Food Safety & Quality Assurance NSIS Technologist - 2nd Shift

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A great job-and a great future-awaits you at Smithfield Foods. We are an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products. We’re looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us. Apply Now!

Your Opportunity

Our team members receive industry-competitive salaries and are eligible for great benefits packages:

• Competitive Pay

• Eligible for Overtime Pay

• Earn an additional $1.00/hour for 2nd and 3rd shift positions!*

• Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More

• Education benefit available to full and part time Smithfield team members on their first day of employment.

*Program eligibilities apply

In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth, professional development, and tuition assistance.

As part of our FS/QA team, you would conduct routine sanitation checks, ensuring that HACCP and USDA regulations are strictly enforced. You will be responsible for ensuring that we are able to safely deliver the best Smithfield, Eckrich, Nathan’s Famous, or any of our product brands to customers and consumers.

This position is responsible for performing NSIS procedures. The New Swine Inspection System (NSIS) was developed by the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to produce a flexible, more efficient, fully integrated meat inspection system. The NSIS system, in contrast with the traditional inspection system, focuses more control for food safety and other consumer protection activities on the establishment with Agency personnel focusing on carcass and verification system activities. The NSIS Technologist conducts all the necessary inspections of live hogs, heads, carcasses, and viscera. The NSIS Technologist is responsible for identifying and controlling potential food safety hazards occurring from pathological conditions in these items and contamination occurring during processing.

Core Responsibilities

• Recognize and identify diseases, consumer concerns, and contamination in pork/swine in compliance with Federal Regulation, Directives, and Guidelines.

• Ensures product meets definitions of RTC pork.

• Monitor and communicate with helpers to ensure that the correct tag and marking is used to identify carcass/swine pathology and other carcass inspection issues.

• Clearly and effectively communicate with USDA officials and Plant Management on technical issues and complete/verify necessary inspection documentation.

• Works with other departments to implement procedure changes, based on predetermined specifications, involving raw materials and finished goods to remedy the cause of any non-compliance as quickly as possible.

• Ability to interpret customer and sales specifications and apply subjective quality decisions to product (ie: product appearance, color, texture, etc).

• Utilize technical knowledge to prevent and identify the root cause of process or product failures.

• Continuous improvement of product quality through attention to process expected.

• Additional duties as assigned.

Absence

• In the absence of key personnel, the employee’s supervisor or qualified designee (one that has been trained in the key employee's duties) is responsible to complete or delegate the completion of all required tasks and responsibilities.

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. May perform other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.  The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.  Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions. 

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED), required

• For internal candidates with 4+ years of experience with the company, the Company has the discretion to waive educational requirements.

• 2+ years’ experience (Harvest processing, USDA inspector, or FSQA) in a related field, preferred.

• Bilingual Preferred. Must have the ability to complete required applicable forms in English, which requires the ability to read and write in