Quality Control Inspector

Job Summary

Performs product quality control functions during inbound and outbound shipping; monitors warehouse conditions; inspects product to ensure quality control standards are met.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs inspections to measure product quality in order to ensure product received and shipped from warehouses meets Company and regulatory requirements. Rejects unsafe and poor-quality product as needed.
• Checks vaults on a daily basis to assess and maintain product quality and temperature.
• Performs inspections for weight and temperature along with overall specifications according to BGC and regulatory guidelines. Records and reports findings to management.
• Communicates product issues to category management partners in order to keep them informed on quality of products.
• Looks for quality improvement opportunities and provides recommendations to management.
• Ensures product temperature levels are closely monitored for high-risk and high-priority items. Retrieves temperature recording devices and maintains accurate data logs.
• Checks Universal Product Codes (UPC), Price Look-Up (PLU) codes, country of origin labeling, and expiration dates.
• Applies knowledge of quality assurance techniques and processes to assist with product disposition.
• Performs and monitors the produce ripening process as needed.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Intermediate knowledge of produce.
• Basic knowledge of Microsoft Office applications including Excel, Access, Word, Outlook and PowerPoint.
• Basic mathematical skills.
• Ability to learn regulations and guidelines pertaining to product quality control.
• Ability to comprehend and interpret information.
• Ability to research information, establish facts and draw valid conclusions.
• Ability to learn new technology systems, methods and processes.
• Ability to reason, form concepts and recognize and solve problems.
• Ability to communicate effectively in written and verbal form.
• Ability to work flexible schedules including nights, weekends and holidays.
• Ability to use knives/box cutters and other measurement tools.
• Must be attentive to potential hazards and remedy or place appropriate warning signs or devices around or near the hazard as soon as is reasonably possible.
• Must report any potential hazards that cannot be immediately remedied to a supervisor.

Education, Experience, and Qualifications

• High school Diploma or GED required. 
• Minimum of 18 years of age required.
• Partners must be 21 years of age or older to drive for Company business in accordance with the BGC Business Driver Policy.
• One or more years of related experience; or an equivalent combination of experience and/or higher education required.

Physical Demands

• Continuously required to use close vision, distance vision, depth perception or the ability to focus.
• Frequently required to talk and hear.
• Frequently required to use hands for reaching, touching or handling.
• Frequently required to stand or walk for long periods of time.
• Frequently required to push, pull, maneuver or lift objects up to 50 lbs.
• Occasionally required to use fine finger movements (ex. sorting and typing).
• Occasionally required to sit.
• Occasionally required to bend, kneel or squat.
• Occasionally required to climb, balance, stoop or crawl.
• Attendance at work is required.

Work Context and Environment

• Work is generally performed in a warehouse setting.
• Continuously exposed to extreme cold conditions (non-weather).
• Occasionally exposed to wet, slippery or damp conditions.
• Occasionally exposed to industrial odors, fumes and dust.
• Moderate to loud noise level.