Quality Control Technician

What You'll Do

Ensure compliance with food safety guidelines and practices within the facility by inspecting products, personnel, and production lines for adherence to requirements. Support regulatory inspections, calibrate equipment as needed, and maintain accurate records of inspections and tests.

Essential Functions

• Support a food safe working environment by complying with standard operating procedures, rules, and regulations.
• Inspect products, personnel, and production lines for adherence to food safety requirements, including taking temperatures, weights, and performing tests such as swabbing for microbes.
• Accurately record results of inspections and tests in appropriate logs and inform appropriate individuals of any deviations from expected norms.
• Inspect labels, boxing, and other processed items or documents to ensure adherence to customer and government specifications.
• Support USDA inspections as directed or as needed.
• Calibrate equipment as needed and according to procedures.
• Perform other duties as required or requested.
• Other essential duties may be applicable and assigned as necessary.

What Experience and Education You Need

• High School diploma or General Education Degree (GED) required.
• At least 1 year of experience in food industry quality control preferred.
• Ability to inspect products, personnel, and production lines for adherence to Food Safety requirements, including taking temperatures, weights, performing microbial tests, and accurately recording results.
• Ability to calibrate equipment according to procedures and support USDA inspections as directed.
• Proficiency in using reporting tools such as Word and Excel to create communication documents and basic statistical reports.

What Could Set You Apart

• Effective verbal and written communication sufficient to read and interpret government and company documents and partner with customers and co-workers.
• Mathematical skills sufficient to add, subtract, multiply, and divide whole numbers, fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to identify and solve problems in a fast-paced environment with changing deadlines while maintaining accuracy.
• Ability to work independently and proactively identify tasks without direct supervision preferred.
• Knowledge of food borne pathogens and associated mitigation techniques.
• Interpersonal and customer service skills for collaboration with colleagues and customers.

Physical Requirements

• Depending on specific role, requires frequent standing, walking, sitting, getting up and down from chairs, reaching, and/or bending.

• Requires manual dexterity with normal hand and finger movements for typical office work, including the operation of computers, telephones, and similar equipment.

• Requires ability to comprehend and communicate with others, verbally and/or in writing.

• Depending on specific role, may require frequent or occasional exposure to temperatures at or below freezing.

• Depending on specific role, may require ability to mount and dismount material handling equipment and ability to perform fine articulation movements with fingers/hands and/or feet to operate equipment.

• Depending on specific role, may require ability to tolerate heights up to 30 ft. (9 meters) and ability to access elevated products from inside safety cage.

• Requires ability to wear personal protective equipment required for assigned tasks, including working in cold temperatures.

• May require travel by automobile and airplane for business.

• Depending on specific role, ability to lift, carry, position and/or move objects up to 60 lbs. (27 kg) frequently or occasionally.