Quality Technician

E. & J. Gallo Winery; Town of Canandaigua (NY); On-site; USD 10,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading winery as a Quality Technician, ensuring products meet high standards through detailed inspections and data analysis. Collaborate with teams to maintain quality assurance and perform lab testing. This role offers a competitive salary and benefits package, with a focus on safety and compliance.

Benefits

Competitive Benefits Package

Qualifications

• 3 years of production/operations or quality assurance experience.
• Experience in laboratory testing including volumetric and CO2.
• Skilled in data tracking and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Perform daily inspections of bottling lines.
• Collect and analyze quality data.
• Engage teams to resolve product holds.

Skills

Attention to Detail

Data Analysis

Troubleshooting

Communication

Education

High School Diploma

Associate of Science in Chemistry

Tools

MS Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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With a global portfolio of over 100 unique wine and spirits brands, we are the largest family-owned winery in the world. Apply Today! Our Brands. Your Future.

Join our dynamic team as a Quality Technician and be a pivotal part of ensuring our products meet the highest standards!

In this role, you will perform daily inspections of bottling lines, ensuring that finished goods packaging requirements are consistently met. Your keen eye for detail will aid in routine data analysis, recognizing unexpected deviations, and performing minor troubleshooting, while keeping the Supervisor informed of all findings and providing recommendations for routine situations.

You will play an essential role in the “Hold” process, creating holds when sampled products do not meet outlined specifications, and engaging teams to work on releasing the product hold. Collecting samples from bottling lines to ensure machinery does not contaminate products is a crucial part of your responsibilities. You will review, report, and trend quality data for complete and accurate results from the bottling line.

Your expertise in performing lab testing, including volumetric, CO2, holdback reading, brix, and alcohol, will be invaluable. Additionally, you will collect data, track metrics, defects, and test results, reporting your findings to your supervisor. Your role involves providing training on quality control product analyses, bottling quality assurance, and record-keeping procedures, ensuring our team is well-equipped to maintain high standards.

Supporting the company’s calibration and preventative maintenance program, you will perform quality checks and evaluations, taking appropriate actions to ensure result accuracy. You will utilize profiling, quality tools, and various data sources to determine causes of quality issues, working collaboratively with operations/quality teams to correct issues and suggest improvement opportunities.

Practicing safe work habits and maintaining a clean and orderly work area and instrumentation is paramount. Your role requires satisfactory attendance and compliance with applicable quality, environmental, and safety regulations.

SHIFT: Monday - Thursday, 4x10s, 2nd shift. 2:00p - 12:30a

What You Will Need:• High School Diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 3 years of production/operations or quality assurance experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility. OR• Associate of science degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Biology or Engineering plus 1 year of laboratory, or quality assurance experience;• Skilled in reading, comprehending, interpreting and executing simple instructions, short correspondence and memos.• Skilled in writing simple correspondence.• Skilled in the use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.• Skilled in adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing using whole numbers.• Required flexibility in working overtime and weekends as needed.• Required to lift and move product and samples weighing up to 45 pounds.• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.• Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.• Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

Gallo does not sponsor for employment based visas for this position now or in the future.

Compensation:

• Hiring Salary Range Posted: $19.41- $26.17 / hour
• Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by factors such as the education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.
• This position includes a competitive benefits package.
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This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting and requires working on-site with no telecommuting option. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.To view a full job description, please click here .

Application Window is Expected to Close On: May 25, 2025Requisition ID: 106026#LI-MS2OPE001

Gallo’s policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibiting discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at 209.341.7000.

Gallo is enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program and will use the program to verify the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees as required.