Quality Control Lead: Food Safety & Warehouse

Misfits Market; Hanover (MD); On-site; USD 24,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive medical, dental, and視on?

401(k)

Annual Misfits grocery box credit

Life insurance

Paid vacation time

Paid holidays

Hourly rate: $21/hr

Job summary

Misfits Market is hiring a Quality Control Lead to reinforce warehouse quality checks across inbound, storage, production, and outbound stages. You will review data early in the process and partner with the QC Supervisor to uphold safety standards while protecting product quality and affordability.

You will operate in a refrigerated environment (36 degrees), follow GDP and SQF guidelines, and report to the Quality Supervisor.

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.
• Strictly adheres to the SQF Food Safety Code while monitoring the warehouse floor to ensure all employees consistently follow GDP rules.
• Drives a proactive “see something, say something” culture, escalating concerns and taking swift action as needed.
• Performs QC inspections on produce and grocery products; removes and documents items that fail inspection.
• Documents and maintains records of all food products in the warehouse including discarded and damaged products.
• Validates the quality and accuracy of inbound deliveries, including temperature and pressure checks; maintains data in databases and spreadsheets.
• Identifies and reports potential food safety or quality problems, escalating to the QC Supervisor.
• Performs basic mathematical computations for audits, inspections, and cycle counts.
• Ensures non-conforming materials are segregated and labeled for hold, rejection, or sort.
• Owns inbound quality inspections and documentation; verifies quality and shelf-life of products in backstock.
• Reviews internal communication channels for inbound trends and reimbursement reports; plans accordingly.
• Manages time and changing priorities to minimize downtime in receiving and production.
• Trains new team members according to company processes; represents the FC when QC Supervisor is absent.

Skills

Verbal communication

OT flexibility

Physical stamina

Refrigerated work

Education

HS Diploma or equivalent

Job description

Misfits Market is hiring a Quality Control Lead to reinforce warehouse quality checks across inbound, storage, production, and outbound stages. You will review data early in the process and partner with the QC Supervisor to uphold safety standards while protecting product quality and affordability.

You will operate in a refrigerated environment (36 degrees), follow GDP and SQF guidelines, and report to the Quality Supervisor.