Quality Assurance Associate

Responsibilities:

• 50% In support of Director and/or Sr. Quality Manager to insure product safety and quality systems implementation, maintain ingredient approval, training, assessment, and compliance.

• 20% Proactively manage and resolve product safety and regulatory issues in collaboration with head office quality team, regulatory affairs insuring root cause identification and preventative actions. Provide targeted follow-up on claims and complaints.

• 20% Develop a working knowledge of pre-mix Quality Control, systems, processes, and procedures as related to plant manufacturing. Act as the champion for product safety/quality; monitor and repost on trends alerting the Director and/or Sr. Quality Mgr.

• 5% Lead assigned projects in critical process monitoring and capability; working with operations, QA/QC, and plants to establish new product/process measurements and preventative control at the source.

• 5% Able to back up divisional formulator and create formulations in Brill software as needed.

Education and Experience Required:

• High school diploma
• 3+ months of Quality experience in a manufacturing setting or related experience

Education and Experience Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Food, Dairy Science, or related field. 
• 2 years of progressive quality assurance experience