Quality Assurance Specialist – Sensory & Grading

Simplot Company; Grand Forks (ND); On-site; USD 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

The Simplot Company in Grand Forks, ND, seeks a Quality Assurance Clerk (Days) to uphold product quality across the plant. You will implement an integrated quality grading program, include sensory grading, and ensure compliance with safety, GMPs, and company standards.

You will train operators, perform quality checks on all lines, investigate customer complaints, and help develop grading policies. A high school diploma or GED is required; QA or auditing experience is preferred; sensory grading

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required.
• Quality Assurance or Auditing experience preferred.
• Must obtain Sensory Grading Certification within 2 months.
• Must be able to work around 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 Grading

Education

High school diploma or GED

Job description

The Simplot Company in Grand Forks, ND, seeks a Quality Assurance Clerk (Days) to uphold product quality across the plant. You will implement an integrated quality grading program, include sensory grading, and ensure compliance with safety, GMPs, and company standards.

You will train operators, perform quality checks on all lines, investigate customer complaints, and help develop grading policies. A high school diploma or GED is required; QA or auditing experience is preferred; sensory grading