Quality Assurance Associate

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.
• Insure that all inventory is properly blocked and labeled.
• Inspect product on production lines; identifies issues and notifies line leads.
• Identify products according to size, origin, and count.

Qualifications

• Prefer High School or GED.
• 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.

Physical Demands and Work Environment

• Please provide any other information that you think would help us further define the nature and scope of this position.
• Eliminated Produce QC Inspector title.
• Some stooping and bending required.
• Ability to manually inspect produce efficiently for periods of up to or exceeding eight (8) hours.
• Frequent lifting of the product up to 50 lbs. during the shift, infrequent lifting up to 80 lbs.