Quality Technician - 2nd & 3rd shift
Pures Food Specialties LLCIllinois, United States
Posted March 9, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
Pures Food Specialties LLC is a snack food manufacturer that produces and packages snack products for leading brands worldwide. The company operates a production facility in Northlake, IL, maintaining high quality standards and efficient manufacturing processes to support premium food brands.
Job Description
The Quality Assurance (QA) Technician has the primary responsibility for protecting the food by conducting food safety and quality sampling, testing, and documentation to meet all regulatory, customer and Pures Foods requirements. The QA Technician is responsible for conducting food safety and quality assurance procedures to ensure Pures Food Specialties, LLC is in compliance with best practices for food safety and quality.
Requirements
- Meet all applicable food regulations (international, national, state, and local)
- Sample, test, and document food safety and quality procedures, records, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)
- Maintain the safety, legality, and quality of each food and the processes used in their manufacture
- Meet and exceed customer requirements
- Reduce customer/consumer complaints for foods manufactured on site
- Report food safety and quality issues to their supervisor
- Hold product based on food safety or quality non-conformance
- Participate in daily food evaluation to identify possible defects
- Participate in physical bakery inspections on a weekly basis on each area
- Select food items for analysis at specified stages in the production process for evaluating compliance to specification
- Use instrumentation/measuring devices such as thermometers, metal detectors, X-ray devices, calculators, scales, gauges, calipers, rulers, moisture analyzers, and ovens
- Assure materials are received from approved suppliers and conduct raw material supplier performance monitoring
- Participate in the Environmental Monitoring Programs (i.e., collecting swab samples, using the ATP system)
- Print finished food case labels (as appropriate to the bakery or kitchen)
- Communicate food safety/QA issues with Production Supervisors and QA Technicians at shift change
Benefits
- Healthcare coverage including medical, dental, and vision
- 401k Plan
- Short term disability available
- Paid holidays, vacation, and paid sick leave
