Smithfield Foods is looking for motivated individuals to join their Food Safety & Quality Assurance team to ensure their products meet the highest standards, enforce regulations, and improve processes.
Requirements
- Demonstrates knowledge of quality assurance principles, food science, meat processing, and USDA regulations, ensuring compliance with company and industry standards.
- Capable of creating, interpreting, and maintaining technical documents, reports, and manuals, with effective written and verbal communication across teams and stakeholders.
- Experienced in using monitoring equipment, analyzing data, and responding to regulatory or customer inquiries with sound, evidence-based decisions.
- Proficient in office software and able to interpret and follow instructions in various formats, including written, oral, and visual.
Responsibilities
- You conduct routine inspections — including process, metal detection, cooking, and chilling — to ensure products meet all quality standards.
- You identify and act on out-of-spec products, interpret customer specs, and collaborate with teams to correct issues quickly.
- You drive continuous improvement by addressing deficiencies, identifying root causes of failures, and supporting QA programs.
- You help develop and enforce HACCP programs, monitor critical control points, and ensure food safety protocols are followed throughout the production process.
- You ensure USDA regulatory requirements are met, assist with food safety documentation updates, and perform pre-op sanitation checks — following up to guarantee proper cleaning and sampling procedures.
- You report food safety issues, recommend corrective actions, and support plant training on deficiencies.
- In the absence of key personnel, you're prepared to step in or delegate responsibilities as needed.
Other
- High school diploma or general education degree (GED), required.
- For internal candidates with 4+ years of experience with the company, the Company has the discretion to waive educational requirements.
- Must have the ability to complete required forms in English, which requires the ability to read and write in English.
- Associate’s degree, preferred
- Effectively collaborates with others in a fast-paced, dynamic environment while maintaining a respectful, approachable, and team-oriented attitude to foster strong working relationships and a positive workplace culture.
