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Quality Assurance Coordinator

Kelly Services
  • Melrose, MN
    1 day ago
    Kelly Services

    Job Description

    Job Description

    Job Description
    The Land O’Lakes Supply Chain & Operations division is a strategic leader across business units, driving operational excellence, quality, and innovation. Our team partners with Finance, Marketing, and Human Resources to deliver value for business units, members, and customers.

    The Operations Quality Assurance Specialist works in close liaison with operations to ensure finished products consistently meet customer specifications by upholding all standards of the Land O’Lakes Quality Management System.
    Key Responsibilities
    • Establish, supervise, and monitor quality assurance programs (HACCP, GMPs, BRC, EQMS standards, regulatory requirements)
    • Provide quality and food safety support for both quality and production departments
    • Assist management in maintaining quality systems
    • Track corrective actions and monitor Product Safety Quality Events
    • Prep and document audit materials and programs
    • Perform positive release and manage external warehouse inventory
    • Complete HACCP record reviews and SharePoint updates
    • Assist with lab calibrations and support quality trainings
    • Act as backup to Quality Supervisor to support lab technicians
    • Track non-conforming/downgrade cheese and manage specification deviations
    • Provide input on whey powder specifications and manage cheese customer samples
    • Document Control Program management
    • Coordinate lot track & trace exercises
    • Assist with Environmental Monitoring Program & manage GMP audit program
    • Complete other duties as assigned

    Physical Demands & Work Environment
    • Occasional walking, sitting, handling, reaching, and climbing stairs/ladders
    • Ability to lift/move up to 15 lbs
    • Visual requirements: Close, distance, color, peripheral, depth perception, able to adjust focus
    • Exposed to fluctuating temperatures and weather conditions
    • Occasionally loud environments requiring ear plugs
    • Personal protective equipment required in manufacturing areas

    Minimum Qualifications
    • Associates degree or higher required (Preferably in Food Science, Dairy Science, or related field)
    • Strong quality assurance and/or dairy science background
    • Auditing skills and understanding of corrective/preventive actions
    • Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices
    • Effective written and verbal communication skills
    • Strong organizational and prioritization abilities
    • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision

    Preferred Qualifications
    • Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Dairy Science, or comparable field
    • Effective teaching, influencing, and troubleshooting skills
    • Positive attitude, strong work ethic, decisiveness, and high initiative
    • Experience with document control program management

    As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

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    About Kelly

    Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life-just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

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    Numbers & Facts

    LocationMelrose, MN
    IndustryStaffing/Employment Agencies
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Year Founded1946
    Websitehttps://www.mykelly.com/

    About Company

    Finding great work for top talent. 

    Kelly helps companies recruit and manage skilled workers and helps job seekers find great work in industries such as accounting and finance, education, engineering, government, manufacturing and production, technology, and more.

    Since inventing the staffing industry in 1946, we’ve become experts in the many specialties and local and global markets we serve. With a network of suppliers and partners around the world, we connect 450,000+ people with work every year. We ensure companies have the people they need, when and where they’re needed most.

     

    Skills

    • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
    • Auditingunmatched
    • Communication Skillsunmatched
    • Corrective Actionunmatched
    • Dairy Scienceunmatched
    • Depth Perceptionunmatched
    • Document Controlunmatched
    • Environmental Monitoringunmatched
    • Environmental Workunmatched
    • Establish Prioritiesunmatched
    • Federal Governmentunmatched
    • Financeunmatched
    • Food Safetyunmatched
    • Food Scienceunmatched
    • GMP (Good Manufacturing Practices)unmatched
    • Human Resourcesunmatched
    • Identify Issuesunmatched
    • Inventory Managementunmatched
    • Laboratoryunmatched
    • Manufacturingunmatched
    • Marketingunmatched
    • Material Auditunmatched
    • Microsoft SharePointunmatched
    • Organizational Skillsunmatched
    • Physical Demandsunmatched
    • Presentation/Verbal Skillsunmatched
    • Product Safetyunmatched
    • Project/Program Managementunmatched
    • Quality Assuranceunmatched
    • Quality Managementunmatched
    • Quality Monitoringunmatched
    • Regulatory Requirementsunmatched
    • Requirements Managementunmatched
    • Supply Chain Operationsunmatched
    • Systems Administration/Managementunmatched
    • Systems Maintenanceunmatched
    • Training/Teachingunmatched
    • Warehousingunmatched
    • Writing Skillsunmatched

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