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Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

QA Technician Nights 3rd Shift

Inspection & TestConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeCarson City, NV, USANo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • At least 1 year of experience in a Quality Assurance or food safety role within a manufacturing facility.
  • Knowledge of food quality standards and procedures.
  • Attention to detail and logical thinking.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor quality assurance and food safety activities, recommend improvements, and carry out corrections to improve Quality departmental functions.
  • Perform related duties and provide support to Quality Assurance Management.
  • Contribute information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identify and resolve problems; complete audits; determine system improvements; and implement changes.
  • Perform tests at specified production stages and test products for qualities such as temperature, defects, and code dates; record results; and review records and reports for accuracy and completion.
  • Evaluate data and write reports to validate standards or indicate deviations from standards.
  • Recommend modifications to quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within equipment capability.
  • Complete assigned special projects and work with the project team to resolve problems by examining and evaluating data and selecting corrective steps.
  • Analyze incoming dry goods for production and verify specifications before startup and throughout production processes.
  • Solve quality issues with production and other teams and document key metrics for data analysis.
  • Maintain calibration and logs for laboratory instruments and prepare laboratory equipment and solutions.
  • Communicate directly with operators and production personnel.
  • Analyze and sample production samples and collect retention samples on a shift basis.

About the Company

Mars

Global confectionery, food, and petcare company

Mars makes confectionery, food, and petcare products and also operates pet health services through networks like Banfield, VCA, BluePearl, and Royal Canin. Its products are marketed under familiar brands such as M&M’s, Snickers, Milky Way, Skittles, Dove, Orbit, Pedigree, Royal Canin, Whiskas, and Cocoavia, sold globally to consumers and pet owners. The company differs from competitors by combining a broad, diversified portfolio with a global, family-owned structure guided by the Mars Principles (Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency, Freedom), which drives its operations and partnerships. Mars aims to help communities prosper and to grow its business while improving social and environmental outcomes, using its scale to support responsible practices across the world.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$27B
Headquarters
McLean, VA
Founded
1911

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