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Walmart

Sells groceries and essentials in stores and online

Assistant Quality Control Manager - Supply Chain

Validation, Compliance & Quality SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timePottsville, PA, USAIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Agronomy, Food Science, or a related field, or two years of experience in food manufacturing or production quality control or assurance, food safety, or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Build, maintain, and enhance effective internal and external partnerships through integrity, influence, communication, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Identify and address partner needs, educate partners on value creation, and collaborate across teams to solve shared problems.
  • Identify how business strategy changes affect talent and recruiting strategy, advise business-unit leaders on strategic decisions, and proactively propose solutions.
  • Participate in audits of product deliveries and stored products, maintain audit information, and share best practices with leaders and peers.
  • Apply quality-control techniques in food testing and other practices; identify cold-chain deviations and quality problems involving raw materials; and perform quality-control activities to organizational standards.
  • Understand and apply the effects of time and temperature on product quality, and coach personnel on quality-inspection tools and equipment.
  • Monitor food-handling hazards, including cold-chain management and cross-contamination; ensure appropriate personal protective equipment and proper food-handling practices; and maintain sanitary equipment and work areas in accordance with ServSafe standards, policies, laws, and regulations.
  • Analyze business processes, identify alternatives to outdated processes, assess feasibility and relevant financial, cultural, and technological factors, and recommend improvements using advanced technology where appropriate.
  • Address resistance to process improvement among managers, employees, and other groups.
  • Lead discussions with differing viewpoints, present and influence across divisions, and use data and analytics to communicate clear, evidence-based recommendations.
  • Provide timely feedback, act as a trusted advisor to business partners, and use feedback to improve performance.
  • Use data to determine root causes and solve problems; ensure data quality; define benchmarks and quality rules; improve data collection; propose automation; apply data science techniques; and use reports to inform business decisions.
  • Perform receiving, put-away, picking, packing, and shipping activities; translate business requirements for warehouse management system specifications; assist with distribution-center mechanization; analyze warehouse KPIs; and maintain equipment and facilities.
  • Evaluate data-gathering and record-maintenance practices, advise on data collection and documentation, assess audit-data analysis methods, teach others to interpret reports and logs, and implement and oversee record-maintenance procedures.
  • Manage conditioning and ripening of bananas, avocados, pears, and other produce; forecast demand; order and schedule inbound and outbound deliveries; educate distribution-center and store associates on handling; and account for climatic and geographical effects on ripening.
  • Evaluate operational practices, resolve obstacles across organizational functions, advise on responsibilities, design regulatory-awareness programs, facilitate interdepartmental relationships and communications, recommend efficiencies and standard operating procedure documentation, monitor policy adherence, apply regulatory programs, and recommend solutions to legal or regulatory problems.
  • Build trusting relationships, communicate to motivate and influence, develop and recognize talent, and support a culture of belonging and high performance.
  • Maintain ethical conduct and accountability, support company values and sustainability goals, and make decisions using data while balancing customer and business priorities.
  • Drive continuous improvement, adopt new technologies and skills, and support others through change.

Desired Qualifications

  • Data analysis.
  • Fruit ripening experience.

About the Company

Walmart

Sells groceries and essentials in stores and online

Walmart sells groceries, household essentials, clothing, and electronics through stores and online marketplaces for consumers around the world. Its everyday low price model combines large purchasing volumes with distribution networks that move goods to stores and customer homes. Shoppers can browse online, collect orders at a nearby store, or request delivery, while third-party merchants use its marketplace and fulfillment services to reach customers. The group earns revenue from merchandise sales, memberships, advertising, and services, and also operates pharmacies, optical centers, and digital payments businesses. Walmart opened its first discount store in 1962 and is headquartered in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bentonville, AR
Founded
1962

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