Quality Assurance Laboratory Technician at Mullins Cheese Inc – Mosinee, Wisconsin

Position Summary:
Monitor, act upon, and assist others with internal and external audits, customer feedback, process performance, product conformance, preventive and correction actions, and changes that affect the quality and business management systems. Assist with putting in place tests to determine quality of raw materials, work-in-process, and finished products. Control process and product performance through the management of tests, documentation of procedures, and education and training of employees.

Essential Job Functions:
•Quality, Quality, Quality!
•Perform tests on product using current equipment and following standard methods
•Maintain laboratory records
•Comply with all processes and procedures of the BRC to assure safe, quality product
•Ensure the availability of resources and information necessary to support the operation, monitoring, and continual improvement of quality system processes
•Determine the monitoring and measurement to be undertaken to provide evidence of conformity to product specifications
•Manage the processes involved with the calibration of measuring and monitoring devices used to ensure conformity of product specifications
•Work with others to determine the necessary competence for personnel performing work affecting product quality
•Maintain appropriate records of education, training, skills and experience
•Assist with communication regarding the effectiveness of the quality management system via meetings, corrective and preventive actions and project teams

Non-essential Job Functions:
Other duties as required or directed will occasionally arise.

Schedule Requirements
Normal: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday
Required if needed to complete any essential Job Function: Saturday and Sunday

Minimum Qualifications
•Willing and Able to perform all job essential functions with or without accommodation
•Willing and Able to be exposed to/perform all physical and environmental factors
•Education: Technical/Associates Degree in Dairy/Food Science or equivalent subject
•Experience: 1-3 years of dairy related position

Preferred Qualifications
•Willing and Able to perform all job essential functions with or without accommodation
•Willing and Able to be exposed to/perform all physical and environmental factors
•Certifications: Forklift Certification
•Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Dairy/Food Science or equivalent subject
•Experience: 4-7 years of dairy related position, including training in HACCP

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Knowledge:
•Computers and Electronics — Knowledge of computer software and other standard office electronics.
•Engineering and Technology — Knowledge of the practical application of engineering science and technology. This includes applying principles, techniques, procedures, and equipment to the design and production of various goods and services.
Skills:
•Quality Control Analysis — Conducting tests and inspections of products, services, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
•Active Learning — Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.
•Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
•Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.

Abilities:
•Deductive Reasoning — The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense.
•Inductive Reasoning — The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events).
•Problem Sensitivity — The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing there is a problem.
•Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).

Equipment Used:
General office equipment, software programs involving use of electronic databases, assorted measuring devices, and other items including having knowledge of necessary resources needed to aid in performing their job to find information as needed.

Benefits
Being a family owned company, Mullins Cheese encourages the employees to have a work- life balance along with promoting health and wellness programs. Mullins Cheese invests in these programs:
Health Clinic Access for $0 cost to employees
Vacation pay
Paid Time Off (PTO) - Available immediately upon hire
Employee discount at the Mullins Cheese retail store
Discounted memberships to Crystal Training Facility (CTI)
YMCA membership contributions for employees and family members
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Health Insurance, HSA, Vision Insurance, and Dental Insurance
Wellness Program
401K plan contributions and Profit Sharing
Life AD&D, Long Term and Short Term Disability Insurance

Wage:
Starting at $20.50. Wage Open based upon experience
$3 shift premium from 6pm-6am, all day on Saturdays
1.5x pay over 40 hours