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Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

WI Manawa Receiving & Bldg 30

Job Type:

Quality Assurance

Job Posting Title:

QA Tech III - Projects, 1st Shift

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of over 20 production facilities and several corporate offices across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work and develop their careers, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities, and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

Named one of America’s Best Large Employers by Forbes Magazine, we are proud to live by a strong set of values and strive to "Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." Guided by our values— Own It, Commit to Excellence, Be Agile, Speak Up, and Better Together. We are a diverse team driven by integrity, accountability, and a commitment to exceptional results. We embrace change, prioritize continuous learning, and foster collaboration, transparency, and healthy debate. Together, we set each other up for success to achieve enterprise-wide goals.

What You Gain:

• Competitive compensation and benefits program!

• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs! Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities!

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth.

• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs.

Job Description:

QA Project Technician

A Level 3 Projects Technician must have at least one year of QA experience.

➢ Primary job duties

o Perform training including new hire orientation training and wash inspection certification

o Lead new projects

o Perform audits against GFSI standards, RSPO standards, Rain Forrest Alliance Standards, internal programs, customer standards, and GMP audits.

o Consumer complaints- Perform detailed investigations, prepare report of investigation to QA Manager, monthly compliant report for DCI boards, and complaint trending

o Audits- GFSI, QA Program, QA Focus, and QI Focus

o Food Safety and Food Defense facilitator backup, meeting preparation, and meeting follow-ups

o Data trending for Food Safety Plan- Food Safety tracking, hold, complaint data, wash inspection, environmental, and sanitation effectiveness data.

o Regulatory, Certification, and Customer audit preparation and assistance during audit.

o Organic verification and annual assistant for annual organic certification audit

o QA Document Control

o Coordination of retention pallet trashing and consuming. This may require PIV certification.

o Food Safety Inspections

o Trace Team Member- Scheduling trace to ensure each type of trace is completed annually, training new members, and reporting trace results to an auditor during an audit

o Creating, updating, and performing quality training as needed- Include toolbox talks, classroom, and Computer based trainings

o Other job duties may include calibration/verification tracking, allergen validation, and other new QA tasks as assigned

o May require off shift work on a regular basis to complete requirements of some job duties

o Tracking of data; for example: complaints, wash inspection results, food safety tracker

o Back up for Assistant Microbiology Technician

o Fill in for call ins/PSST/Vacation

All QA Tech Level 3 must be knowledgeable of the following tasks:

Test and qualify ingredients, premixes, blends and finished products such as:

o Testing samples, familiarize self with taste/color, use salt meter for salt analysis, test for pH, density, moisture, absorption, fruit count, peroxidase, cloudiness, granulation, leakage, dissolvability, enrichment, brew test, O2 test, perform food safety tests, perform food safety device checks (metal detector, magnet, screen and sifter overs), check graphics, labels, cartons, cases, UPC matches again process order, check seals, correct drop weights, check codes for proper characters, check codes against process order, check for scorched particles, perform scale weigh check, equipment calibrations and drop tests. Perform chemical storage audits, and file COA.

➢ Use and be familiar with weight charts, QA record sheets, product specification PDM, audit sheets, SSOP and wash reports, pre-operation check off log, packaging material usage, food safety, glass audits and recycle procedure

o Follow through on wash inspections to include sanitation effectiveness swabbing

o Perform product change over checks

➢ Maintain retention samples for future reference when needed

o Collect proper amount of customer samples (may vary per customer) and ensure samples are correct or perfect. Record samples per customer guidelines and ship as necessary.

➢ Maintain or resolve temperature and humidity controls/issues

➢ Maintain controls

➢ Work with product holds

Your TreeHouse Foods Career is Just a Click Away!

Click on the “Apply” button or go directly to www.treehousefoods.com/careers to let us know you’re ready to join our team!

At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com

TreeHouse Use Only: #IND1

TreeHouse Foods is a private label food and beverage leader focused on customer brands and custom products. When customers partner with TreeHouse they can expect access to an industry-leading portfolio, strategic vision, on-trend innovation and insights, world-class supply chain, operational excellence and flexibility, collaborative approaches, and dedicated customer service.

Our strategy is to be the leading supplier of private label food and beverage products by providing the best balance of quality and cost to our customers. We engage with retail grocery, food away from home, and industrial and export customers, including most of the leading grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the United States and Canada. Our portfolio includes a variety of shelf-stable, refrigerated, and snack products.

Customers can expect comprehensive flavor profiles including natural, organic, and preservative-free ingredients in many categories and packaging formats.TreeHouse Foods is best known for food and beverages produced by our two largest businesses Bay Valley Foods, LLC (including E.D. Smith and Sturm Foods) and TreeHouse Private Brands. With more than 10,000 employees in over 35 plants across the United States, Canada, and Italy, TreeHouse Foods is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Disability Assistance and EEO Considerations: At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com

To all recruitment agencies: TreeHouse Foods does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Treehouse Foods employees, or any company location(s). TreeHouse Foods is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.