Quality Assurance Technician
About the role
Join our team as a Quality Assurance Technician, where you'll play a critical role in ensuring the products our customers receive meet the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance. In this hands-on role, you'll work closely with production teams to monitor processes, perform inspections and testing, maintain compliance documentation, and help drive a culture of excellence throughout our manufacturing facility. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, have a keen eye for detail, and enjoy solving problems, we'd love to hear from you. This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Hopkins, MN. Workplace type is fully onsite.
Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.
Responsibilities
- Inspect finished products and in-process materials to verify compliance with quality, food safety, and customer specifications.
- Conduct routine production floor audits to ensure proper product composition, packaging, labeling, coding, storage, and handling practices.
- Complete and review quality assurance documentation accurately and in a timely manner.
- Perform scheduled compliance checks, including weight verification, case inspections, label reviews, coding validation, and customer-required testing.
- Monitor daily facility activities and document findings to support food safety and quality standards.
- Conduct pre-operational inspections, environmental monitoring, swabbing activities, chemical testing, product testing, and glass inspections.
- Identify, investigate, and communicate quality concerns or food safety risks, partnering with cross-functional teams to implement corrective actions.
- Manage product hold procedures for out-of-specification materials and ensure accurate communication of product status.
- Create and document defective material reports for supplier-related quality concerns.
- Maintain product retain samples and assist with investigations, trend analysis, and root-cause identification.
- Support customer and sales sample programs by preparing, tracking, and documenting sample requests.
- Enter and maintain laboratory and production data with a high level of accuracy and organization.
Qualifications
- Associate's degree in Food Science, Biology, Chemistry, or a related field.
- Bilingual in Spanish is preferred.
Pay
The pay range for this position is $20.00 - $24.00/hr. Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.
Benefits
- Medical, dental & vision
- Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life