Lactalis North America is currently seeking candidates to join our Quality team in Nampa, Idaho .

Lactalis Group, the world leader in dairy, is a family-owned business with more than 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals worldwide, committed to providing healthy and delicious dairy products that bring people together every day. At Lactalis, our core values of AMBITION, ENGAGEMENT, and SIMPLICITY are at the heart of everything we do.

If you’re looking for a unique experience with a company that offers strong brands, professional expertise, and a dynamic work environment that champions entrepreneurial spirt, hands-on responsibility and real opportunity for career development, we want to hear from you!

Lactalis North America: inviting you to share with us your STORY, your PASSION, and your EXPERTISE.

From your PASSION to ours

Provide support to plant operations in maintaining operational quality standares. Responsible for the manufacturing of safe, quality food observing all Good Manufacturing Practices and reporting off-standard or abnormal conditions.

From your EXPERTISE to ours

Key responsibilities for this position include:

• Will perform required quality checks for string, fresh mozzarella, shred, sticks, and mozzarella departments. To include such checks as metal detector checks, leaker checks, weight checks, analytical checks, and various other checks to verify product conforms to the product specification.
• When a quality check result does not confirm to requipments, performs necessary rechecks to confirm non-conformance.
• Assist with initiating the hold procedure to control non-conforming product at time of packaging.
• Pull samples from the line per sampling plan for each area to submit for microbiology, chemistry, sensory, sholf likfe, and/or pathogen analysis.
• Complete screen sort checks as defind in sorting procedur and properly tag product needing additional action to bring to conformance. To notify QA Clerk/supervisor/manager of major defecs or patterns of defects in a timely manner.
• Document all quality checks accurately and in a timely manner including explanation of corrective action taken for any non-conforming quality checks.
• Perform attionaly tasks such as pulling air samples, hand swabs, and maintenance of our shelf life library.
• Assist with audits, sensory analysis,

From your STORY to ours

Qualified applicants will contribute the following:

Education

• High School Diploma preferred, Associates Degree a plus.

Experience

• Experience in food manufacturing and USDA preferred.

Specialized Knowledge

• Ability to analyze, read/write reports, manuals and procedures.

Skills / Abilities

• Data entry, and strong problem solving.
• Policy enforcement.
• Basic Math skills (ability to calculate averages).
• Strong communication skills both written and verbal.