Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician
St James, MNFull-time$22.48/hrPosted 2 days agoStill listed today
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Job overview
The Food Safety & Quality Assurance Technician monitors product attributes and plant procedures to support product quality and compliance with food safety, regulatory, company, and safety requirements. The role also supports organizational culture change through facilitative leadership and follows established processes for Safe Quality Food requirements. A high school education is the minimum; related work experience is beneficial, while an associate degree and food-processing experience are preferred.
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Full job description
If you are currently employed at Smithfield, please log into Workday and submit your application through the Jobs Hub.
Have a seat at our table. When you join Smithfield, you become part of something special – a company that's sustainably feeding people around the world, producing good food the right way with respect for our people, animals, communities and planet. With opportunities across locations and functions, a culture grounded in our Core Four values - gratitude, communication, respect and accountability - and a strong commitment to learning, collaboration, and innovation, Smithfield offers challenging and rewarding careers where you can grow, contribute and make a real impact. Apply Now!
Your Opportunity
Our team members receive industry-leading wages and are eligible for great benefits packages as a food production worker:
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Sign-On Bonus - $500
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Hourly Competitive Starting Pay – $22.48/hour
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$1.00/hour shift differential for 2nd shift positions
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Comprehensive Health Insurance, Retirement Benefits and More
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Education benefits available to full and part-time Smithfield team members upon meeting eligibility requirements
In addition, we offer opportunities for career growth and professional development.
- Monitor product attributes to assure product quality is at targeted levels
- Supervisar los atributos del producto para garantizar que la calidad del producto se encuentre en los niveles previstos.
- Assure compliance to food safety, regulatory and company policies
- Garantizar el cumplimiento de las políticas de seguridad alimentaria, regulatorias y de la empresa.
- Support organizational culture change through facilitative leadership
- Apoyar el cambio de cultura organizacional a través del liderazgo facilitador.
- Assure compliance with all established safety procedures
- Asegurar el cumplimiento de todos los procedimientos de seguridad establecidos.
- Monitor to assure conformance to plant and QA procedures
- Monitorear para asegurar el cumplimiento de los procedimientos de calidad y de la planta.
- Adhere to established procedures and processes in regard to Safe Quality Food (SQF) requirements.
- Adherirse a los procedimientos y procesos establecidos con respecto a los requisitos de Alimentos de Calidad Segura (SQF).
Education and Experience requirement/ Requisito de educación y experiencia. Minimum: Requires a high school education; Related work experience beneficial. Mínimo: Requiere educación secundaria; Experiencia laboral relacionada beneficiosa. Preferred: Associates degree with 1-3 years' experience of working in food processing Privilegiado: Título asociado con 1 a 3 años de experiencia trabajando en procesamiento de alimentos. Relocation Package Available No EEO Information Smithfield is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, gender identity, protected veterans status, status as a disabled individual or any other protected group status or non-job characteristic as directed by law.
If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment selection process, please call us at 757-357-1595.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,847 open Quality Assurance jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 10, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$22.48/hr
- Minnesota median$25–35/hr40 hourly ranges
- US median$25–31/hr791 hourly ranges
This rate, $22.48/hr, is 23% below the Minnesota median midpoint ($29/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Quality Assurance hourly ranges in Minnesota.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 119 open Quality Assurance jobs in Minnesota and 4,847 across the US. 3% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Minnesota
- Actalent10 open
- State of Minnesota6 open
- Boston Scientific4 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Quality Assurance postings that state a minimum ask for (median 5 years, across 3,723 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 2,356 of the 4,847 open Quality Assurance jobs (49%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 10, 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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