Quality Control Lead - 1st Shift - Days Off: Wednesday & Thursday

Home Chef • San Bernardino, CA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Home Chef is seeking a Quality Control Lead for their 1st shift operations. This role involves fulfilling all responsibilities of a QC Tech, providing on-the-floor coaching, and performing additional duties such as packing, managing donations, and equipment maintenance. The QC Lead may also be responsible for training QC Techs. This position follows a 1st shift schedule, working from 6:30 AM to 3:30 PM, with Wednesdays and Thursdays off. Home Chef is a leading meal solutions company with both retail and online presence, committed to inspiring and enabling people to cook simple, delicious meals. They also offer a new brand, Tempo, featuring ready-to-heat meals.

Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalent required
• 2+ years of experience working in food quality, preferred
• Arrives to work at scheduled time and follows time off request procedure
• Communicates with co-workers in a professional manner
• Treats co-workers with respect at all times

Nice To Haves

• Fluency in Spanish and English is preferred

Responsibilities

• Perform Start-of-Shift and Product Changeover Activities, including verifying equipment setup, correct ingredient portioning or meal bagging, and scale verification.
• Support Core QC Activities, demonstrating mastery of responsibilities such as labeling, portioning, meal bagging, shipping line, and final box verifications.
• Demonstrate mastery over Home Chef’s Receiving Process and Outbound Transfer Process, escalating quality issues to FSQA leadership.
• Accurately document verification activities in the appropriate application.
• Conduct Detailed Ingredient Inspection, including off-the-line checks on ingredient quality.
• Perform Temperature Checks for every cooler and freezer once per shift and document results, escalating issues.
• Train, Retrain, and Coach QC Techs on job performance and Home Chef FSQA Tools & Applications.
• Serve as a point of contact for all Home Chef FSQA Tools & Applications.
• Promptly notify FSQA Supervisor and/or FSQA leadership when food safety and/or quality issues arise.
• Follow and help enforce facility GMPs.
• Support the company's efforts to maintain its food safety system (SQF) and quality programs.
• Fulfill all responsibilities of a QC Tech.
• Provide on the floor coaching for new and less experienced associates.
• Perform other duties such as packing, managing donations, and setting up, breaking down, and maintaining portioning equipment.
• Assume additional responsibilities delivering training to QC Techs.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability insurance available
• Paid holidays, sick time and vacation time
• 401k program
• Flexible spending accounts for qualified medical, dependent care, parking, or transit expenses

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED