QA Technician - Moses Lake Production Campus

Simplot Company; Moses Lake (WA); On-site; USD 66,125,000 - 71,635,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) savings plan

10 paid holidays

Vacation time

Paid family building leave

Education assistance

Benefits details available at simplotb

Job summary

The Simplot Company is hiring a QA Technician for the Moses Lake Production Campus. The role focuses on evaluating quality attributes across the facility, maintaining an integrated grading program, and developing product grading policies to meet customer, regulatory, and company standards.

Responsibilities include managing proficiency programs, ensuring safety, quality, and GMP compliance, and training staff in grading and analytical procedures.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED is required.
• Experience in QA or auditing is preferred.
• Certification in sensory grading must be obtained within 2 months.

Responsibilities

• Manage operator and technician proficiency program.
• Maintain communication with team members and support groups in a participative style.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, plant procedures and the CBA.
• Maintain safety, quality, food safety, sanitation and GMP standards.
• Evaluate customer or interplant samples prior to shipment as needed.
• Perform quality checks and sampling for all lines per procedures.
• Train hourly and management personnel in product grading, sensory evaluation, and analytics.
• Investigate customer complaints and non-conformities; recommend corrective actions.
• Document shift information and ensure timely, accurate reporting.
• Handle additional accountabilities to meet operational standards.
• Conduct frozen waste sampling and monitor line flow and recovery.

Education

High school diploma or GED

Quality Assurance or Auditing experience preferred

Sensory Grading Certification within 2 months

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QA Technician - Moses Lake Production Campus

The Simplot Company is a diverse, privately held global food and agriculture company headquartered in Boise, Idaho. We are a true farm-to-table company with an integrated portfolio including food processing and food brands, phosphate mining, fertilizer manufacturing, farming, ranching and cattle production, and other enterprises related to agriculture.

Summary

This role exists to ensure that quality attributes throughout the facility are evaluated in a thorough and consistent manner. This role will maintain an integrated quality grading program to include upstream grading, sensory grading and finished product grading to ensure products meet customer, regulatory and Company standards. This role will also audit, train, test, evaluate, define and participate in the development of product grading policies and procedures for the factory quality systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage operator and technician proficiency program.
• Maintain necessary level of communication with team members and other support groups and does so in a participative management style conducive with operational goals.
• Ensure self-compliance with Company policies and plant procedures, and the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
• Maintain Company standards for safety, quality, food safety, sanitation and GMPs.
• Evaluate customer or interplant samples prior to shipment or as needed.
• Performs required quality checks and sampling for all lines and ensures that they are conducted in compliance with established procedures and specifications.
• Conduct product grading, sensory evaluation and analytical procedure training to hourly and management personnel.
• Participate in investigating customer complaints, out-of-specification and failure investigations and recommend corrective actions. Utilize computer and computer programs to communicate, document, and track shift information and ensures that all documents and reports are completed accurately in a timely and efficient manner.
• Ensure that additional accountabilities required by management are handled in a manner necessary to meet operational standards.
• Conducts frozen waste sampling, reject ratio and line flow length and ensures that recovery and quality is maximized.

Typical Education

High school diploma or general education degree (GED)

• Quality Assurance or Auditing experience preferred.
• A combination of education and experience will be considered.
• Must obtain Sensory Grading Certification within 2 months.
• Must be able to work around and consume products containing soy, wheat, and dairy.

Job Requisition ID: 27662

Travel Required:

Country: United States

Rate of Pay: $24.03/hr Attractive total rewards package that includes:

• 401(k) savings plan
• 10 Paid Holidays
• Vacation Time
• Details available in Collective Bargaining Agreement
• Paid Family Building Leave
• Education Assistance
• Benefits details available at simplotbenefits.com

The Simplot Company is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, marital status, or any other protected status.