2nd Shift Quality Assurance Technician/Técnico de Control de Calidad 2-Turno

About the role

Villari Foods is seeking three Quality Control Technicians for their Warsaw, NC warehouse location. The ideal candidate will have a strong work ethic, leadership skills, and excellent organizational skills.

Responsibilities

• Ensure HACCP CCPs are verified and documented based on regulatory guidelines.
• Slaughter CCPs are met for milk, ingesta and fecal and offal CCPs are met.
• RTE cook and chilling CCPs are met.
• Heat treated not fully cooked (HTNFC) chilling CCPs are met.
• Raw intact and raw non-intact CCPs are met.
• Conduct quality audits on product temperatures, label checks, metal detection, packaging checks, weight control, verify brine formulation and pump checks, blending of ingredients and restricted ingredients.
• Adhere to product specifications during harvesting and on finished packaged products.
• Ensure segregation is followed throughout each step of special claims handling.
• Avoid contamination by adhering to GMPs.
• Comply with all SSOP guidelines and quality manual policies.
• Perform monthly internal audits at the direction of the SQF Practitioner.
• Communicate quality and facility issues to QC Supervisor.
• Maintain a safe work environment following company procedures and safety regulations.
• Perform other tasks as directed.

Requirements

• GED or High school diploma.
• 1-year experience in related field (high-volume food manufacturing preferred).

Qualifications

• Excellent plant regulatory and HACCP skills.
• Excellent communication skills - both written and oral.
• Ability to read and write in English.
• Ability to perform basic arithmetic functions such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite, AS400, and Lotus Notes.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to meet deadlines and work well under pressure.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Opportunity to earn overtime hours.
• Medical, dental, and vision Insurance.
• Company-paid life insurance.
• 401K.
• Paid vacation days and holidays.
• Employee discounts on Villari meat products.
• Opportunities for employee recognition.
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!

What Villari Food Group offers you

• Opportunities for employee recognition.
• Opportunities for promotion from within; more than 80% of our leaders started in an entry-level position at Villari Foods!

How Villari Foods is different

• Family-owned and operated business.
• People-focused culture.
• Strives for a better quality of work-life with a slower pace that avoids eventual burnout.

Physical requirements and work environment

• The work environment characteristics and physical demands described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
• The work environment will include cold temperatures between 50℉ to 10℉ (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.
• Villari Foods will provide cold-weather gear to you.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud.
• Frequently lift and/or move up to 50 pounds, occasionally up to 100 pounds.
• Able to drive a registered motor vehicle to satisfy daily requirements.
• Frequently required to stand, use hands and/or fingers to grasp, handle, feel, reach, and pull.
• Occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

More about Villari Foods

• Founded in 1925 by Sam Villari, Villari Foods is still a family-owned business with a rich history.
• Sam came to America from Italy, instilled with the value his native culture placed on pure, good food as an integral part of the family and social life.
• We combine our unwavering commitment to Old World quality with our capacity to keep pace with evolving customer demands – and exceed expectations for great taste, good health, variety, value, convenience, and creativity in the kitchen.
• We offer a wide variety of quality pork and other meat products for retail, food service, and export markets.
• We understand and are responding to consumer preferences for meat products that are locally sourced, humanely raised, organic, and free of antibiotics, hormones, and steroids.
• We’re well known for our smoked products.
• As part of Villari Foods, we also have our own livestock and trucking operations, which allows for greater quality control and extraordinary customer service, including superior delivery options.
• We partner with local farms and are committed to environmental sustainability.

EEO Statement

• Villari Food Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity.
• All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual, or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.