1st Shift Quality Assurance Technician/Técnico de Control de Calidad 1-Turno

Job Description

Job Description

Do you have experience in a high-volume food manufacturing environment, an eye for detail, and a commitment to safety and cleanliness? If so, we want to talk to you!

Villari Foods is currently seeking Quality Control Technicians for our Warsaw, NC warehouse location. The right candidate will have a strong work ethic, leadership skills, and impeccable organizational skills. Our Quality Control team is responsible for ensuring our company meets or exceeds quality control programs designed to result in continuous production of products consistent with established standards. This includes training new employees on these procedures, as well.

Job duties:

• Ensure HACCP CCPs are verified and documented based on regulatory guidelines.
  • Slaughter CCPs are met for milk, ingesta and fecal and offal CCPs are met
  • Ensure RTE cook and chilling CCPs are met
  • Ensure heat treated not fully cooked (HTNFC) chilling CCPs are met
  • Ensure raw intact and raw non-intact CCPs are met
• Conduct quality audits on product temperatures, label checks, metal detection, packaging checks, weight control, verify brine formulation and pump checks, blending of ingredients and restricted ingredients.
• Adhere to product specifications during harvesting and on finished packaged products.
• Ensure segregation is followed throughout each step of special claims handling.
• Ensure all GMPs are followed.
• Comply with all SSOP guidelines and quality manual policies.
• Perform monthly internal audits at the direction of the SQF Practitioner.
• Communicate quality and facility issues to QC Supervisor.
• Maintain a safe work environment following company procedures and safety regulations
• Perform other tasks as directed

To qualify for this job you must have:

• GED or High school diploma
• 1-year experience in related field (high-volume food manufacturing preferred)
• Excellent plant regulatory and HACCP skills
• Excellent communication skills - both written and oral
• Ability to read and write in English
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite, AS400, and Lotus Notes
• Strong attention to detail
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure
• Slaughter and animal humane experience preferred.

What Villari Food Group offers you:

• Competitive compensation
• Opportunity to earn overtime hours
• Medical, dental, and vision Insurance
• Company-paid life insurance
• 401K
• Paid vacation days and holidays
• Employee discounts on Villari meat products
• Opportunities for employee recognition
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!
• Employment with a great team and a highly experienced supervisor

How Villari Foods is different:

• As a family-owned and operated business, we’re more connected with our team members and truly consider each employee a member of the Villari family.
• We’re a people-focused culture. Team members are not only known but also cared for by peers, leaders, and owners. You aren’t just a number.
• The experience each employee has working at Villari is important to us. That’s why we strive for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment:
The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• The work environment will include cold temperatures between 50℉ to 10℉ (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals. Villari Foods will provide cold-weather gear to you.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.

• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds
• Able to drive a registered motor vehicle to satisfy daily requirements
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
• Able to speak and hear for safety and productivity
• Use scanners, tablets, radios, phones, and other warehouse machinery
• Frequently required to stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl

More about Villari Foods:
Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history. As a teenager, Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life. Today, at Villari Foods, we combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen. With the fourth Villari generation now entering the business, our family remains dedicated to ensuring an exceptional experience for all who enjoy our products.

We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, food service, and export markets. We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids. And we’re well known for our smoked products.

As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options. We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement:

Villari Food Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.