Smithfield Foods is looking to maintain the highest standards of food safety by ensuring HACCP and USDA regulations are consistently followed in their food processing operations.
Requirements
- Technical Skills & Documentation: ability to follow written and verbal directions, create and interpret technical documents (quality specs, safety rules, manuals), use monitoring equipment, and work with software like spreadsheets, presentations, and word processing.
- Quality Assurance & Regulatory Knowledge: strong understanding of quality assurance principles, food science, meat processing, and USDA regulations.
- Ability to complete required applicable forms in English, which requires the ability to read and write in English.
- Ability to use monitoring equipment
- Ability to work with software like spreadsheets, presentations, and word processing
- Knowledge of HACCP and USDA regulations
- Ability to interpret customer specifications
Responsibilities
- Disease, Contamination & Compliance: recognize and identify diseases, consumer concerns, and contamination in pork/swine, ensuring compliance with Federal Regulations, Directives, and Guidelines.
- Product Monitoring & Documentation: ensure products meet RTC pork definitions, communicate with helpers to use the correct tags/markings, and verify inspection documentation with USDA officials and Plant Management.
- Collaboration & Problem-Solving: work with other departments to implement procedure changes, address non-compliance issues, and apply technical knowledge to prevent and resolve product/process failures.
- Quality Control & Continuous Improvement: interpret customer specifications, apply subjective quality decisions (appearance, texture, etc.), and continuously improve product quality through attention to processes and ongoing improvements.
- Conduct routine sanitation checks
- Conduct critical inspections of live hogs, heads, carcasses, and viscera
- Identify and control potential food safety hazards related to pathological conditions and contamination during processing
Other
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED), required
- Ability to lift and/or move up to 50 pounds
- Ability to perform repetitive tasks and stand for prolonged period of time
- Ability to work in a fast-paced environment, fostering positive relationships and a team-oriented atmosphere
- Strong written and verbal communication skills for reporting and addressing inquiries from customers or regulatory agencies
