Quality Assurance Associate
FreshPoint, Inc. · Orlando, FL · 1 mo ago
On-siteQuality AssuranceFull-time
About the role
Responsible for inspecting the product to identify quality issues and assisting with product repacking as needed.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical, customer relations, and personnel management for major programs and projects.
- Conduct daily walk-through of assigned coolers to check the quality of the product and identify any quality issues.
- Check dates of product for proper product rotation by date.
- Remove any distressed product, determine what product needs reworking and what product should be discarded.
- Rework all distressed/damaged products
- Communicate quality issues to buyers, management, and associates.
- Report all lost product or transfers.
- Assure that all inventory is properly blocked and labeled.
- Inspects product on production lines; identifies issues and notifies line leads
- Identifies products according to size, origin, and count
- Decision Making Authority: Most Important Decisions Made Fully Independently Identifying quality issues, removing the distressed and damaged product; Most important decisions made with review and approval of other individuals or supervisors (include the reviews/approvals required): All work regularly reviewed by the supervisor and manager.
Qualifications
- Education: Prefer High School or GED
- Experience: A minimum of two (2) years related experience (knowledge of produce industry preferred).
Skills
- Ability to operate warehouse power equipment.
- Ability to interact with others in a professional manner.
- Good verbal and written communication skills.
- General understanding of the shipping procedures of a high volume warehouse operation.
- Solid understanding of produce varieties handled in a wholesale operation.
Requirements
- Some stooping and bending required.
- Ability to manually inspect produce efficiently for periods of up to or exceeding eight (8) hours.
- Must be able to move around the work area freely.
- Frequent lifting of the product up to 50 lbs. during the shift, infrequent lifting up to 80 lbs.
- Eliminated Produce QC Inspector title.