NA Quality Assurance (3rd shift)
Summary
Overnight-shift Quality Assurance technician at Michael Foods' Elizabeth, NJ food plant, verifying that incoming ingredients, packaging, and finished products meet specifications through lab testing, inspections, and documentation. Involves HACCP/GMP compliance, ATP and environmental swabbing, and MS Office data entry.
Feeding the world is what we do – how we do it is unique. We are not your textbook consumer packaged goods company. While others may be slow to make change happen, Post continuously drives both inorganic and organic growth. Our history is evidence of that fact with over 100 years of heritage and growth from brands that transcend generations like Honey Bunches of Oats, Fruity Pebbles, Malt-O-Meal, Bob Evans, Kibbles 'n Bits, Egg Beaters, Peter Pan peanut butter and more. Our foodservice and ingredient businesses supply other products you love for brands, restaurants and stores.
We have more than 55 offices and manufacturing sites and approximately 13,000 employees. Over the past 13 years, Post has made 28+ acquisitions and innovative financial transactions and reached $8.2 billion in net sales in fiscal 2025. During turbulent times of market uncertainty, the food industry has provided a level of stability unlike other industries
Post Holdings, Inc. is a Fortune 500® company headquartered in Brentwood, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. Our casual professional atmosphere encourages team members to collaborate, innovate and support our operating companies. Our passion and drive advance the reputation of our operating companies and brands—together, we make a difference.
Location Description
Michael Foods, Inc. located in Elizabeth, New Jersey has a proud history dating back to the founding our our Country. Elizabeth is a great American City.
Responsibilities
POSITION SUMMARY:
The Technician will ensure the proper specifications are met and documented on all incoming
ingredients, packaging materials and outgoing finished products and communicate all findings to the
necessary departments.
This position has the responsibility to comply with safety work rules at all times as well as an obligation to
reinforce safety as a core value. Ensures that all policies, procedures, and activities related to food safety
& quality are followed and complied with uniformly to reduce product and process variability.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Team player who aligns and upholds our values: Teamwork, Accountability, Innovation and
Continuous Improvement and passion for customer and consumers
• Attend and actively participates in safety meetings and trainings
• Always ensure regulatory compliance
• Perform periodic in process quality checks: physical and chemical lab testing, coding, weight,
packaging integrity, labeling, temperature, sensory, document review, data entry, among others,
to verify compliance with customer and MFI’s specifications and all other associated regulations
for all products
• Inspect and sample incoming ingredients to submit for internal lab testing as required
• Assist in drafting, revision, and maintenance of plant standard operating procedures
• Participate in plant food safety/quality inspections, in-process inspections, mock recall, label
audits, and HACCP audits.
• Verify proper set-up of production lines at start-up and shift change: Printer set-up (coding),
packaging materials, labeling, quality limits, etc
• Review sanitary condition of production lines prior to start-up by verifying fillers sterilization limits,
performing ATP (adenosine triphosphate / verify surface cleanliness) and environmental swab,
and follow up sanitation procedures after downtime requiring maintenance activity
• Communicate quality issues across departments and assist in root cause analysis and
implementation of corrective actions where appropriate.
• Perform investigative environmental swabbing of critical production equipment/areas as a
troubleshooting guide.
• Assist in investigations in response to customer concerns or other quality-related deviations to
determine root cause and appropriate corrective actions
• Assist in the management of quality hold activities, including non-conforming product inventories
• Ensure lab equipment, refrigerators, and thermometer, among others, are properly maintained
and calibrated
• Maintain and follow MFI micro sample and shelf-life study programs
• Able to perform tasks including job rotation at all NJ locations
• Act as a liaison all departments
• Perform sample delivery to Micro Lab and to others NJ MFI plants
• Ability to lift at least 50 lbs.
• Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to
all safety policies/procedures and incorporates safety and health in all job duties/tasks
• Adhere to safe work practices, follows GMPs and HACCP guidelines, maintains sanitary
conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained. Report any conditions or practices that
may adversely affect employee safety or food safety/quality to management immediately
• Perform other duties as assigned
Qualifications
EDUCATION AND EXPEREINCE REQUIRED:
• One-year certificate from college or technical school or equivalent combination of education,
training and/or experience
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrate proficiency in critical thinking and problem-solving
• Must be able to work independently and in teams
• Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal skills
• Basic proficiency using computer programs (MS Office) for collecting and analyzing data and
writing procedures and reports
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance
instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence and
speak effectively before groups, customers/vendors, or employees of the organization
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers,
common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and
interpret bar graphs
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or
diagram form. Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized
situations
• Ability to operate specific equipment or tools.
LICENSES, CERTIFICATES AND REGISTRATIONS:
Examples of licenses, certificates, and registrations required:
• Driver’s license
PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS:
• Pallet jack permit preferred, but not required
• Fluency in a language other than English.
WORK ENVIRONMENT & PHYSICAL DEMANDS:
• Workers are required to wear proper PPE such as hair nets, ear plugs, and certain areas require
earmuffs
• Occasional bending, sitting, standing, stooping, pushing, pulling, and reaching over shoulders
• Frequent periods of sitting, standing, walking and repetitive hand movement
• Exposure to changes in temperature and humidity
• Able to lift up to 50 lbs.
• Ability to ascend and descend stairs
• Manufacturing plant is a large, open floor. Some areas have loud machineries, and some areas
are wet.