Food Safety & Quality Assurance; FSQA Technician; Night Shift

Pay for this position is $20.00/hour.

Aero Farms offers benefits that include enrollment in 401k, Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance, PTO, and more.

Aero Farms is the commercial leader in vertical farming. We are a non‑GMO operation that uses zero herbicides, fungicides, or pesticides, along with 95% less water compared to conventional agriculture, and can grow the best leafy greens 365/24/7 without worrying about seasons. We are on a bold mission to grow the best plants possible for the betterment of humanity.

Since 2004, we have been transforming agriculture with people and planet in mind. As a Certified B Corporation, we use the latest breakthroughs in indoor vertical farming, artificial intelligence and plant biology to fix our broken food system and improve the way fresh produce is grown and distributed locally and globally. We have built a proprietary agriculture platform to grow a wide array of products, delivering superior flavor, better quality and improved nutrition with the most sophisticated levels of traceability and food safety in our industry.

The world needs our help. By 2050, there will be 9 billion people on the planet with less arable land than ever before. We need a solution to cultivate more using less and define the future of farming for generations to come. In 2004, Aero Farms began transforming agriculture with humans and our planet at the forefront.

In 2022 Aero Farms embarked on rapid growth in North America. Aero Farms agriculture technology continues to grow unprecedented sustainable products, delivering elevated flavor, taste, experience, quality, access, and unmatched nutrition to you.

Here’s how we’re growing the best plants possible for the betterment of humanity:

• Researching and understanding plants to be better, more intuitive farmers
• Elevating local communities by increasing access to nutritious, high‑quality, consistent, and safe products in a way that’s better for you and the planet
• Protecting and sustaining our environment for future generations
• Pioneering consistent, and scalable indoor vertical farming food safety & traceability practices, and manufacturing standards
• Building and deploying state‑of‑the‑art automated indoor vertical farms across the country using the latest technological advancements available today.
• Investing in our Aero Farms humans and fostering our diverse company culture of inclusion, equity, excellence, teachability and curiosity

As Aero Farms approaches our next phase of explosive growth, we seek out creative, motivated humans who will join us in disrupting industry standards and lead the way in vertical farming, artificial intelligence, and plant biology breakthroughs to solve, and tackle global issues. If a team of 200+ intellectually curious and caring humans, expansive global operations, and our change‑the‑world mission resonates with you, apply today.

• Monitoring and documenting all food safety programs.
• Responsible for monitoring product safety throughout the manufacturing process and to ensure the product meets Aero Farms’ standards and specifications.
• Support compliance, monitoring, and trending of key programs including but not limited to GAP/GMP, Pest Prevention, Internal Auditing, Microbiological, and Environmental Monitoring.
• Report food safety and quality non-conformances and deviations to Food Safety Supervisor. Placing the product on hold and further evaluation.
• Enforce GMP and Food Safety policies to ensure that Aero Farms quality standards are always maintained.
• Monitors food safety alerts on an ongoing basis; and effectively communicates to all functional departments on food safety information and updates.
• Generate value for Aero Farms by anticipating, analyzing, solving, and preventing problems.
• Perform Pre‑Operational Inspections before start‑up and report any inadequacies to the Food Safety Supervisor.
• Complies with the enforcement of all GMP policies, documentation, and record‑keeping per company standards.
• Special assignments upon request from the Sr. Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance.

• High School Diploma
• 1‑2 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment or…