Quality Assurance Associate

This role will start out at $17.00 per hour, with a shift of 6:30 am–4:00 pm, Monday–Friday and alternating Saturdays.

Responsible for inspecting the product to identify quality issues and assisting with product re‑packing as needed.

• Provide technical, customer relations, and personnel management for major programs and projects.
• Conduct daily walk‑through of assigned coolers to check the quality of the product and identify any quality issues.
• Check dates of product for proper product rotation by date.
• Remove any distressed product, determine what product needs reworking and what product should be discarded.
• Rework all distressed/damaged products.
• Communicate quality issues to buyers, management, and associates. Report all lost product or transfers.
• Assure that all inventory is properly blocked and labeled.
• Inspect product on production lines; identify issues and notify line leads.
• Identify products according to size, origin, and count.

Prefer High School or GED.

A minimum of two (2) years related experience (knowledge of produce industry preferred).

• Ability to operate warehouse power equipment.
• Ability to interact with others in a professional manner.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• General understanding of the shipping procedures of a high volume warehouse operation.
• Solid understanding of produce varieties handled in a wholesale operation.

Most important decisions are made fully independently: identifying quality issues, removing disturbed and damaged product.

Most important decisions are made with review and approval of other individuals or supervisors (include the reviews/approvals required): all work is regularly reviewed by the supervisor and manager.

Please provide any other information that you think would help us further define the nature and scope of this position.

• Eliminated Produce QC Inspector title.
• Some stooping and bending required.
• Ability to manually inspect produce efficiently for periods of up to or exceeding eight (8) hours.
• They must be able to move around the work area freely.
• Frequent lifting of the product up to 50 lbs. during the shift, infrequent lifting up to 80 lbs.