Food Quality Assurance Lead

SunGold Foods Inc., a division of Red River Commodities, creates roasted ingredients and food products to meet our customers’ specific formulations and provide them with custom packaging solutions. We are currently seeking a Lead Quality Assurance Technician for our production location near Horace, ND and have a variety of shifts available.

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Pay: $21.50 - $25.50
Available Shifts (Monday-Friday)

1st Shift: 7:00am - 3:30pm
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Job Responsibilities: Other duties may be assigned.

• Performs product and equipment verification activities.
• Prepares various production paperwork.
• Facilitates quality technicians and duties as needed.
• Selects products and ingredients for tests at specified stages in production process.
• Tests these products and ingredients for variety of organoleptic qualities and allergens
• Interprets gathered data against formulas, standards, and specifications to determine quality and reliability standards.
• Records test data, applying statistical quality control procedures.
• Evaluates data and communicates results with production to identify the product as within control limits, encroaching control limits, trending negatively or outside of specifications.
• Recommends modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within limits of equipment capability.
• Determine inferior product and place the product on hold until it can be retested and dispositioned.
• Prepares graphs, charts of data, or enters data into computer for analysis.
• To work in a way that complies with food safety codes and keeps all product safe and GFCO complaint.
• Oversee weekly, monthly, and quarterly verification activities in addition to line verifications when not covering QA Tech vacations.

Qualifications:

• Relatable degree or minimum of one years of related lab/QA experience
• Familiar with industrial food manufacturing or edible food production
• Ability to understand Quality Standard Operating Procedures and Sanitation Operating Procedures
• Understanding of FDA’s Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and knowledge of HACCP Allergen Risk Management
• Must be time oriented, able to work in a fast-paced environment and work alone.
• Computer knowledge and data entry skills including Excel, Word, and Microsoft related programs.
• Identifies and resolves problems in a timely manner by gathering and analyzing information and develops alternative solutions using this information.
• Includes appropriate people in decision-making process, is willing to make final decisions and can support and explain reasoning for the decisions.
• Develops and implements workable plans; effectively communicates changes to the plans.
• Ability to stand for duration of shift and lift to 50 lbs.
• Able to meet productivity standards, have accuracy and work independently.
• Able to pass a pre-employment drug test.

Benefits:

• Competitive pay
• Paid time off
• Paid Holidays
• Medical, dental & vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short & long term disability insurance
• 401k & company match
• Ongoing job skills, learning and advancement opportunities.
• Employee Assistance Program

Red River Commodities and its subsidiaries are an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all employment practices within our organization. Red River Commodities makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.