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Nature's Bakery

2nd shift Quality Assurance Lead

Carson City , United States

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Oversee quality control processes, ensuring safety and consistency of baked goods while collaborating on quality improvement initiatives with cross-functional teams.

Position: Quality Assurance Lead

Shift: 2nd shift 2:00pm-10:30pm Monday-Friday, with OT when needed

Pay: $24.00 + Shift differential of $1.50 per hour, + bonuses

SUMMARY 

Maintains and improves our product quality standards. Oversees the quality control process, conducts inspections, performs tests, and ensures that our baked goods meet the highest levels of safety, taste, and consistency. Controls and investigates non-conforming products and product related incidents.  In addition, collaborates with cross-functional teams, including production, research and development, and quality assurance, to implement quality improvement initiatives and resolve any quality-related issues that may arise. 

 

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES 

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. 

  • Lead the quality control efforts for our bakery production line, ensuring that all products meet the established quality standards and comply with food safety regulations. 
  • Conduct routine inspections and tests on incoming raw materials, intermediate products, and finished goods when needed to ensure team is supported in activities related to compliance with specifications and quality parameters. 
  • Monitor and enforce proper sanitation and hygiene practices within the production area to maintain a clean and safe work environment. 
  • Analyze and interpret quality data, identifying trends, patterns, and potential areas for improvement. Generate reports and communicate findings to relevant stakeholders. 
  • Collaborate with the production team to develop and implement quality control procedures and work instructions, ensuring they are followed consistently. 
  • Provide guidance and training to production line staff on quality standards, procedures, and best practices. 
  • Investigate customer complaints or internal quality incidents, identify root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions to address them effectively. 
  • Stay up to date with industry trends, regulatory changes, and best practices in quality control and food safety. Make recommendations for continuous improvement. 
  • Work closely with the Quality Assurance team to maintain and improve the effectiveness of the overall quality management system. 
  • Maintain accurate documentation of quality control activities, including inspection reports, test results, and non-conformities. Ensure compliance with record-keeping requirements. 

EEO

We are committed to an inclusive workplace where diversity in all its forms is championed. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and we are an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. 

 

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Nature's Bakery

About Us Since our founding in 2011, Nature’s Bakery has been baking better-for-you snacks to nourish families and enable them to thrive. We believe that the choice to snack healthier should be an easy and desirable one. Today, we are a top 10 granola and snack bar brand, with approximately 600 employees baking soft-baked snacks with real, recognizable, and wholesome ingredients, such as whole grains and sun-ripened fruits. Our marketplace success led us to join forces with KIND to create a health and wellness platform within Mars, Inc. While continuing to operate as a standalone company, we are now part one of the most well-regarded consumer goods company in the world. That independence allows us to remain an agile, insurgent brand committed to our brand purpose and founding. Nature’s Bakery is a fast-growing company with a bright future ahead. We have achieved great things, and there is more opportunity for growth both on the digital and retail shelves, through expanded distribution with existing and new retail customers. To achieve our aspirations, we are expanding our team of growth-minded, nimble, and entrepreneurial individuals who like to roll up their sleeves and get things done. We think like owners, act like operators. So, come join us to create a world of snacking that is both good, and good for you.

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