Quality Inspector II

For over 60 years, Meri Cal has been at the forefront of innovation in the dietary supplement industry, delivering custom manufacturing and packaging solutions with passion and precision. With state-of-the-art facilities in Southern California and Ogden, UT, we transform ideas into high-quality products—from research and development to the finished products. Our team, with over 30 years of combined experience, is dedicated to crafting exceptional gummies, probiotics, tablets, capsules, chewables, and powders using clinically backed ingredients.

At Meri Cal, we don’t just meet expectations—we exceed them, every time. Join us and be part of a dynamic, forward-thinking team shaping the future of nutrition!

A Quality Inspector is responsible for ensuring all dietary supplement products comply with the specifications established by Merical and cGMPs. The Quality Inspector is responsible for conducting objective & subjective measures and making determinations if any non - conformance occurred. The Quality Inspector works to guarantee high quality output through random sampling andtestingonanything from receiving, inprocess manufacturing and finished packaging product for release.

Items that do not meet specificationsareinvestigated and written documented corrective actions taken to ensure theissue does not occur again.

• Ensuring Good Manufacturing Practices  [21
  
  CFRPart) are adhered.
  
  Independently perform inspection across multiple production stages proficiently and ensure compliance with quality
• standards.
• Ability to follow instructions to comprehend the quality expectations for the materials, components or products.
• Conducts sampling(Analytical,Microbial,Customer and Retains]andensurestestingagainst appropriate methods. Sampling must be conducted appropriately usinggood technique and verifying
• against dimensional and functional specifications.
  
  Maintain records of testing, information, and various metrics such as quantity of defective products per batch.
• Collect samples for Analytical, Microbial, Customer and Retains as applicable and document within the appropriate quality record (batch record, specification,unipoint, etc.}).
• Communicate to next levelleaderprior torejectingrawmaterials, inprocess manufacturing or finished product with respect to quality standards.
• Performs in process testing [such as allergen, ATP, Water Activity, Brix, Hardness, Thickness, Friability, etc.]. Provides guidance to manufacturing team on corrective actions forout-of-specification results.
• Verifies Bill of Materials[bulk &packaging components}and ensures proper
  10 tagging and organization ofrawmaterials, components, staged bulk and finished goods ontheproduction floor including reconciliation and pallet counts.
• Abilitytoenterqualitydata&verifyexpirationdatesintoERPsystempriorto Finished Goods release .
• Verifiesbatchrecordmatchesitemsstagedwithinmanufacturingandpackaginglines.
• Verifies monitoring equipment[scales,metal detectors,torque meteretc.]is functioning correctly per our established SOPs.
• Conduct bulk andfinalproduct acceptable quality limit (AQL} inspections per established SOPs. Understands varying sampling schemes based on sample size and AQL parameters.
• Responsible for reviewing the cleaning Logs and provide verification authorization signature to release lines.
• Ensureproperholdproceduresandcommunicationoralertmanagementofanyunusualoccurrenceand any pertinent issues that affectraw materials, production and/or packaging.
• Inspectsandmaintainsworkingenvironmentroutinelyandensuresadherencetocompanysafety policies and procedures.
• Mayberequiredtooperateforklift,pallet jacks,etc.ifneeded.
• Performsotherdutiesasassigned.

• Must have 3+ experience working in a quality related environment.
• Should be…