630- Quality Control Technician

Peterson Farms, Inc.; Stockton, Northern (CA, KY); Hybrid; USD 24,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Peterson Farms, Inc. in Stockton, CA is seeking a Quality Control Technician to perform inspections, tests, and sampling to ensure products meet defined quality and safety standards.

You will work with production teams, document results, monitor critical control points, and support HACCP, GMP, and GFSI programs. Bi-lingual Spanish preferred; High School Diploma or equivalent required.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or equivalent required.
• Quality Control experience in QC Inspection preferred.
• Knowledge of basic food safety, GMP, GFSI and HACCP.
• Bi-lingual Spanish preferred.

Responsibilities

• Performs inspections and tests to ensure product quality and safety.
• Documents results in paper and into iFoods with accuracy.
• Monitors critical control points to ensure food safety requirements are met.
• Follows company safety policies and practices; works in cold room environments.
• Reports findings to QC supervisor and proposes corrective actions when needed.
• Maintains organized records for regulatory compliance.

Skills

Quality control

Inspection

Spanish language

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Job description

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630- Quality Control Technician

Full Time Manual Labor Stockton, CA, US

9 days ago Requisition ID: 1289

Salary Range: $17.50 To $17.90 Hourly

About the Role:

The Quality Control Technician plays a critical role in ensuring that products meet established standards of quality, safety, and reliability before reaching customers. This position involves conducting detailed inspections, performing tests, and analyzing data to identify defects or deviations from specifications. The technician collaborates closely with production teams to implement corrective actions and continuous improvement initiatives. By maintaining accurate records and documentation, the role supports compliance with regulatory requirements and internal quality policies. Ultimately, the Quality Control Technician helps uphold the company’s reputation for excellence by ensuring that only high-quality products are delivered to the market.

Position Summary: Perform inspections, checks, tests, and sampling procedures of production products, performs HACCP checks, defects, product sensory evaluations; (visual, taste, defects) Perform daily product production History Records of finished goods.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs pre-start sanitation verification checks to ensure cleanliness of equipment, taking pictures and reporting all findings.
• Able to work with sanitation team to verify that the cleanliness is adequate to produce safe and quality foods.
• Perform ATP swabs on clean equipment. Being able to use the Charm unit, a sanitation verification tool.
• Accurately and in a timely manner document in paper and into iFoods the results of the inspections and testing.
• Monitor critical control points to ensure proper food safety requirements are meet
• Evaluate problems and make initial recommendations for possible corrective action and report to QC supervisor.
• Must be able to work within cold room environments
• Follow company safety policies and practices
• Monitor and adjust sanitizer levels in wash water

Qualifications: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Education/Experience: High School Diploma or equivalent, Quality Control experience in Quality Control Inspection preferred, Knowledge of basic food safety, Previous GMP, GFSI, and HACCP knowledge.

Language Ability:

Ability to speak effectively with employees of organization. Bi-lingual Spanish preferred

Mathematical Ability:

Basic Math Skills needed

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to solve practical and complex problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables, knowledge of defects of fruit and ability to communicate to other departments.

Physical Demands

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand; walk and use hands to finger, handle, or feel. The employee is frequently required to reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 60 pounds and over shoulders. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and depth perception.