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Dawn Foods is a global leader in bakery manufacturing and ingredients distribution. As the partner of choice for inspiring bakery success, we help customers grow their business through meaningful partnerships, research-driven insights and innovations, and products and expertise they can depend on. As a family-owned company, our commitments to our people, products, customers, and corporate values, are all part of our recipe for success.
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Why work for Dawn Foods?
PEOPLE. PRODUCTS. CUSTOMERS.
Why should you apply? We invest in you!
- Industry-leading health insurance on Day 1!
- Competitive Pay
- 401(K) + company match
- 10 Paid Company Holidays
- Paid Time Off
- Professional training
- Family-owned business over 100 years in service
- An opportunity for career advancement, working as part of an empowering workforce
Job Purpose and Overview
As a Quality Specialist, you will assist the Quality Manager in planning, coordinating, and implementation of Quality programs. Works to ensure product safety and quality through the use of established systems, HACCP, GMP’s, food safety teams and continuous improvement techniques. Responsible for auditing the products and processes at various points in the areas of production and packaging to ensure adherence to company quality standards. Communicate deviations to management. Assist the Quality Assurance Team with special projects as required.
Shift Schedule:Monday-Friday 5AM - 1:30PM
What will you do as a Quality Assurance Specialist at Dawn Foods?
- Ensures accurate and timely implantation as adherence to corporate Quality policies and programs to ensure the plant food safety and compliance with Dawn Food Products policies, Federal, State, and local laws.
- Supports and promotes the Dawn Circle of Excellence, Mission Statement and Team Dawn.
- Assists the Quality Manager with plant-wide compliance initiatives including FDA Good Manufacturing Practice, personal hygiene, HACCP, and Food Safety policies.
- Supports Quality objectives and helps coordinate objectives with production procedures in cooperation with other managers and supervisors to maximize product reliability and minimize costs.
- Develops and analyzes statistical data and product specifications for Continuous improvement in quality and reliability of finished product.
- Make suggestions for improvements to environmental control practices where needed.
- Plans, promotes, and organizes training activities related to product quality and reliability.
- Establish and maintain good communications with all Dawn Team Members.
What Does It Take to be an Quality Assurance Specialist at Dawn Foods?
Below are the minimum qualifications to be a fit for this job.
- Bachelor's Degree (accredited) or in lieu of degree, High School Diploma or GED (accredited) and two years of relevant work experience.
- Experience in food, beverage and/or pharmaceutical manufacturing.
- Experience in HACCP, FDA, AIB, GMP, and SAP.
- Computer literacy in Microsoft office such as Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams.
- Experience in root cause analysis and developing continuous improvement teams.
Physical Demands & Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Required to use motor coordination with arm, hand, finger, and leg dexterity.
- Required to exert physical effort in handling objects more than 50 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to focus.
- Ability to stand and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.
- Ability to withstand cool and/or cold temperatures.
- Normal setting for this job is plant/office.
- Will be exposed to a physical environment, which involves dirt, odors, noise, weather extremes or similar elements most of the workday.
Note: The level of physical effort may vary from site to site and in some cases be greater or lesser than documented here.
If this sounds like the opportunity that you have been looking for, please click "Apply.”
About Our Benefits
Dawn is proud to employ the top talent in the baking industry, and we reward our people with comprehensive health and well-being coverage, competitive compensation packages, and award-winning benefit offerings. We also help protect your future financial health with a generous 401(k) matching program that provides additional retirement funds and many tools and resources on financial wellness. Dawn encourages professional growth through tuition assistance and educational programs, and we are always searching for ways to improve our industry-leading services and benefits.
Compensation: $63,780 – $98,230
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An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity/gender expression, citizenship status, military or veteran status, genetic information or any other status or condition that is protected by applicable law.
Requisition ID: 35479
