Market Quality Assurance Engineer

NatureSweet • San Antonio, TX

131d • Onsite

About The Position

NatureSweet is seeking a Market Quality Assurance Engineer to support quality assurance and food safety operations in its distribution centers. The role develops, implements, reviews, and manages quality and safety practices in alignment with applicable government regulations and standards, including SQF, PACA, USDA, and FDA requirements. It evaluates product quality through sampling, inspection, and statistical analysis, and makes decisions about product acceptance, rejection, or rework while communicating decisions to relevant departments and personnel.

The engineer develops strategies to improve inspection processes and other quality assurance and safety operations, ensures procedures suit market quality assurance activities, manages data used to assess departmental performance, and monitors quality indicators, product rejections, and collections for rework at production plants. The position is based in Nogales, Arizona, and has a Monday-to-Friday schedule from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Requirements

• At least 4 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Food Safety.
• Bachelor’s degree in Agriculture, Food Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and/or Business and Administration; candidates may be graduated or in the process of graduating.
• English required.
• Technical knowledge of manufacturing, process management and improvement, information analysis, results reporting, analysis of results and operations, mathematical, technical and statistical skills, quality and safety standards, and technical product analysis.

Nice To Haves

• Professional or native/fluent Spanish.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, review, and manage quality assurance and food safety practices in accordance with applicable regulations and standards, including SQF, PACA, USDA, and FDA.
• Verify and analyze product quality processes through sampling, evaluation, and statistical analysis to ensure compliance with quality and safety requirements, bulletins, and specifications.
• Decide whether evaluated products at NatureSweet distribution centers should be accepted, rejected, or reworked, and communicate decisions to involved departments and personnel.
• Develop strategies to improve inspection processes and other quality assurance and safety operations in distribution centers.
• Ensure procedures are appropriate for market quality assurance operations.
• Process and manage data to measure and evaluate departmental performance.
• Monitor and analyze market quality assurance department indicators.
• Monitor product rejections and manage collections for rework at production plants.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time