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American Foods Group · 2 months ago

Quality Assurance (QA) Technician

Wright City, MO

Full-time

Onsite

New Grad, Entry Level

American Foods Group is preparing to open America's Heartland Packing in early 2025, a large-scale facility focused on meat processing. The QA Technician will be responsible for ensuring product safety, quality, and compliance through monitoring, auditing, and documenting processes on the production floor.

Food and BeverageFood DeliveryFood Processing

No H1B

Responsibilities

Job requires rotation of tasks (animal welfare, sampling, quality inspections, chemical concentration checks, sanitary dressing audits, temperatures, box tare weights, sampling, and grade changes)

Monitor the implementation and compliance of all food safety and quality procedures on the floor, report deficiencies, take corrective action, and follow up

Review and accurately complete required paperwork (GMP checks, SSOP corrective action log, and SOP corrective action log) and be held accountable for accuracy

Conduct pre-op/condensation/swabs

Perform sanitary dressing and zero tolerance inspections in accordance with the written program

Aid production in ensuring proper product is retained for USDA dispositions

Perform finished product inspections to ensure conformance to specifications and collect samples to be sent to lab for analysis

Conduct animal welfare audits and immediately act on any deviations from robust humane handling program

Use production specification reports to gather, measure, analyze, and record inspection data, such as weights, temperatures, grades, and quantities inspected or graded

Interact with USDA as needed

Interpret test results, compare them to established specifications and control limits, investigate, and take corrective action, make recommendations on preventative measures, and document findings

Qualification

Food safety knowledgeGMP knowledgeHACCP knowledgeUSDA production experienceSpanish communicationAnalytical skillsProblem-solving skillsTime managementConflict resolutionAttention to detailTeamworkCommunication skills

Required

Must be 18 years of age or older

Must be able to work in the United States without sponsorship

Must be able to work in a variety of work temperatures warm, hot, humid, cold, wet or with slippery surfaces at varied heights in and around moving equipment and parts with the use of personal protective equipment (PPE)

High school diploma or GED

Must be able to effectively communicate in English (speak, read, and write)

Preferred

Ability to effectively communicate in Spanish (speak, read, and write)

Strong project and time management, and conflict resolution skills

Prior production experience in a USDA inspected beef, pork, or poultry facility

Work history in the last 12 months

Benefits

Competitive total compensation package for you and your family.

Excellent benefit plan. Benefits include: Health, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Flex Spending Accounts, Voluntary Benefits, PTO, 401k, Long & Short Term Disability, Discount Meat Purchase Program, and more!