QA Lab Tech

QA Lab Tech

QA Lab 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 (some flexibility)

Pay: $24.50 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 50-60% 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.

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.

Help provide coverage when the Quality Manager is out of the office.

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 any 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 and professional work environment.

Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications SAP, and Repete and other business systems used to support quality, production, and inventory management activities.

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