Quality Control Lead: Cold-Storage Food Safety & QC

Misfits-Market; Northlake (IL); On-site; USD 26,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

401(k)

Grocery box credit

Life insurance

Paid vacation

Paid holidays

Hourly rate

Job summary

Misfits Market is seeking a Quality Control Lead to join our operations team. You will perform QC checks at inbound, storage, production, and outbound stages, review data, and ensure food safety.

Reporting to the Quality Supervisor, you will maintain records, validate inbound deliveries, train new staff, and back up the QC Supervisor during absences. This role requires working in a refrigerated environment and lifting up to 50 lbs.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the United States.
• Experience or comfort with working in a refrigerated environment (36 degrees).
• Strong verbal communications skills.
• Willingness to work overtime and/or possible weekends if the business needs you to.
• Ability to lift up to 50 lbs repetitively with or without reasonable accommodation.
• Ability to stand, squat, kneel, and bend repetitively with or without reasonable accommodation.

Responsibilities

• Maintains a safe and healthy work environment by following standards and procedures; complies with all state and local regulations for a food-based facility.
• Performs frequent QC inspections on produce and grocery products throughout the warehouse, removes and documents any items that fail inspection.
• Documents and maintains legible, accurate records of all food products in the warehouse including discarded and damaged products from various departments.
• Responsible for validating the quality and accuracy of inbound deliveries, including temperature and pressure checks. Maintains databases and internal spreadsheets with current data.
• Identifies and reports any potential food safety or quality problems, immediately escalating to the QC Supervisor.
• Performs basic mathematical computations when conducting audits, inspections, and cycle counts.
• Ensures non-conforming materials are segregated and labeled for hold, rejection, or sort.
• Owns the inbound quality inspections and documentation processes. Verifies the quality and shelf-life of products in backstock and storage.
• Reviews internal communication channels for inbound trends and reimbursement reports, and makes plans accordingly.
• Effectively manages time and changing priorities to minimize downtime in the receiving and production departments.
• Applies strong interpersonal communication skills including the ability to train new team members according to company processes.
• Serves as backup to QC Supervisor and QA Lead, represents the FC in times of QC Supervisor's absence.

Skills

Verbal communication

Overtime readiness

Authorized to work in the U.S.

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Misfits Market is seeking a Quality Control Lead to join our operations team. You will perform QC checks at inbound, storage, production, and outbound stages, review data, and ensure food safety.

Reporting to the Quality Supervisor, you will maintain records, validate inbound deliveries, train new staff, and back up the QC Supervisor during absences. This role requires working in a refrigerated environment and lifting up to 50 lbs.