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Food Safety & Quality Supervisor

McCain Foods
Burley, ID Full Time
POSTED ON 1/28/2026 CLOSED ON 6/16/2026

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Position Title: Food Safety & Quality Supervisor

Position Type: Regular - Full-Time

Position Location: Burley

Grade: Grade 04

Requisition ID: 33970

About McCain

At McCain, we’re feeding the world: from French fries to cakes, we contribute to the important role food plays in people's lives. That’s why we’re dedicated to ensuring our core values—Family, Authentic, Trusted, and Quality—shine through every day. As a privately owned family company with over 60 years of experience, a presence in more than 160 countries, and a global team of 22,000 people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. We believe that we can work together, along with our business and community partners, to bring sustainable growth and positive change today, tomorrow, and for generations to come. Join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain!

Why join the McCain family.

  • Your Life – we’re here to help you fulfil your potential, flourish, and thrive in work and life.
  • Your Success – work alongside passionate individuals who are committed to supporting your career ambitions, drive, and success.
  • Your Impact – we want you to make a meaningful, lasting impact for you, for your colleagues, and for the business.

McCain is a place where you can grow from the ground up, so join us and see how you can MAKE IT at McCain.

About The Team.

We are currently looking for a Food Safety Quality Supervisor located in Burley, ID.

About The Role.

In every role, McCainers are ambitious, curious, and interested in helping each other create good work experiences. We think about the customer and make doing business with McCain easy.

Leadership Principles.

Our principles, each with related practices, guide our actions across the organization. Together, they address how McCain interacts with our customers and employees, and how we work as individuals and collectively to find success. While each role adheres to the Leadership Principles, individual roles may focus more on a specific principle or principles.

We are customer obsessed. Customers are our starting point. By understanding their needs and leveraging data and consumer insights, we drive mutual success.

We think big and plan ahead. Through ambition, curiosity, and smart risks, we can accomplish goals, refine processes, and innovate to scale success.

We bring out the best in our people. We create safe spaces for our people so that trust and empowerment come naturally. Inclusion is about listening first, showing humility, and working together.

We act like owners. Together, we clear obstacles and do the work that makes us all successful and proud to be part of McCain.

Accountabilities.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following:

Quality/Operations Management

  • Coordinates with production the monitoring of processes and procedures to ensure effectiveness and continuous improvement
  • Uses Root Cause Analysis for the investigation of consumer and customer complaints and quality related losses. Develops corrective actions and monitors for effectiveness. Troubleshoots using product tests and product specification measurements.
  • Ensures an active internal quality audit program in compliance with BRC, AIB and KEFSQ.
  • Ensure update of HACCP and SOPs as needed and ensures training of associates at all levels on quality programs.
  • Manages relationships with internal and external customers, suppliers, colleagues, and support services to ensure achievement of targets.
  • Attend MDI DDS to inform and coach to high level performance of key KPI’s
  • Oversee FM investigations to ensure cross functional approach and true root cause
  • Oversee on time positive release of finished goods to include the oversight of rework, dilution, downgrades, and donations
  • Manages FSQ technicians by scheduling and assigning work, providing training, and ensuring all personnel related task are completed.
  • Ensure continuous learning and development for FSQ technicians.
  • Driving continuous improvement for Quality related metrics and KPIs in the factory and understanding the link to the regional level equivalents.
  • Summarizes data, prepares and interprets reports, including customer reports, for use by management.
  • Retain finished good samples and set up sensory panel daily.

Sensory Management

  • Responsibility for managing plant sensory programs and ensuring leadership of daily quality panels.
  • Responsible for the screening and selecting sensory panelists and maintaining an adequate number of panelists continuously.
  • Oversee and conducts frequent new and refresher trainings to include the validation and calibration of panelist.
  • Implement and maintain an incentives program to ensure panelist motivation and attendance
  • Responsible for the selection and maintaining of all gold standards and references used for product evaluation and panel maintenance.
  • Proactively drive for action and improvement by communicating panel findings in a timely fashion
  • Actively partner with the Regional Sensory Quality Lead and plant quality teams to continuously improve plant sensory programs and ensure the quality and integrity of McCain products.
  • Trend internal sensory results regularly as well as cross reference to external consumer and customer related complaints.

Qualifications.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

  • Education: Bachelor’s degree in microbiology, Chemistry, Food Science, or equivalent
  • Minimum of 3 years in Food Plant Sanitation
  • Strong technical skills in area of focus (microbiology and/or chemistry) with ability to interpret general technical and scientific results and perform analytical tests.
  • Sound mathematical and basic food science understanding.
  • Good knowledge of statistics and interpretation of experimental data
  • Basic understanding of the manufacturing environment and production operations.
  • Detail- oriented, take initiative, and ability to work with a sense of urgency in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to solve problems ranging from basic to complex.
  • Strong project management skills.
  • Strong understanding of food safety, HACCP, and basic food regulatory requirements.

The McCain Experience

We are McCain: this statement is about our power collectively and our importance individually—your impact is a significant part of the business. Our winning culture focuses on authenticity and trust so we can always bring out the best in our people. Here, you have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive while being yourself. Join our team to see why we’re better together.

The Benefits Of Working For McCain.

McCain offers full benefits including health, vision, and dental insurance. In addition, we offer other benefits including: 401k- Match at 6%

Adoption Assistance Infertility Assistance

Education Reimbursement Assistance 

Paid Maternity and Paternity Leave 



Compensation Package: $65,500.00 -$87,400.00 USD annually bonus eligibility

The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education/training, and other organizational needs.

Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and wellbeing at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & wellbeing programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Wellbeing programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned to country, provincial and state governing plans and can vary by work level, location and nature of the role. Additional benefit details available during the application process.

Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.

McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. We see value in ensuring we have a diverse, antiracist, inclusive, merit-based, and equitable workplace. As a global family-owned company we are proud to reflect the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that diversity drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger.

McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with the Global Privacy Policy

Job Family: Quality & Food Safety

Division: NA Operations

Department: Burley Quality Night

Location(s): US - United States of America : Idaho : Burley || US - United States of America : Idaho : Boise || US - United States of America : Idaho : Fruitland || US - United States of America : Idaho : Nampa

Company: McCain Foods USA, Inc.

Salary : $65,500 - $87,400

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