Quality Control 1

Greater Omaha Packing Co • Omaha, NE

2d • Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Control 1 employee helps ensure facility products and processes comply with Food Safety Quality Assurance policies, USDA regulations, and internal and customer specifications. The role includes conducting product and equipment inspections, reviewing product grading, packaging, and weights, monitoring team practices and processing areas, documenting findings, and collecting and implementing numerical data. The employee communicates with facility team members, management, and USDA, and uses company software as needed.

The position requires working independently and cooperatively, following instructions and safety procedures, and adapting to processing schedule changes, including scheduled weekend work. Work takes place throughout a processing facility in damp conditions and a wide range of temperatures, with exposure to moving mechanical parts and typically loud noise. The position has physical requirements including standing on concrete for up to four continuous hours and at least eight hours per shift, navigating facility areas, and lifting up to 50 pounds occasionally.

Requirements

• Dependable and prompt, with strong integrity and work ethic.
• Able to work independently and exhibit GOP values.
• Able to understand and follow instructions and learn methods and practices used in red meat processing.
• Able to communicate properly with all levels of management and USDA.
• Minimal computer skills, or willingness to learn company software.
• Able to stand on concrete surfaces for up to four continuous hours and for a minimum of eight hours per shift.
• Physically able to navigate all areas of the processing facility and follow safety procedures.
• Able to perform strenuous work in a damp environment with a wide range of temperatures.
• Able to move, open, and inspect plant-produced products.
• Able to move about the facility; sit; use hands to finger, handle, feel, or hold objects; reach; climb or balance; and speak, hear, taste, and smell.
• Regularly able to lift or move up to 10 pounds, frequently up to 25 pounds, and occasionally up to 50 pounds.
• Required vision abilities include close vision, color vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Able to speak on the phone and make field visits to industrial areas when necessary.

Responsibilities

• Comply with Food Safety Quality Assurance policies and USDA regulations, and model and coach these expectations for facility team members.
• Inspect products to verify compliance with internal and customer specifications, and take appropriate action when non-compliance is observed.
• Conduct product reviews for compliance with grading, packaging, and weight procedures.
• Monitor team members' work practices, inform them of deficiencies or nonconformance, and report issues to their supervisor.
• Monitor product processing areas and practices to mitigate potential foreign material contamination.
• Inspect equipment for cleanliness and proper working condition before startup or during processing, depending on the shift, and record findings neatly and legibly.
• Collect, track, and implement numerical data.
• Communicate with management at all levels and with USDA.
• Use basic computer skills or learn company software to complete job assignments.
• Move, open, and inspect plant-produced products.
• Follow safety procedures and maintain a cooperative, efficient working relationship with coworkers and leadership.
• Work varying days, including scheduled weekends, when processing schedules change.

Benefits

• Vision, medical, and dental coverage beginning the first day of the month after 30 days of employment.
• Paid sick time, vacation, and company-observed holidays.
• 401(k) with company match.
• Competitive base pay.
• Employee meat purchase discounts.
• Education reimbursement for the employee and dependents.
• Child care assistance.

What This Job Offers

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