Job Description:
Job Summary: Develop, implement and monitor Quality Control practices throughout J & J Family of Farms supply chain to ensure compliance with company and customer specifications.
Position Reports to:
VP of Operations
Requirements:
- Good computer skills (Word , Access, Excel, PowerPoint).
- Must be able to set and attain goals, initiate action to resolve problems and improve products and processes.
- Must be able to provide concise executive summaries of quality issues, summaries changes needed or made to QA processes.
- Good organizational and project management skills.
- Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interface with a variety of people at various technical and management levels.
- Must be able to maintain confidentially of information and work in crises situation.
Preferred:
- Speak and write Spanish.
- In-depth knowledge of quality principles and technical tools.
- Associate (or higher) degree in a technical discipline preferred.
- Formal training in quality planning, tools and analysis.
- Working knowledge of various agriculture processes.
- Working knowledge of FDA- compliant, process control and quality system management related to agriculture.
Responsibilities & Duties:
Develop formal Quality Control practices, reports and communication protocols for our retail and food service customers in the following functional areas:
J & J Facilities:
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Cooler:
- Inbound product (finished goods)
- Inventory
- Shipping – Outbound product
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Packing Line:
- Inbound bins
- Outbound product
- Quality Control observations while running to ensure product meets designated specifications
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Repack:
- Quality Control observations while running to ensure product meets designated specific
- Outbound product
- Fields – Initial and ongoing Quality Control observations to determine product quality, sizes and yields
- Material Grower Facilities:
-
Cooler:
- Inbound product (finished goods)
- Inventory
- Shipping – Outbound product
-
Packing Line:
- Outbound product
- Quality Control observations while running to ensure product meets designated specifications
-
Fields – Initial and ongoing Quality Control observations to determine product quality, sizes and yields
- Shipper Facilities:
- Cooler: - Shipping – Outbound boxes
- Develop, maintain, and revise updates of all Quality SOPs.
- Perform special projects on analytical information related to Quality and Food Safety
- Support teams in selecting quality measures and setting up quality reporting systems.
- Coordinate and/or facilitate improvement project teams among growers.
- Maintain grower/ shipper quality objectives.
- Monitor and report on quality metrics and progress toward quality goals.
- Recommend test and inspection equipment as required to achieve quality goals.
- Work with new product development teams to establish product quality standards.
- Assist in the analyzing and evaluation of resulting data for improvement opportunities.
- Partner with the Food Safety team to coordinate support and maintenance of our quality system.
- Assist in the development of quality related policy objectives.
- Other duties as assigned