Quality Assurance Associate

JOB SUMMARY

Responsible for inspecting the product to identify quality issues and assisting with product repacking as needed.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provide technical, customer relations, and personnel management for major programs and projects.

• Conduct daily walk-through of assigned coolers to check the quality of the product and identify any quality issues.

• Check dates of product for proper product rotation by date.

• Remove any distressed product, determine what product needs reworking and what product should be discarded.

• Rework all distressed/damaged products.

• Communicate quality issues to buyers, management, and associates.

• Report all lost products or transfers.

• Assure that all inventory is properly blocked and labeled.

• Assist in inventory counts.

• Instructs handlers in the proper method of loading trucks.

• All product loaded must be transported without damage

QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Prefer High School or GED

Experience
A minimum of two (2) years related experience (knowledge of produce industry preferred).

Skills

• Ability to operate warehouse power equipment.

• Ability to interact with others in a professional manner.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.

• General understanding of the shipping procedures of a high-volume warehouse operation.

• Solid understanding of produce varieties handled in a wholesale operation.

Decision Making Authority
Most important decisions made fully independently:
Identifying quality issues,

Most important decisions made with review and approval of other individuals or supervisors (include the reviews/approvals required):
All work regularly reviewed by the supervisor and manager.

• Some stooping and bending required.

• Ability to manually inspect produce efficiently for periods of up to or exceeding eight (8) hours.

• They must be able to move around the work area freely.

• Frequent lifting of the product up to 50 lbs. during the shift, infrequent lifting to 80 lbs.

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