Quality Assurance Specialist
Shamrock Foods Company

The Quality Assurance Specialist assists in tasks and duties related to quality assurance processes.

Essential Duties:

• Assure safe, high-quality products and quality processes by continuous improvement of the FSQA department
• Support the development and implementation of the FSQA strategy, goals, and objectives
• Analyze and report food safety data and trends to monitor and drive continuous food safety performance improvement
• Support the development and implementation of supplier quality programs; oversee evaluations and audits, conduct on-site supplier visits, on-boarding, and other functions related to supplier or ingredient quality
• Ensure product quality consistency and help develop a QC program
• Provide QA support for all product issues
• Work with Plant Quality teams in developing audits and corrective action plans
• Responsible for monitoring, inspecting, and proposing measures to correct or improve a company's final products and processes to meet established quality standards.
• Prepare and implement quality assurance policies and procedures
• Ensure that standards and safety regulations at the company are observed
• Address and discuss issues and proposed solutions with superiors and document activities
• Recommend improvements and creates training materials and operating manuals.
• Identifying gaps, e.g., via analyzing and managing the data from floor paperwork.
• Technical Support per regulatory (USDA, FSMA, and Food Code) requirements from manufacturing processes to final customer.
• Supports the 4 plants to be audit ready (daily) via updating programs, SOPs, and paperwork verification.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Biology, Nutrition, Chemistry, or related Science
• 2-5 years' experience in food regulation, Meat and Seafood a plus
• Must be able to travel 25% of the time - between plants
• Must be able to frequently reach up to 52 inches

Shamrock anticipates the closing of this position on or before December 31, 2024.

Compensation is dependent on a variety of factors, the range for this position is 65-75K.

Corporate Summary:

At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first - our associates, our customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in Arizona in 1922.

Our Mission:

At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family's motto to "treat associates like family and customers like friends."

Why work for us?

Benefits are a major part of your overall compensation, and we believe offering them at an affordable cost is not only the right thing to do, but it helps keep you and your family healthy. That's why Shamrock Foods pays for the majority of your health insurance, allowing you to take home more of your paycheck. And it doesn't stop there - our associates also enjoy additional benefits such as 401(k) Savings Plan, Profit Sharing, Paid Time Off, as well as our incredible growth opportunities, continued education and wellness programs.

Shamrock Foods Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis protected by applicable law.

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