Quality Assurance Associate, Produce
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Job overview
The Quality Assurance Associate, Produce inspects products to identify quality issues and assists with repacking as needed. The role includes checking cooler inventory and product dates, removing or reworking distressed items, and communicating quality concerns to buyers, management, and associates. It also involves inspecting production-line products, identifying them by size, origin, and count, and ensuring inventory is blocked and labeled.
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JOB SUMMARY
Responsible for inspecting the product to identify quality issues and assisting with product repacking as needed.
RESPONSIBILITIES
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Provide technical, customer relations, and personnel management for major programs and projects.
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Conduct daily walk-through of assigned coolers to check the quality of the product and identify any quality issues.
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Check dates of product for proper product rotation by date.
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Remove any distressed product, determine what product needs reworking and what product should be discarded.
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Rework all distressed/damaged products
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Communicate quality issues to buyers, management, and associates. Report all lost product or transfers.
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Assure that all inventory is properly blocked and labeled.
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Inspects product on production lines; identifies issues and notifies line leads
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Identifies products according to size, origin, and count
QUALIFICATIONS
Education
Prefer High School or GED
Experience
A minimum of two (2) years related experience (knowledge of produce industry preferred).
Skills
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Ability to operate warehouse power equipment.
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Ability to interact with others in a professional manner.
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Good verbal and written communication skills.
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General understanding of the shipping procedures of a high volume warehouse operation.
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Solid understanding of produce varieties handled in a wholesale operation.
Decision Making Authority
Most important decisions made fully independently:
Identifying quality issues, removing the distressed and damaged product
Most important decisions made with review and approval of other individuals or supervisors (include the reviews/approvals required):
All work regularly reviewed by the supervisor and manager.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
Please provide any other information that you think would help us further define the nature and scope of this position.
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Eliminated Produce QC Inspector title.
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Some stooping and bending required.
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Ability to manually inspect produce efficiently for periods of up to or exceeding eight (8) hours.
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They must be able to move around the work area freely.
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Frequent lifting of the product up to 50 lbs. during the shift, infrequent lifting up to 80 lbs.
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION STATEMENT:
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer, and consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, creed, religion, ancestry, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, veteran status or any other protected factor under federal, state or local law. This opportunity is available through Sysco Corporation, its subsidiaries and affiliates.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,888 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.
- Pay
- This postingNot listed
- Texas median$85–130K/yr105 salary ranges
- Texas median$24–33/hr39 hourly ranges
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 336 open Quality Assurance jobs in Texas and 4,888 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
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- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 2 years of experience; Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (3,752 postings).
- Education
- 1,660 of the 4,888 open Quality Assurance jobs (34%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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