Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician-1st Shift

Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician - 1st Shift

Performs a variety of quality and/or safety checks to ensure compliance with quality standards, reliability standards, and all specifications. Assists with troubleshooting and resolving quality issues through audits, sampling, inspection, and functional testing. Supports implementation of new quality processes.

Butterball, a recognized name in turkey, represents more than 60 years of cherished memories, providing quality, great tasting products that make meals something to celebrate every day. Life at Butterball means having a team who supports you, having the opportunity to grow personally and professionally, and making an impact on the health of others daily.

Whether you choose to work at one of our five (5) manufacturing facilities in NC, AR, MO, farms in AR, NC, and KS, corporate office in NC, IL, or in the field, we believe we have an opportunity for everyone to succeed.

• Monitors processes to ensure compliance with food safety, regulatory and company compliance, including GMP, HACCP, and SOPs.
• Collects microbiological and product samples for testing and evaluation.
• Performs checks of product quality against specifications.
• Assists with audits of the process, GMP’s, food safety, and customer audits.
• Investigates issues related to Quality and Food Safety.
• Records findings and assists with troubleshooting quality, safety, or sanitation issues.
• Applies holds to nonconforming products and materials.
• Assists with product improvement projects.
• Assists with data verification and quality metrics reporting.

• High school diploma, GED, or equivalent.
• 1+ year of experience or the knowledge, skills, and abilities to succeed in the role.

• Safety First:
  We put safety first. The health, safety, and well-being of our people, products, and turkeys is everyone's responsibility and everyone's jobs.
• Integrity:
  We trust each other to do the right thing. We act with integrity and gain the confidence and trust of others through honesty, respect, and authenticity.
• Stewardship:
  We take care of what matters. We are accountable to our commitments and take responsibility for the well-being of our teams, our quality, our customers, our business, our brand, and our communities.
• Enthusiastic Attitudes:
  We create a climate where everyone feels they belong and can be engaged, every day. Where our people are enthusiastic and motivated to do their best and work together to make great things happen.
• Continuous Improvement:
  We are committed to continuous improvement. We challenge ourselves and our company to constantly learn, develop, grow, improve, and innovate.

• Knowledge of workplace safety rules.
• Basic understanding of manufacturing processes.
• Good math skills.
• Ability to speak, read, and write in English.
• Good communication and customer service skills with the ability to interact at all levels.
• Excellent attention to detail.
• Firm problem‑solving, organization, time‑management, and critical thinking skills.
• Ability to understand and follow directions to ensure compliance with all applicable standards and regulations.

Physical Demands

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be regularly required to stand, sit, talk, hear, reach, stoop, kneel, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer, telephone, keyboard, and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

• Work will be performed in a variety of conditions. Occasionally in a climate‑controlled office environment(s) and primarily in a manufacturing plant environment with varying conditions, such as cold areas, wet areas, warm areas, chemicals, and other site conditions. This position requires the individual to wear and work in personal protective equipment while in the manufacturing environment.
• The noise level of the office environment is usually moderate; the noise level in the manufacturing environment may…