Food Quality Technician - 1st Shift (5:30am - 5:30pm)

Thrive Foods • Oak Creek, WI

23h • Onsite

About The Position

Get in on the ground floor of our new freeze-dry manufacturing facility! Grow your career into 2025 as a key member of our pet food division as Thrive Freeze Dry expands into one of the largest freeze-dry manufacturers in the world. Conveniently located in Oak Creek, WI, we are hiring immediately for a full-time Quality Technician position in our Pet Food Division. The Quality Assurance Technician plays a vital role in ensuring the safety, quality, and compliance of food products and services within the operation. This position involves recording, monitoring and ensuring the implementation and maintenance of quality assurance standards, procedures, and controls to meet both internal and external requirements. The job entails a blend of technical knowledge, leadership skills, and an understanding of food safety regulations. The ideal candidate is one who is committed to food safety and quality, looks for improvement and is ready to roll up their sleeves with us.

Requirements

• Two years’ experience in field, laboratory, or production facility quality control.
• Experience in food manufacturing or food service highly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate professionally and effectively to internal and external customers.
• Good written and verbal communication skills.
• Good organizational skills.
• Maintain good attendance.
• Place high priority on food safety, quality, and sanitation by understanding and executing Thrive Food’s food safety and sanitation policies and procedures.
• Hold self and others accountable to Thrive Foods food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.
• In the absence of the QA Manager serves as back-up to ensure all food safety, quality objectives and SQF system requirements are met.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the inspection and sampling of all incoming raw products, ingredients, and packaging materials, and ensures that the materials are in conformance with established specifications and standards.
• Responsible for inspection and evaluation of product returns. Product returns may be a product that has been rejected due to a customer complaint, incorrect product shipped to a customer, etc.
• Sampling of incoming raw products, ingredients and packaging materials based on the predetermined sampling plans.
• Evaluation of collected samples based on Thrive Foods’ established specifications and requirements.
• Issuing incoming materials inspection reports, as well as non-conformance reports for materials that do not conform to specifications; ensuring all incoming material inspection reports are filed properly.
• Communication of non-conformances to upper management.
• Control and maintenance of incoming QA Sample storage and library of samples to ensure quick retrieval.
• Review supplier certificates of analysis (COAs) against the Thrive Foods specifications to ensure conformance.
• Inspection and evaluation of product returns.
• Serving as the backup for the QA Auditors.
• Other duties as assigned.
• Place high priority on food safety, quality, and sanitation by understanding and executing company food safety and sanitation policies and procedures.
• Hold self and others accountable to Thrive Foods food safety & sanitation guidelines and policies by communicating any food safety incident, observation, or opportunity to your leadership team or teammates.
• In the absence of QA Management serves as back up to ensure all food safety, quality objectives and SQF system requirements are met.
• Adheres to and ensures Product Safety and Quality standards are followed.
• Adheres to and ensures GMP’s regarding food contact packaging as it pertains to the employee.
• Adheres to and ensures Thrive’s food safety, product defense standards and quality objectives complies with all SQF system requirements.

Benefits

• Medical (UMR/United Healthcare Network)
• Dental (Sunlife)
• Vision (VSP)
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Supplementary Insurance: Optional Critical Illness and Critical Accident Insurances
• Company paid life, short-term and long-term disability insurances
• 401k w/ employer match, up to 4% annual salary
• Weekly Pay
• Paid time off
• Holidays
• Safety shoe program
• Tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed