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