Lab Technician- Quality Control

Quality Control Technician - Food Ingredients

Job Description

This role involves performing a broad range of quality testing on food ingredient products, including sensory evaluations, analytical, chemical, and physical tests for finished goods and incoming ingredients. You will work with sweet products such as inclusions for ice cream, beverage mixes, and vitamins. The position involves ensuring compliance with current specifications through testing and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Conduct quality testing on food ingredient products, including sensory, analytical, chemical, and physical tests.
• Perform lab equipment calibrations and maintenance according to set procedures.
• Identify and investigate non-conformance issues and provide solutions.
• Assist with complaint investigations and review/write SOPs for the laboratory.
• Perform daily GMP inspections, in-plant process, and internal audits, including environmental compliance swabbing.
• Composite swab samples for outside micro testing.
• Document test results in LIMS and internal databases, label incoming ingredients, and release batches in the system.
• Adhere to all quality and food safety standards.

Essential Skills

• High School Diploma and 1-2 years of experience in a quality or laboratory capacity in a manufacturing environment is preferred.
• BS Degree in Sciences with lab coursework.
• Understanding of basic laboratory procedures through schooling or experience.
• Proficiency in quality control, GMP, and quality assurance.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

• Ability to work independently with strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Adaptable and flexible with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Able to lift 25+ pounds and willing to work in varying temperature and humidity conditions.
• No known food allergies (except peanut and fish/shellfish) or color blindness.

Work Environment

You will work in a lab/test kitchen environment with a small group of technicians. The lab has both wet and dry sides, and many products are powdered and mixed with dairy. Flexibility is required, with potential for additional hours.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of St Charles, MO.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $21.00 - $21.55/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: • Medical, dental & vision • Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital • 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available • Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) • Short and long-term disability • Health Spending Account (HSA) • Transportation benefits • Employee Assistance Program • Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in St Charles,MO.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Sep 15, 2026.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing process due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

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