Quality Assurance Technician 2nd Shift

Quality Assurance Technician
Shifts Available: 2nd

Location: Hazelwood, Missouri

Pay: Starting at $18 per hour + --- $500 sign-on bonus --- 5% bonus for meeting quarterly goals --- Overtime and Other Incentives

2nd shift earns a shift premium - $1.25 per hour extra*

As a Quality Assurance Technician, you are an essential team member responsible for monitoring all quality assurance/food safety activities and making recommendations and carries out corrections for improving quality departmental functions. You test and inspect products at various stages of the production process and compiles and evaluates statistical data to determine and maintain quality and reliability of products by performing the following duties. You enhance the department and the organization' reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Perform related duties and provides support to the Quality Assurance Management.
• Achieves quality assurance operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; preparing and completing action plans; implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identifying and resolving problems; completing audits; determining system improvements; implementing change.
• Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Performs tests at specified stages in the production process, and tests products for a variety of qualities such as temperature, defects, code dates, etc., records results, reviews records, and reports for accuracy and completion.
• Evaluates data and writes reports to validate or indicate deviations from existing standards.
• Recommends modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within limits of equipment capability.
• Completes special projects assigned, work with the project team; help to resolve problems by examining and evaluating data; selecting corrective steps.
• Quality analysis of incoming dry goods for production. Verification of specifications before startup and throughout production processes. Problem solving on quality issues with production and other teams. Documentation of key metrics for data analysis. Maintenance of calibration and logs of all laboratory instruments. Preparation of laboratory equipment and solutions. Direct communication with operators and production personnel. General analysis and sampling of production samples. Collection of retention samples on shiftily basis.

QUALIFICATIONS:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The following list that follows is representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required:

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

Six months to one-year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Your Career Journey At Nature's Bakery

As a young company, we have had the opportunity to shape, reinforce and live our five core company values daily:

• Growth Minded. You are incessantly curious, you believe career development is journey built on experiences, feedback and personal growth
• Solutions-Focused. You excel at both thinking and doing and have a track record of turning organizational objectives into actionable solutions
• You thrive in environments where team members treat each other with respect and support one another, in fact you believe the best solutions emerge when you can engage in fact-based, low-ego discussions
• Stronger Together. Working as a team towards a common goal, we thrive on collaboration because we believe each of us has a unique perspective to offer
• "Doing the right thing" guides you, it is the compass that guides every decision and action you take

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The duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and meet strategic objectives.

Nature's Bakery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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