Quality Control Technician II - 1st Shift - Quality

Immediate Hiring for an experienced Quality Control Technican II at Glanbia Performance Nutrition!

About Glanbia

Glanbia is a global nutrition company dedicated to providing better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. Using pure and clean ingredients such as milk, whey, and grains, Glanbia creates high‑quality nutritional ingredients and branded consumer products for customers and consumers worldwide.

Glanbia Performance Nutrition (GPN), headquartered in Downers Grove, Illinois, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Glanbia. Our brand portfolio includes Optimum Nutrition, BSN, Isopure, Think!, Nutramino, Body & Fit, LevlUp, Amazing Grass, and SlimFast. We manufacture and market a full range of performance and lifestyle nutrition products sold across retail, online, gyms, and global markets.

GPN operates state-of-the-art facilities with more than 2,500 employees worldwide and is part of Glanbia plc, a global nutrition group with over 6,000 employees in 34 countries.

Compensation and Benefits

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. The hourly rate for Illinois based employees for this role is $23.00/hour.

Benefits Include: Medical, Dental, Vision, Prescription Drug Coverage, FSA, HSA, Life & Disability Insurance, 19 Days Paid Time Off and 6% 401K match!

Schedule

1st Shift: 6:00am-2:30pm M-F

General Summary

Quality Technicians are responsible for managing and enforcing quality programs & procedures, and company established policies regarding the finished good manufacturing process and storage. Quality control technicians review, verify and test products across the three stages of production (incoming, in-process, and final) to ensure quality and food safety levels are met. 

Essential Functions

• Ensure compliance to federal and state laws, as well as Glanbia standards and specifications.
• Maintain calibration of quality control equipment.     
• Auditing the assigned area, and communicate quality or compliance concerns with urgency
• Perform inspections across all stages of productions such as incoming raw materials and packaging, in-process, final inspection, and returns to ensure products meet specifications.
• Perform sensory and quality evaluations on in-process and finished product.      
• Support Distribution Centers and Warehouses process in regards to Finished Goods inspections, SAP transactions and releases.
• Data entry in Logs pertaining to Quality Metrics.      
• Perform SAP transactions for releases, holds, reworks and High Jump where applicable, and enter results into a computerized system, track and report results (GP/SAP/MS Office programs).
• Perform cleaning verifications using ATP swabs and visual inspections to approve manufacturing rooms prior to production.
• Records verification to ensure all production and quality documents are accurately completed in real-time during manufacturing process.
• Complete written process, SOPs, and SSOPs deviations. 
• Complete Simple Root Cause Investigations, Validations, CAPA, Environmental Control Program ECA, Customer Complaints Investigations and Document Control
• Prepare and/or collect samples for laboratory testing for Raw Material receipts and Finished Product investigations.
• Assist or back-up QA Supervisors weekly assignments.
• Flexibility to perform other duties as assigned.

Decision Making/Problem Solving

• Interpret decision charts for potential non-conformances.
• Evaluate cleaning practices related to facility and/or equipment and decide if additional cleaning is needed to meet the documented requirements.
• Review products to ensure compliance to the specification.

Education

• Minimum- High School or GED Certifications

Experience

• At least 3 or more years’ experience
• Food or pharmaceutical quality experience preferred

Other Experience

• Understand GMP/Food Safety Requirements
• Excellent organizational skills
• Demonstrated ability to analyze and interpret information
• Computer Skills / MS Office / SAP.

Physical Demands

• Occasional sitting
• Frequent standing, walking, bending/stooping

Lifting Demands

• Lift 25 lbs from 6 inches to waist level x 5 reps

Disclaimer

This job description is not intended, nor should it be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, skills, or working conditions associated with the particular job. It is intended only to be a general description of the essential functions common to positions of this type.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. 

At Glanbia our culture will celebrate individuality, knowing that together we are more.