Quality Assurance Specialist Jobs

The Quality Assurance Specialist assists in tasks and duties related to quality assurance processes.

Essential Duties:

• Recommend improvements and creates training materials and operating manuals.
• Analyze and report food safety data and trends to monitor and drive continuous food safety performance improvement
• Work with Plant Quality teams in developing audits and corrective action plans
• Ensure that standards and safety regulations at the company are observed
• Supports the 4 plants to be audit ready (daily) via updating programs, SOPs, and paperwork verification.
• Support the development and implementation of the FSQA strategy, goals, and objectives
• Ensure product quality consistency and help develop a QC program
• Assure safe, high-quality products and quality processes by continuous improvement of the FSQA department
• Other duties as assigned
• Support the development and implementation of supplier quality programs; oversee evaluations and audits, conduct on-site supplier visits, on-boarding, and other functions related to supplier or ingredient quality
• Responsible for monitoring, inspecting, and proposing measures to correct or improve a company's final products and processes to meet established quality standards.
• Identifying gaps, e.g., via analyzing and managing the data from floor paperwork.
• Prepare and implement quality assurance policies and procedures
• Address and discuss issues and proposed solutions with superiors and document activities
• Provide QA support for all product issues
• Technical Support per regulatory (USDA, FSMA, and Food Code) requirements from manufacturing processes to final customer.

Qualifications:

• 2-5 years’ experience in food regulation, Meat and Seafood a plus
• Must be able to frequently reach up to 52 inches
• Must be able to travel 25% of the time – between plants
• Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Nutrition, Chemistry, or related Science

Pay for this position is weighted on several qualifications and ranges between $60-80K per year

Corporate Summary:

At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first – our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.

Our Mission:

At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family’s motto to “treat associates like family and customers like friends.”

Why work for us?

Benefits are a major part of your overall compensation, and we believe offering them at an affordable cost is not only the right thing to do, but it helps keep you and your family healthy. That’s why Shamrock Foods pays for the majority of your health insurance, allowing you to take home more of your paycheck. And it doesn’t stop there - our associates also enjoy additional benefits such as 401(k) Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Paid Time Off, as well as our incredible growth opportunities, continued education and wellness programs.

Shamrock Foods Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)