JobsUSAFood Safety & Quality Assurance Technologist - 2nd Shift
Company : Smithfield Foods
Location : Sioux City, IA, 51101
Posted Date : 15 September 2025
Job Details
Quality Assurance Specialist
A great job-and a great future-awaits you at Smithfield Foods. We are an American food company with a leading position in packaged meats and fresh pork products. We're looking for motivated people who want to join our team and grow lasting and meaningful careers with us.
As part of our Food Safety & Quality Assurance team, you will play an important role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards. You will perform routine sanitation checks, enforce HACCP and USDA regulations, and use your technical expertise to track products from start to finish identifying issues and driving corrective actions when needed.
You will be responsible for monitoring quality in your area, from grading products and documenting results to overseeing sanitation, temperatures, GMPs, and more. Working closely with production teams, you'll help resolve issues, investigate root causes, and improve processes. You'll also support quality programs through training and performance assessment.
Your attention to detail ensures our brands from Smithfield to Nathan's Famous are delivered safely and with confidence.
What You'll Do:
- Quality Verification: You conduct routine inspections including process, metal detection, cooking, and chilling to ensure products meet all quality standards. You identify and act on out-of-spec products, interpret customer specs, and collaborate with teams to correct issues quickly.
- Quality Improvement: You drive continuous improvement by addressing deficiencies, identifying root causes of failures, and supporting QA programs. This includes training, spec reviews, and collaborating on initiatives to enhance product quality and reduce waste.
- Food Safety & HACCP Compliance: You help develop and enforce HACCP programs, monitor critical control points, and ensure food safety protocols are followed throughout the production process.
- Regulatory & Sanitation Oversight: You ensure USDA regulatory requirements are met, assist with food safety documentation updates, and perform pre-op sanitation checks following up to guarantee proper cleaning and sampling procedures.
- Communication & Training: You report food safety issues, recommend corrective actions, and support plant training on deficiencies. In the absence of key personnel, you're prepared to step in or delegate responsibilities as needed.
What We're Seeking:
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED), required.
- For internal candidates with 4+ years of experience with the company, the Company has the discretion to waive educational requirements.
- Must have the ability to complete required forms in English, which requires the ability to read and write in English.
- Demonstrates knowledge of quality assurance principles, food science, meat processing, and USDA regulations, ensuring compliance with company and industry standards.
- Capable of creating, interpreting, and maintaining technical documents, reports, and manuals, with effective written and verbal communication across teams and stakeholders.
- Experienced in using monitoring equipment, analyzing data, and responding to regulatory or customer inquiries with sound, evidence-based decisions.
- Proficient in office software and able to interpret and follow instructions in various formats, including written, oral, and visual.
Other Skills That Make You Stand Out:
- Associate's degree, preferred
- Effectively collaborates with others in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining a respectful, approachable, and team-oriented attitude to foster strong working relationships and a positive workplace culture.
Physical Demands & Work Environment:
- Office and plant setting. The plant environment will include wet or humid conditions (non-weather related), extreme cold and heat (non-weather related), working near moving mechanical parts, exposure to fumes or airborne particles, and chemicals.
- Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but can be loud when in the production area.
- Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Specific vision includes close vision, distance vision, and ability to adjust focus.
- Exposed to temperatures ranging from 30 - 80 degrees, working in warm and cold area simultaneously.
- Frequently required to stand for prolonged times; walk; use hands to handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and talk or hear.
Relocation Package Available: Yes
EEO Information: Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law. If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.
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