FSQA Supervisor

Pegasus Foods Inc

Rockwall, TX

Pay: $60,000-$75,000/yr

Shift: Full time

**We Create What You Crave.**

Pegasus Food Group is seeking an experienced **Senior Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Supervisor** to lead daily FSQA activities, develop our team, and strengthen food safety and quality systems at our frozen food manufacturing facility.

This is a hands-on leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys working on the production floor, solving problems, coaching employees, and partnering across departments to produce safe, high-quality food.

About Pegasus Foods

Pegasus Food Group is a growing food manufacturer in Rockwall, Texas, specializing in frozen appetizers, burritos, egg rolls, empanadas, sides, desserts, and other innovative frozen food products.

Our 135,000-square-foot facility supports forming, filling, frying, baking, breading, mixing, and packaging. We partner with national consumer brands, retailers, foodservice distributors, and quick-service restaurants to bring products to consumers across the country.

As an SQF-certified, USDA-regulated facility, food safety and quality are central to everything we do.

Position Overview

The Senior FSQA Supervisor provides daily leadership and technical guidance for food safety and quality activities throughout the facility. This position works closely with Operations, Sanitation, Maintenance, Research & Development, Supply Chain, and plant leadership.

The successful candidate will translate regulatory, customer, and company requirements into clear, practical expectations for the production floor while supporting compliance with applicable SQF, HACCP, FSMA, FDA, and USDA requirements.

Key Responsibilities

**Team Leadership and Development**

• Lead, coach, and develop FSQA Technicians, establishing clear expectations and accountability.
• Maintain a strong production-floor presence and provide timely guidance on food safety and quality concerns.
• Support onboarding, employee development, and food safety training.
• Build effective relationships across departments and promote a culture of prevention, communication, and continuous improvement.

**Food Safety and Quality Systems**

• Serve as the site’s SQF Practitioner and oversee implementation, maintenance, and improvement of the SQF system.
• Support development, validation, verification, and reassessment of HACCP and Food Safety Plans.
• Oversee prerequisite programs, including Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures (SSOPs), allergen controls, environmental monitoring, foreign material prevention, food defense, pest control, traceability, and chemical controls.
• Keep programs current with applicable regulatory, customer, and company requirements.
• Maintain complete, accurate, and readily accessible food safety and quality records.

**Regulatory Compliance and Audit Readiness**

• Support compliance with applicable USDA-FSIS, FDA, FSMA, SQF, customer, and other regulatory requirements.
• Serve as a primary FSQA contact during USDA and FDA interactions and support regulatory inspections.
• Lead or participate in internal, customer, regulatory, and third-party audits.
• Address audit findings and nonconformances through documented corrective actions.
• Communicate significant risks and recurring trends to the Director of FSQA and plant leadership.

**Product and Process Quality**

• Oversee pre-operational inspections, in-process checks, finished-product evaluations, and testing.
• Manage product holds, investigations, releases, rework, and disposition according to established procedures.
• Investigate complaints, process deviations, out-of-specification results, and other food safety or quality concerns.
• Review FSQA data to identify trends, reduce recurring issues, and improve product consistency.

**Testing and Sanitation Verification**

• Coordinate external laboratory services, sampling plans, testing schedules, and required calibrations.
• Oversee microbiological testing, finished-product testing, and shelf-life studies.
• Partner with Sanitation and Operations to verify sanitation effectiveness.
• Support investigations and corrective actions related to environmental monitoring and sanitation findings.
• Ensure testing results are evaluated, documented, and addressed appropriately.

**Problem Solving and Continuous Improvement**

• Lead root-cause investigations using structured methods such as 5 Whys and Fishbone analysis.
• Develop, implement, and verify corrective and preventive action (CAPA) plans.
• Monitor corrective actions to confirm effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
• Use audit findings, complaints, testing results, and process data to guide improvements.
• Collaborate across departments to implement practical, sustainable solutions.

Required Qualifications

• Five or more years of progressive food safety and quality assurance experience in food manufacturing.
• Supervisory or team leadership experience in FSQA, quality assurance, food safety, or a related manufacturing function.
• Working knowledge o