LF Quality Administrator

15657 18th St NE, Little Falls, MN, USA | 2nd Shift - 2pm - 10:30pm | Hourly | 23.50-27.00 per hour | Full Time

| Company Paid Medical, Dental, Vision, 401(k), Life Insurance, Health Savings Account, Competitive Salary, Paid Time Off, Paid Holidays, Free Pet Food, Fun Company Events

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Join the Barrett Petfood family and enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical (company paid), dental, and vision insurance; a 401(k) with company match; life insurance; health savings account; paid time off; seven paid holidays; employee discounts; complimentary pet food; and fun, company-sponsored events.

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As a Quality Administrator, you help protect food safety and customer requirements by keeping quality systems accurate, current, and audit-ready. You'll support production by maintaining controlled documents, updating QA records, and verifying that finished product can be released from CCPs in line with documented specifications.

A Typical Shift

You'll spend most of the day at a workstation moving between digital files and paper records, checking that forms match the latest controlled versions and that logs are current. Expect steady coordination with QA and production-answering quick questions, clarifying documentation, and tracking down missing details so records stay clean. Throughout the day you'll review CCP-related paperwork and, when everything aligns, complete release steps with confidence. The pace is consistent and detail-driven: small discrepancies matter, and you'll feel the satisfaction of leaving the day with files organized, logs up to date, and decisions well documented.

2nd shift Mon - Fri 2PM - 1030PM Pay Range $23.50 - $27.00/hr (+$1.50 shift differential)

DAY TO DAY RESPONSIBLITIES:

• Review and maintain compliance with SQF, HACCP/CCP, GMP, and process verification standards; identify deficiencies and support corrective and preventive actions.

• Develop and maintain product specification checklists; update formulations and manage documentation for recipe or process changes.

• Serve as a resource for data trending, analysis, and QA documentation.

• Prepare customer-required documentation in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.

• Monitor and analyze production records to identify trends, reduce waste, and improve efficiency; communicate recurring issues to plant leadership.

• Maintain and revise SOPs, ensuring accurate version control and documentation tracking.

• Perform laboratory testing to verify production quality as needed.

• Ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and audit standards.

• Inspect and release incoming materials based on specifications.

• Troubleshoot and resolve routine quality and production issues, including identification and handling of non-conforming materials.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

• Prolonged periods of standing and walking through the factory.

• Ability to safely climb and descend stairs and ladders as required to perform essential job functions.

• Must be able to lift 50 pounds at times.

Required qualifications/skills:- 4-year degree (preferably Food Science) or equivalent education/experience- 3+ years of food industry experience- Working knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, and regulatory expectations- Strong computer skills and high attention to detail- Proven troubleshooting and problem-solving ability

NOTICE - BACKGROUND INVESTIGATION

Barrett Petfood is committed to a safe workplace for all of our employees.

In connection with your employment with the Company, notice is hereby given that aconsumer report and/or investigative consumer report may be obtained from aconsumer reporting agency for employment purposes. These reports may containinformation about your character, general reputation, personal characteristics and modeof living, whichever are applicable. They may involve personal interviews with sourcessuch as your neighbors, friends or associates. The reports may also contain informationabout you relating to your criminal history, credit history, driving and/or motor vehiclerecords, education or employment history or other background checks.You have the right, upon written request made within a reasonable time after the receiptof this notice, to request disclosure of the nature and scope of any investigativeconsumer report. The scope of this notice and authorization is not limited to the presentand, if you are hired, will continue throughout the course of your employment and allowthe Company to conduct future screenings for retention, promotion or reassignment, aspermitted by law unless revoked by you in writing.