3rd Shift Quality Technician

Job Title: Process Controller/Quality Technician

Job Description

The Process Controller is a hands-on quality position working directly on the food manufacturing floor to ensure products are being produced according to established formulas, weight specifications, food safety requirements, and quality standards. This role involves conducting scheduled quality checks before products are packaged, ensuring adherence to specifications through inspection, measurement, documentation, basic testing, and communication with production employees.

Responsibilities

• Work directly on the production floor alongside the manufacturing lines.
• Review the product being produced and the applicable formula/specifications.
• Verify that the correct ingredients and ingredient part numbers have been staged for the production run.
• Confirm ingredients on the line match the approved product formula before packaging.
• Perform routine process and quality checks throughout the shift.
• Check product weights against established target, minimum, and maximum ranges.
• Use production-quality equipment including scales, thermometers, calipers, Quantum meters, and Bostwick meters as required by the product/process.
• Enter quality measurements and inspection results into a tablet and applicable SPC documentation.
• Complete SPC weight sheets and graph weight data to determine whether production is staying within specification.
• Perform mass-balance checks at least twice per shift.
• Inspect product at multiple stages of production before packaging.
• Document anything that falls outside the established standard and immediately communicate food-safety or quality concerns.
• Work with Production when an ingredient, weight, measurement, or product condition does not meet specification.
• Maintain clean measuring equipment, scales, and work areas.
• Help train new employees on applicable process-control procedures and standards.
• Follow GMP, food-safety, and plant-safety requirements throughout the shift.

Essential Skills

• Quality Control: Experience performing quality, inspection or process checks in a manufacturing environment.
• Inspection: Ability to verify ingredients, weights, measurements and finished product against established specifications.
• GMP/Food Safety: Understanding of GMP, food safety, sanitation or regulated manufacturing practices.
• Data Collection: Ability to accurately record measurements, test results and deviations using tablets, worksheets and basic computer systems.
• Attention to Detail: Able to identify out-of-spec conditions, communicate concerns and work independently in a fast-paced production environment.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Experience with statistical process control, HACCP, SQF.
• Familiarity with quality assurance, food production, weight control.
• Ability to use quality measurement tools such as Bostwick meter, calipers, and scale calibration.

Work Environment

This is a hands-on position working primarily within an active food manufacturing environment. The role involves regular interaction with production equipment and food manufacturing lines, conducting inspections, taking measurements, and entering data. The position requires adherence to plant GMP, food-safety, and safety requirements. The work includes a combination of walking the production floor and using tablets and quality measurement equipment throughout the shift. The job requires working on a third shift from 10 pm to 6:30 am, with overtime dependent on production needs.

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Manteno, IL.

The pay range for this position is $18.50 - $21.61/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Manteno, IL.

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 28, 2026.

This is a fully onsite position in Manteno,IL.

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