Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician

Grüns; Dallas (TX); On-site; USD 25,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Family benefits (75% coverage)

Job summary

Grüns is seeking a Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician for an onsite role in Roanoke, Texas. You will perform comprehensive quality control inspections, monitor equipment, and ensure compliance with food safety standards to maintain our gummy products.

You will govern quality control, equipment maintenance, and documentation, while collaborating cross-functionally with production teams to uphold GMP practices. The role requires ability to work 2pm–10pm and overtime as needed.

Qualifications

• Has previous experience as a QA Technician in food manufacturing industry.
• Brings basic computer skills including MS Office and Google Drive proficiency.
• Can read and understand SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and product specifications.
• Shows ability to work overtime and holidays as production requires.
• Demonstrates capability to stand for extended periods and multitask effectively.
• Works as a self-motivated individual requiring minimal supervision.

Responsibilities

• Quality Control & Inspection: Examine gummies for defects, verify specifications, conduct organoleptic evaluations, isolate non-conforming products.
• Equipment Monitoring & Maintenance: Monitor metal detection, oversee equipment condition, perform ATPs, maintain calibration records.
• Documentation & Compliance: Monitor and record data, perform GMP audits, conduct environmental tests, manage shelf-life samples.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Communicate with production, participate in safety investigations, inspect glass and brittle plastics, reinforce GMP.

Skills

MS Office

Google Drive

SOP reading

Job description

We're so happy you're here! Thank you for checking our job out and we hope to have the chance to meet you in our interview process!

About the role

• This role is onsite at our Roanoke, Texas location
• Hourly Rate: $22/hr + annual raise program
• PTO: This role offers paid vacation & sick days
• Benefits: Coverage for you as well as your family, company pays 75%
• This role will cover our 2nd shift Monday - Friday 2pm - 10pm

As a Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician at Grüns, you'll play a critical role in ensuring product quality and safety throughout our manufacturing process. You'll be responsible for comprehensive quality control inspections, equipment monitoring, and compliance with food safety standards to maintain our high-quality gummy products.

In this role, you will:

Quality Control & Inspection

• Examine gummies for defects including damage and foreign material contamination
• Verify product specifications at key production stages including date codes, lot numbers, weights, and seal integrity
• Conduct organoleptic evaluations and identify non-conforming products
• Isolate equipment, materials, and finished products that don't meet specifications

Equipment Monitoring & Maintenance

• Monitor and operate metal detection equipment to ensure food safety standards
• Oversee assigned equipment condition, calibration status, and proper usage
• Perform pre-operational inspections and acceptance test procedures (ATPs)
• Conduct equipment verifications and maintain calibration records

Documentation & Compliance

• Monitor, record, and initiate corrective actions as needed throughout production
• Conduct daily GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices) audits
• Perform environmental monitoring tests and maintain detailed records
• Collect shelf-life samples and manage documentation processes

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Maintain constant communication with production personnel about quality standards and data collection
• Participate in food safety incident investigations and resolution
• Conduct glass and brittle plastic inspections across facility
• Reinforce GMP standards throughout the organization

We're looking for someone who:

• Has previous experience as a QA Technician in food manufacturing industry
• Brings basic computer skills including MS Office and Google Drive proficiency
• Can read and understand SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) and product specifications
• Shows ability to work overtime and holidays as production requires
• Demonstrates capability to stand for extended periods and multitask effectively
• Works as a self-motivated individual requiring minimal supervision

Bonus points for:

• Bilingual in English/Spanish
• Has participated in internal audits
• Brings GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative) exposure

A bit about us...

At Grüns, we believe that foundational nutrition should be simple and convenient for everyone. We're dedicated to bringing comprehensive and real nutrition to you through our gummies, formulated from 60 nutrient-dense and whole-food ingredients. Simply enjoy a grab-and-go snack pack of gummies daily whenever fits best in your schedule and wherever life takes you.

Like you, we were disappointed. There’s an infinite number of “nutrition” companies, all focused on what’s best for them — not what’s best for you. Hundreds of products to sell you on, low-quality ingredients, and small nutrient doses. We’ve seen it all.

So we decided it was time to fix it. No more choking on and popping pills like a pharmacy. No more clean-up and disgust from gross powders. And no more cobbling together handfuls to dozens of supplements. Grüns is comprehensive nutrition, made convenient and delicious.

What we care about...

Be the Best: We hold ourselves, our teams, and our partners to an incredibly high standard - and we raise the bar constantly. "We've never done this before" isn't an excuse here. It's an invitation.

Own It: We act like our name is on the door. That means taking complete ownership of outcomes, collaborating deeply, working through roadblocks - not around them - and never waiting for someone else to solve the problem. Great owners are great partners.

Drive Impact, Urgently: We measure impact, not effort. We work smart and hard, move fast, and use every tool at our disposal - including AI - to focus our energy where it matters most.

Compensation & Perks:

For every role, we aim to have highly competitive compensation and opportunity for impact and career growth.

Everyone at Grüns works hard, but we believe in wellness and balance too. We have super strong benefits coverage -- for you and your family, generous PTO, free Grüns, and a few more perks centered around health and well-being that we can't wait to tell you about!