Quality Assurance Technician - Third Shift

Utz Quality Foods is looking to grow our loyal, career driven, and customer focused team, and is currently recruiting for a Quality Assurance Technician to work from our manufacturing facility located in Grand Rapids, Michigan for our Third shift.

As a Quality Assurance Technician, this candidate will serve as a source of knowledge about these different aspects of food manufacturing and safety. You will assure that all regulatory, safety and quality parameters are met. You are the last line of defense prior to product shipping to the consumer. This position will work 10:45pm-7:00am.

Essential Functions

• Data entry, documentation, follow up on non-conforming attributes

• Verify that all documentation is legible, accurate, complete, timely, and archived in an orderly fashion as directed by the Quality Assurance Supervisor

• Perform attribute testing at set frequencies, which include: Net weight, PDQ, Oxygen, weight/10, oil content, moisture content, seasoning/salt content, FFA testing and others

• Prepare and verify customer samples are complete, that they satisfy requirements and specification and that they pass general inspection.

• Maintain cleanliness of Quality Assurance lab and equipment

• Perform CCP testing, documentation

• Complete any non-conforming holds as needed

• Inform production leadership of food safety, out of specification, and policy violations immediately

• Deliver quick, accurate, and informed feedback to production leadership

• Remain aware of the production schedule and prevent delays in production by anticipating line starts/changeovers

• Provide production paperwork such as PSUs, skid sheets, labels, etc. as needed

• Maintain lab security

• Answer lab phone

• Assist Quality Assurance Supervisor as directed

• Be the example in following GMPs, OSHA Safety, and all other procedures

Continuously Pursuing Excellence!

Here at Utz, we have a passion for exciting and delighting consumers with delicious snack foods made from high quality ingredients. After over a century with a strong family heritage, our diverse portfolio of brands includes Utz, Zapp's, Boulder Canyon, and On the Border. Our associates are the reason for the success of this company, so it is important we provide a supportive, caring and inclusive environment that offers opportunities for career growth and advancement. We also help take care of our associates by providing benefits, resources, and programs that ensure they live their healthiest lives. Our benefit package includes medical, dental, and vision plans, an employer match 401k, profit sharing plan, employee stock purchase plan and much more. Join our world class team and help us become the fastest growing pure-play U.S. snacking company of scale!

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

• Key Responsibilities
• Comprehensive in practices, procedures and techniques involved in food manufacturing
• Has interpersonal skills using tact, patience and courtesy
• Uses proper lifting techniques
• Comprehensive in general mathematic calculations
• Basic inventory practices and procedures
• Oral and written communication skills
• Comprehensive in record-keeping procedures
• Effective communication in English language
• Comprehensive Sensory Testing Requirements
• Must be able to lift 30 pounds and work on their feet, while using tools to perform repetitive actions
• Lifting, carrying, pushing or pulling moderately heavy objects as assigned by position.
• Dexterity of hands and fingers for product testing
• Reaching overhead, above shoulders and horizontally.
• Bending at the waist, kneeling, sitting, or crouching
• Seeing to monitor food quality and quantity.
• The ability to stand and walk for an entirety of a shift.