QC Technician

Quality Control (QC) Technician

Wilkes-Barre, PA |1st shift and 2nd Shift
3 Little Pigs – House of Bricks

Compensation: $22.00 - $26.00 per hour, based on skills and experience.

About the Role

As a QC Technician, you will help protect the quality, safety, and integrity of our products throughout the manufacturing process.

We are looking for a QC Technician to join our Quality & Food Safety team at our Three Little Pigs – House of Bricks facility in Wilkes-Barre, PA.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is detail-oriented, safety-minded, and passionate about food quality and wants to grow within a structured technical career path.

What You’ll Do

Monitor Product Quality

• Perform routine in-process quality and food safety checks throughout assigned production areas.
• Verify product weights, temperatures, labels, packaging, coding, and other established specifications.
• Identify, document, communicate, and escalate out-of-specification conditions and process deviations.

Maintain Accurate Quality Records

• Complete required quality documentation and hourly shift logs accurately and on time.
• Maintain records that are complete, legible, accurate, timely, and traceable.
• Identify and report missing or incomplete documentation.

Support Food Safety & Compliance

• Monitor compliance with USDA, SQF, HACCP, GMP, allergen control, sanitation, and applicable food safety requirements.
• Verify required preventive controls, critical limits, and quality checks within assigned responsibilities.
• Promptly escalate food safety, regulatory, sanitation, or product-hold concerns.

Inspect, Sample & Test

• Collect product samples and perform routine inspections and testing using approved methods and equipment.
• Support the identification, segregation, and documentation of nonconforming or potentially affected product.
• Maintain sample, testing, and inspection records.

Partner Across the Operation

• Work closely with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Quality teams.
• Support investigations, corrective actions, verification activities, and continuous improvement.
• Maintain organized quality work areas, records, tools, and testing equipment.

What We’re Looking For

Education and Experience

• High School Diploma or GED required.
• Previous experience in quality control, food manufacturing, laboratory, production, or a related environment preferred.
• Experience in a USDA-regulated food manufacturing facility is a plus.

Knowledge & Skills

We're looking for someone who:

• Understands or is willing to learn GMPs, HACCP, allergen control, sanitation, food safety, and quality principles.
• Can accurately perform measurements, inspections, sampling, and basic calculations.
• Can read and follow product specifications, quality standards, and SOPs.
• Has strong attention to detail and can recognize and communicate deviations.
• Demonstrates strong communication, teamwork, organization, and problem-solving skills.
• Is comfortable using computers for data entry and quality documentation.
• Takes ownership and understands the importance of accurate records and timely escalation.

What Success Looks Like

In this role, success means you:

✔ Complete required quality checks and hourly logs accurately and on time.
✔ Recognize and promptly escalate quality and food safety concerns.
✔ Maintain complete, accurate, and traceable records.
✔ Help ensure products meet established quality and food safety specifications.
✔ Communicate effectively with Production and other departments.
✔ Follow GMP, HACCP, sanitation, allergen, and food safety requirements.
✔ Maintain safe, organized, and compliant work practices.
✔ Take ownership and follow through on responsibilities.
✔ Demonstrate Village Gourmet's Core Values every day.

Join Village Gourmet and become part of a team where your work directly helps protect our people, our products, and our customers.

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