Quality Assurance Technician 1 in Charlotte, North Carolina at Plat Du Jour Inc

About Plat du Jour (PDJ)

Plat du Jour (PDJ) is a precision meal platform producing high-quality, ready-to-eat meals and food components in a structured food manufacturing environment. PDJ is built on consistency, operational discipline, and uncompromising food safety standards. This is not a restaurant kitchen — our operation is driven by process control, production precision, and quality assurance at scale.

Position Overview

PDJ is seeking a detail-oriented and highly disciplined Quality Assurance Technician to support food safety, quality control, and compliance across all production departments. This role is responsible for monitoring and enforcing food safety standards throughout the facility, maintaining critical food safety and production logs, ensuring GMP compliance, and supporting product quality consistency across prep, production, packaging, and fulfillment.This individual will work cross-functionally across departments and act as a key operational partner to ensure PDJ's quality standards are consistently upheld. The ideal candidate is highly organized, process-driven, and confident enforcing standards in a fast-paced food manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor daily production activities across prep, cook, packaging, and fulfillment to ensure compliance with food safety and quality standards
• Maintain and verify all food safety documentation including temperature logs, cooling logs, sanitation logs, receiving logs, and production QA records
• Enforce GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) across all departments including hygiene, uniform compliance, handwashing, sanitation, and facility discipline
• Conduct routine floor checks to ensure operational compliance with food safety, sanitation, and quality standards
• Monitor and maintain allergen control procedures including segregation, labeling, handling, and changeover verification
• Verify recipe adherence, portion consistency, plating/packaging specifications, labeling accuracy, and finished product quality
• Ensure all products meet established quality standards for appearance, weight, portioning, packaging integrity, and presentation
• Perform in-process QA checks throughout production and packaging to identify and correct deviations in real time
• Maintain production QA logs and verify compliance with batch specifications and product standards
• Support traceability procedures including lot tracking, product dating, and ingredient documentation
• Verify proper product labeling including allergens, dating, SKU accuracy, and packaging compliance
• Partner with production leadership to identify quality issues, enforce corrective actions, and drive process improvement
• Support internal food safety audits, GMP audits, and readiness for third-party inspections
• Assist in maintaining HACCP documentation, SOP compliance, and food safety program execution
• Escalate food safety, quality, or compliance concerns immediately to leadership

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in quality assurance, food safety, or production compliance in a food manufacturing, commissary, or CPG environment
• Strong understanding of GMPs, HACCP, allergen control, sanitation, and food safety documentation
• Experience maintaining QA logs, production records, and compliance documentation
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to identify inconsistencies and enforce standards in real time
• Comfortable working cross-functionally across multiple departments and production environments
• Strong communication skills with the ability to enforce standards clearly and professionally
• Highly organized, process-oriented, and confident in a fast-paced production setting
• Knowledge of FDA / USDA food safety standards preferred
• HACCP certification or food safety certification preferred

Physical Requirements

• Ability to stand and walk for extended periods of time across multiple departments
• Ability to lift and carry up to 25 lbs
• Ability to bend, reach, inspect, and move throughout production and storage areas
• Comfortable working in hot, cold, and fast-paced production environments