted on 9/17/2025

Shearers Foods

Shearers Foods

1-10 employees

Manufactures private-label salty snacks

No salary listed

Fort Worth, TX, USA

In Person

Category
QA & Testing (1)
Requirements
  • High school or equivalent degree required; Associate degree with QA leadership or a 4-year bachelor’s degree with QA leadership is preferred
  • 2+ years of experience in a quality assurance management or supervision role, preferably in the food processing industry.
  • Sanitation and Food Safety experience is a plus
Responsibilities
  • Supervises and monitors the activities of employees engaged in conducting tests to determine the quality of raw materials, bulk intermediate, and finished products
  • Ensures behaviors, practices, and the work environment supports a safe and food safe workplace by enforcing safety, Good Manufacturing Practices, and sanitation rules and principles
  • Ensures product quality via periodic auditing of specification adherence
  • Communicate issues and developments identified during quality assurance activities along with corrective actions
  • Customer complaint investigation and root cause analysis
  • Coordinate new hire orientation and annual training for employees relating to quality and food safety programs
  • Utilizes metrics/data to evaluate and improve quality assurance procedures and processes
  • Oversees calibration, maintenance, and repair of quality assurance equipment
  • Monitor, support, and enforce all food safety processes and procedures including SQF, AIB, and customer specific standards
  • Maintains a working knowledge of government and industry quality assurance codes and standards
  • Trained as PCQI, conducts verification/validation of preventative controls
  • Trained as SQF Practitioner
  • Participation in Internal Audits and Food Safety inspections
  • Conducts reviews of non-conforming material (raw, finished product) and ensures product control is maintained and corrective actions are developed
  • Support recall program activities (trace exercises, mass balances, training)
  • Serve as HACCP Coordinator
  • Assists in implementing quality assurance improvement plans to improve quality assurance procedures
  • Plans and establishes work schedules, assignments, and production sequences to meet performance standards
  • Coordinate direct report scheduling to satisfy facility needs
  • Utilizes standard work processes to ensure repeatable performance
  • Monitors quality assurance goals and levels to make sure they are consistent with performance standards
  • Confers with other supervisors to coordinate operations and activities within or between departments
  • Observes quality control equipment and product to ensure that employees conform to quality assurance standards
  • Tracks employees’ work performance and attendance to ensure performance metrics are met
  • Directs employees involved in the quality assurance process
Desired Qualifications
  • Sanitation and Food Safety experience is a plus

Shearer's Foods makes and packages salty snacks, focusing on private-label and contract-pack production for other brands. Its core product line began as hand-cooked kettle chips, made in-house at its Ohio facilities, and the business now services retailers and food companies across North America. How it works: it operates as a full-scale contract manufacturer, handling cooking, processing, packaging and distribution of snacks for private-label brands, with facilities equipped for large-volume production. How it differs: it has a long-standing history of manufacturing from scratch (since 1979), a deep specialization in private-label and contract packing, and a wide geographic footprint supported by private-equity ownership that enables scale and reliability. What it aims for: to be one of the largest private-label salty-snack manufacturers in North America, delivering consistent quality and capacity to retailers and brand owners.

Company Size

1-10

Company Stage

Debt Financing

Total Funding

$53M

Headquarters

Massillon, Ohio

Founded

1974

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Expanded from 5 to 17 plants under prior ownership.
  • Grew to 5,000 employees via automation and safety.
  • $2.1 billion revenue in 2024 shows strong performance.

What critics are saying

  • Lubbock closure lays off 176 due to key customer loss.
  • Oyster cracker recall hits Walmart, Target in 24 states.
  • CD&R forces cost-cuts, disrupts in 18-36 months.

What makes Shearers Foods unique

  • Largest North American private label salty snacks manufacturer.
  • World's biggest kettle-cooked snacks producer.
  • First LEED platinum-certified food plant in Massillon.

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Benefits

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Flexible Spending Account

401(k) Company Match

Short Term Disability

Long Term Disability

Group Critical Accident Insurance

Group Critical Illness Insurance

Employee Assistance Plan

Company News

Taste of Home
Mar 14th, 2025
Cracker Recall: Oyster Crackers Sold at Walmart, Target Recalled Over Metal Contamination

Shearer's Foods, which supplies oyster crackers that are sold as store brands, recently issued a recall in 24 states because of a possible contamination risk.

Cox Media Group
Jan 7th, 2025
Snack food company gets $12.5M in tax credits to build local factory

Shearer's Foods received $12.5 million in federal New Markets Tax Credits for their new facility in Moraine, according to a media release by CityWide Development Corporation.

Powder & Bulk Solids
May 1st, 2024
Food and Beverage Industry Projects in May 2024

Snack food manufacturer Shearer's Foods is planning to invest $106 million for the renovation and equipment upgrades on a processing facility in Moraine.

FreightWaves
Feb 8th, 2024
329 Layoffs Hit Freight-Related Firms In Texas

Shearer’s FoodsShearer’s Foods is permanently closing a production facility in Lubbock, Texas, and laying off all 176 workers, according to a filing with the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC).The Massillon, Ohio-based company is a contract manufacturer and private label supplier of salty snacks, cookies and crackers.“After an extensive period of consideration, the difficult decision has been made to shutter production at our facility in Lubbock, effective March 31,” the company said in an email to FreightWaves. “This decision came after closely analyzing our supply chain and determining how to best manufacture our products to service our customers. The decision was made largely due to a decrease in demand from the largest customer of the facility.” Shearer’s opened the 180,000-square-foot facility in Lubbock in 2007. The company and its subsidiaries currently operate 16 manufacturing facilities and a distribution center in North America. Company officials did not say if they plan to close other facilities.In December, Shearer’s Foods was acquired by New York-based private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier Rice. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.HollingsworthTransportation and logistics provider Hollingsworth is shutting down a distribution center in Fort Worth and laying off 153 workers. Company officials said the facility’s closure was related to losing a contract with security and aerospace firm Lockheed Martin

Grocery Insight Magazine
Dec 13th, 2023
CD&R to Acquire Shearer's Foods from Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board

In this time, Shearer's has also invested in its plant network to strengthen its relationships with strategic blue-chip customers, while also diversifying its geographic and product mix.

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