Intermediate Quality Assurance Technician

Intermediate Quality Assurance Technician

This position partners cross-functionally with Operations, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Management to ensure food/feed safety, quality, regulatory, and customer requirements are consistently applied throughout the manufacturing process.

The Quality Assurance Technician serves as a key resource on the production floor, supporting quality systems in real-time to drive First Pass Quality, product compliance, material yield, and operational efficiency.

This is a highly visible plant-support role requiring significant time on the manufacturing floor.

Candidates must be comfortable working in a fast-paced production environment and interacting with employees at all levels of the organization.

Hours: Monday - Friday, 7:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Pay: $24.00 per hour

This role may require weekend work, overtime, and schedule flexibility based on plant and business needs.

Core Job Duties:


* Support quality assurance and food/feed safety programs in real-time on the production floor.


* Spend approximately 60-70% of the workday in production and ingredient handling areas.


* Collect/review ingredient, in-process, finished product, and retained samples for testing and evaluation.


* Assist with ingredient and finished feed evaluations to determine compliance with quality standards and specifications prior to use in production or release for shipment.


* Perform routine laboratory testing and maintain quality records.


* Verify product specifications, formulations, labels, lot codes, sequencing, and manufacturing requirements.


* Assist in investigating quality concerns, customer complaints, process deviations, and non-conforming products.


* Monitor and maintain tag inventory to ensure adequate supply for production.


* Verify correct tags and labels are available and utilized for production runs in accordance with product specifications and regulatory requirement.


* Provide quality guidance and support to production employees and supervisors.


* Support regulatory, customer, and internal audit activities.


* Monitor compliance with food/feed safety programs, prerequisite programs, and quality management systems.


* Assist with inventory verification, product holds, releases, and quality-related documentation.


* Support training initiatives related to quality and food/feed safety.


* Other duties as assigned by management.

Experience/Education Required:



* High School Diploma or GED.


* Minimum one (1) year experience in manufacturing, quality assurance, laboratory, food, feed, or related industry.

Competencies/Skills Required:



* Strong attention to detail and organizational skills.


* Effective verbal and written communication skills.


* Ability to work independently and make sound decisions.


* Demonstrated teamwork, collaboration, and willingness to support fellow Quality Assurance team members while maintaining a positive an...