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Quality Assurance Technician

Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom
Chaska, MN Full Time
POSTED ON 4/25/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/23/2025
Kelly Science & Clinical has an Immediate opening for a Quality Assurance Technician – 3rd Shift (Food Division) for our growing client near Minneapolis, MN

Sunday – Thursday | 9:00 PM – 5:30 AM

$21.00 – $23.00 per hour, plus a $3.00/hour shift differential, dependent upon level of experience

Kelly Science & Clinical is currently seeking an experienced Quality Assurance Technician to join our client’s Food Division on 3rd shift. This critical role ensures the safety, quality, and regulatory compliance of our client’s products and processes in alignment with internal standards and external regulatory bodies. We’re looking for a detail-oriented, analytical individual who thrives in a fast-paced, manufacturing environment.

Key Responsibilities

  • Monitor, evaluate, and report analytical results of raw materials and finished products, alerting the team of any out-of-compliance findings
  • Assist in administering the Company’s Quality Program to meet customer, company, and regulatory requirements
  • Perform sensory evaluations and analyses such as moisture, water activity, and visual inspections
  • Maintain sample retain library and conduct final wash inspections in production areas
  • Conduct internal audits of cGMP areas and maintain glass/brittle inventories
  • Support environmental monitoring (e.g., swabbing) and titration analysis of sanitation chemicals
  • Assist in customer complaint investigations and support third-party audit preparations (e.g., BRC, Safe Food/Safe Feed, HACCP)
  • Create and maintain accurate production documentation, certificates of analysis, and archival storage
  • Collaborate with R&D and Operations teams as needed to resolve quality-related issues
  • Ensure lab safety and perform tasks in accordance with Good Laboratory Practices

Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED required, with a minimum of 3 years of experience in quality assurance/control in an FDA-regulated industry
  • Bachelor’s Degree in a science-related field preferred
  • Experience in manufacturing and processing environments is highly desired
  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail
  • Familiarity with food safety standards and regulatory compliance

Our client committed to producing high-quality, safe food products that make a difference. As part of their QA team, you'll play a key role in upholding our quality standards and ensuring compliance, contributing directly to the success and reputation of our organization.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly® Science & Clinical?

Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it’s the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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