Quality Assurance & Sensory Grading Specialist

J.R. Simplot Company; Grand Forks (ND); On-site; USD 42,000 - 64,000; Full time

Job summary

The Simplot Company is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to ensure that quality attributes throughout the facility are evaluated consistently and thoroughly. You will maintain an integrated grading program spanning upstream, sensory, and finished product grading to meet customer, regulatory, and company standards.

You will audit, train, test, and participate in developing product grading policies and procedures for the factory quality systems and support safety, sanitation and GMPs across

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Auditing

Sensory Evaluation

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

The Simplot Company is seeking a Quality Assurance professional to ensure that quality attributes throughout the facility are evaluated consistently and thoroughly. You will maintain an integrated grading program spanning upstream, sensory, and finished product grading to meet customer, regulatory, and company standards.

You will audit, train, test, and participate in developing product grading policies and procedures for the factory quality systems and support safety, sanitation and GMPs across