Quality Assurance Technician
- Location: Chicago (60624)
- Pay $18 - $21/hour | Full-Time
- 1st shift 6am - 3pm
- Food Industry
About Us
Join our growing food-manufacturing team where product safety and quality are our top priorities. We’re seeking a detail-oriented QA Technician to support laboratory and production‐floor QA/QC tasks, ensuring our products meet corporate, regulatory, and kosher standards.
Key Responsibilities
- Perform pre-operational checks, including visual inspections, ATP and allergen swabbing, and coordinating recleaning/sanitizing
- Liaise with sanitation team during pre-op inspections to verify production readiness
- Calibrate and verify laboratory instruments
- Conduct incoming, in-process, and finished-product testing
- Execute facility monitoring per schedule: environmental swabs, temperature logs (coolers/freezers), foamer checks, chemical concentration audits, scale verifications, etc.
- Prep samples for external laboratory testing
- Record production‐process data: water/product temperatures, dumping, desalting, injection, cure brine, cover brine, metal‐detector performance, batch ratios, code dates, labels, weights, packaging materials, and product changeovers
- Maintain daily paperwork and enter results into electronic logs
- Assist in preparing and reviewing Quality SOPs and SSOPs
- Perform other QA‐related duties as assigned
Qualifications
- High school diploma required; some college coursework preferred
- 1–2 years’ QA/QC experience in a food-manufacturing environment preferred
- Able to start as early as 4:00 AM when serving as backup to the pre-op technician
- Fluent English communication skills (verbal & written); bilingual Spanish a plus
- Proficient with Microsoft Office (Excel, Word, Outlook)
- Familiarity with environmental monitoring processes preferred
How To Apply
- Contact: Mike Coleman
- 773-747-7676 Mike.Coleman@axionrecruitment.com
- Job reference number: 2426
- If you would like to find out more, simply click apply.
This position is commutable from: Oak Park, Forest Park, Cicero, Berwyn, Maywood, Elmwood Park, La Grange, Westchester, Brookfield, Skokie, Evanston, Lincolnwood, Oak Lawn, Bridgeview, and Burbank
Relevant Job Title: Maintenance Manager, Maintenance Supervisor, Maintenance Superintendent, Maintenance and Engineering Manager
All applicants must live in the USA and be eligible to work and live in the USA. Please note, our client is unable to offer Sponsorship or Visa support for this role.
Due to the sheer volume of applications, we will only contact successful applications. Therefore, if you have not heard from us within 10 working days, please deem your application as unsuccessful.
Axion Recruitment is working as a recruitment agency in relation to this vacancy.