QA Line Inspector - 1st shift

Title:  QA Line Inspector

Department: Quality

Location: Jackson, GA

Shift:  1st shift

Reports to:  Quality Team Lead

Position Summary:

The line inspector is a key position within our manufacturing plants and supports our production team leads as they drive production to the highest safety, quality and efficiency standards.  This position is exposed to multiple refrigerated areas within production.  Position responsible for performing finished goods checks.

What if your job had a real impact? 

By joining Bonduelle, the world leader in ready-to-use plant-based food, you are deciding to make a positive and sustainable impact on yourself, others and the planet. You will play an active part in our mission: "inspire the transition toward a plant-based diet to contribute to people's well being and planet health". Bonduelle is a family-run company of 14,600 people which provides over 100 countries with vegetables. 

Well established in the United States, our business unit includes 4 production facilities with more than 3,200 associates. We process fresh vegetables, salads and meal solutions with our own brands: Ready Pac Foods® and Bistro®.

Join us at Bonduelle to start an adventure where people come first and contribute to a better future through plant-based food!

Bonduelle Fresh Americas is a Certified B Corp for a better life. Bonduelle chose B Corporation because of its comprehensive and rigorous standards and its ability to measure a company’s governance as well as worker, community, and environmental impact.We aim to make a positive impact on People, Planet and Food, as seen in our global B!Pact objectives. B Corp certification validates our positive impact and tells the world we are part of a community using business as a force for good.

Key Responsibilities:

• Follows GMP/PPE, Safety guidelines
• Follow & maintain HACCP & Sanitation guidelines & processes
• Understands yield standards
• Works safely around moving equipment & conveyors in wet environment
• Completes product change over tasks
• Weigh bowls using scales
• Scheduling Adherence
• Maintain a safe work environment
• Conducts the following checks (bowl label, code dates, lot verification, composition, gas, seal, temperature)
• Comply with SQF Regulatory Programs
• Maintains a clean work area
• Machine set-up and operation (computer, gas machine, fish tanks)
• Basic machine troubleshooting
• Conduct metal detector verifications
• Verifies product meets quality standards for size and color without having foreign objects or defects
• Perform equipment adjustments, equipment center lining, and pre-flight start up inspections.
• Four equipment related skills for operators:   Ability to detect abnormalities, ability to correct abnormalities and restore functioning,  ability to set optimum equipment conditions, ability to maintain optimal equipment conditions
• Audits production lines for USDA compliance
• Follow & enforce the 5S Methodology
• Maintain tools & equipment as delimited by the 5S marking

Minimum Qualifications:

• Ability to read, write and speak English; comprehension of basic math.
• Willingness and flexibility to work in a cold, wet, fast-paced, 24 hour plant environment.
• Comprehension of basic math
• Ability to work independently and in a fast paced team environment.
• GED/High School Diploma.
• Ability to multitask
• Ability to understand plant KPIs (production, quality & safety)

Physical Work Envioronment / Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the associate will be required to perform repetitive movements (i.e., scooping condiments into salad bowls). The associate regularly works near morning mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to extreme cold. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.

• Ability to sit or stand for extended periods.
• Ability to move about within a fast paced environment in/outside of facility, and traverse between maintenance shop & production floor.
• Ability to frequestnly move, push or carry items up to 50 lbs.
• Exposed to a cold & wet environment of 34 degrees. 
• Ability to work in outdoor weather conditions.
• Must be able to exchange accurate information through freequent 
• Must be able to detect, identify, inspect, observe and assess surroundings.