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QUALITY LEAD 2ND SHIFT

Empire Packing Company
United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 1 Dec 2025
💰 $48,000/yr

About the role

Quality Lead
 

JBS is seeking an hourly 2nd SHIFT Quality Lead Team Member! Position starts at $24 per hour.

Benefits Include

  • Paid vacation and holidays
  • Medical, dental and vision benefits
  • 401(k) plan
  • Better Futures Program
  • Onsite Cafeteria
  • Career development opportunities

 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

  1. Conducts quality assurance testing and verifies and accurately documents products and raw materials on the plant floor. These may include verifying and documenting:
    1. In-process and finished product quality checks to ensure compliance to established specifications and temperature requirements.
    2. Labels to ensure they meet regulatory requirements including tare weights, UPC codes, legibility, establishment number, pricing and correct product identification.
    3. Incoming ingredients for compliance to established visual and temperature requirements.
    4. Sell-by and product dates on product runs.
  2. Investigates and determines cause or causes of quality defects and communicates with production team.
    1. Analyze facts or circumstances surrounding individual problems to do root causes analysis and preventive measures.
  3. Works with other leads and supervisors to coordinate activities of individual departments to ensure Quality Department coverage.
  4. Communicates to leads and supervisors when product is out of specification.
  5. Assists in validating plant-wide compliance with GMPs and employee safety rules.
    1. Assists leadership in Root Cause Analysis and implements preventative measures.
  6. Trains new team members as needed.
  7. Works independently or within a team as needed.
  8. Assembles of daily reports, paperwork, and blue label sheets as needed.
  9. Stays current with knowledge of GMP’s, SOP’s, standards, policies, procedures and specification of product.
  10. Verifies calibration of equipment.
  11. Maintains communication and updates as required by leadership.
  12. Performs detailed inspections, testing and documentation
    1. Trained and qualified in pre-operation activities
    2. Trained and qualified in HACCP documentation and activities
  13. Directs and leads a group of employees involved in inspection and quality procedures about in-process material and finished products to ensure that quality standards are achieved.
    1. Plans and assistance work of quality team as needed.
    2. Maintains expectations, morale, and harmonious relations among subordinates.
    3. Evaluates and communicates personnel performance or training needs.
  14. Maintains accurate quality records.
    1. Compiles and maintains accurate quality inspection records and reports.
  15. May assume other duties as assigned.

 

Qualifications

  • Prefer High School Diploma or equivalent certification
  • Prefer experience in food manufacturing/and or quality.
  • Ability to speak, read, and write English
  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Bilingual preferred
  • Good math skills
  • Must be well-organized with good attention to detail
  • Display strong work ethics and positive attitude
  • Adaptable and dependable with ability to follow direction
  • Must maintain a helpful and professional attitude and appearance
  • Ability to work independently or as a team and apply common sense understanding to carry out detailed instruction and communicate findings with QA & Production Leads, and Supervisors.

 

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