Quality Auditor

AppleOne Employment Services; Buffalo (NY); On-site; USD 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive training

Professional development

Full-time onsite

Job summary

AppleOne Employment Services in Buffalo, NY is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Auditor to join our onsite manufacturing team on a temp-to-hire basis. You will support the Quality Assurance department by performing inspections, testing, and documentation to ensure products meet specifications, regulatory requirements, and food safety standards.

This role emphasizes accurate data analysis, record-keeping, and collaboration with production and maintenance, with strong training and a culture of

Qualifications

• Inspect, test, and verify quality in a manufacturing environment.
• Maintain accurate quality documentation and inspection records.
• Analyze data, identify trends, and support investigations.
• Provide quality guidance to production, maintenance, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Perform first-off, in-process, and final inspections to verify quality.
• Use Go/No-Go gauges, precision measuring equipment, and quality tools.
• Review measurements and certificates of analysis for accuracy.
• Identify non-conforming materials and communicate defects.
• Maintain SAP quality hold entries and related documentation.
• Support GMP audits and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills

Inspection

Testing

Documentation

Data analysis

Quality systems

GMP audits

Education

College diploma in Quality Assurance

Tools

SAP

DeMeet

ATEQ

Go/No-Go gauges

Job description

Job Summary

We are seeking a detail-oriented Quality Auditor for a temp-to-hire opportunity with a stable and growing manufacturing team in Buffalo, NY. This onsite role supports the Quality Assurance department and plays a key part in ensuring products meet customer specifications, regulatory requirements, food safety standards, and internal quality expectations.

This is an excellent opportunity for a quality-focused professional who enjoys inspection, testing, documentation, and data analysis in a fast-paced production environment. The workplace offers strong training, supportive leadership, teamwork across production and quality teams, and a culture focused on safety, continuous improvement, and doing the job right.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform first-off, in-process, and final inspections to verify product quality, process stability, and compliance with established specifications.
• Use approved inspection and testing methods, including Go/No-Go gauges, precision measuring equipment, DeMeet systems, ATEQ testing systems, and other quality tools.
• Review measurements, quality data, raw material documentation, certificates of analysis, and supplier records for accuracy and compliance.
• Identify, quarantine, document, and communicate non-conforming materials, product defects, and cavity-specific quality concerns.
• Maintain accurate quality records, SAP quality hold entries, test results, inspection reports, retention samples, and related documentation.
• Support GMP audits, corrective action activities, internal audits, recall exercises, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Compensation and Benefits

• Temp-to-hire opportunity.
• Onsite position in Buffalo, NY 14225.
• Pay details provided include $22.00 to $25.00 per hour and $27.00 to $29.00 per hour. Final pay rate should be confirmed during the hiring process.
• Full-time onsite opportunity.
• Comprehensive training and professional development opportunities.
• Stable manufacturing environment with a team-oriented focus on quality, safety, and continuous improvement.

Required Qualifications and Skills

• Perform product inspections, testing, and quality verification activities in a manufacturing environment.
• Maintain accurate quality documentation, quality hold records, inspection reports, and compliance records.
• Analyze quality data, identify trends, and support investigations into non-conforming products.
• Provide quality guidance to production, maintenance, and operations teams.
• 1 to 2 years of related quality, manufacturing, production, or inspection experience preferred.
• Quality Assurance experience in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• Ability to use precision measuring tools, gauges, and approved inspection methods.
• Strong attention to detail, mathematical aptitude, and measurement skills.
• Ability to review quality data, identify trends, and support corrective action activities.
• Computer proficiency with Windows-based applications and business software.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Mechanical aptitude and an understanding of manufacturing processes.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision while collaborating effectively with production, maintenance, and quality teams.
• Commitment to following quality, food safety, environmental, and workplace safety procedures.

Preferred Qualifications

• College diploma in Quality Assurance, Manufacturing Technology, Engineering Technology, or a related technical discipline.
• Experience with SAP or a similar ERP system.
• Experience with quality documentation systems and data analysis tools.
• Exposure to food safety standards, GMP audits, ISO standards, or regulated manufacturing environments.
• Experience using DeMeet measurement systems, ATEQ testing systems, Go/No-Go gauges, or similar quality inspection equipment.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Disabled / Protected Veterans

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For temporary assignments lasting 13 weeks or longer, AppleOne is pleased to offer major medical, dental, vision, 401k and any statutory sick pay where required.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please contact your staffing representative who will reach out to our HR team.

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We also consider for employment qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements, including, if applicable, the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance. Pursuant to applicable state and municipal Fair Chance Laws and Ordinances, we will consider for employment-qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, including, if applicable, the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. For Los Angeles, CA applicants: Qualified applications with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act.