Quality Control Technician

Quality Assurance Specialist Maintains all aspects of Quality Assurance to ensure proper, safe and exceptional operation of the department. Essential duties include: auditing products for quality and safety prior to sending out to customers, auditing incoming raw materials for supplier specifications, quality, and food security, reviewing incoming ingredients for allergen checks and quality standards, and ensuring compliance with all regulations. The role also involves maintaining the plant in proper sanitary condition at all times, including allergen control, pest control, and following guidelines. Fills out necessary paperwork for product audits and HACCP documents, reviews HACCP documents prior to handing paperwork to QA Supervisor/Manager, and works with operational teams daily with paperwork, quality checks, and HACCP procedures. Ensures adherence to all standard work processes, including the Production Sanitation processes, aides in plant training requirements and training frequencies, and conducts plant training sessions as needed. Maintains understanding of processes and functional interdependencies, recognizes and escalates, as needed, those issues identified as risks to, or opportunities to improve, plant performance. Must be able to work within timelines and in pressure situations. Regular and reliable attendance. Other duties may be assigned. Qualifications: High School Diploma or GED preferred, Meat Protein Experience, HACCP certified preferred. 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, wellness programs. Equal Opportunity Employer 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.