Associate Quality Assurance

Job DescriptionThe Quality Associate is responsible for monitoring and ensuring the quality, freshness, safety, and compliance of fresh products including fruits, vegetables, and meat across stores, warehouses, and suppliers. The role involves conducting inspections, identifying quality deviations, supporting corrective actions, and ensuring compliance with food safety standards and company specifications. What’s On Your Plate? Conduct routine quality inspections for fruits, vegetables, and meat products at stores, distribution centers, and supplier locations. Verify product compliance with company specifications, food safety requirements, and applicable regulatory standards. Evaluate freshness, appearance, color, texture, ripeness, packaging condition, temperature, and shelf life. Perform sampling and inspection activities using standard quality procedures and checklists. Monitor product handling, storage conditions, hygiene practices, and cold chain compliance. Identify defects, non-conformities, damages, contamination risks, or quality deviations and report findings accordingly. Coordinate with operations, suppliers, and store teams to implement corrective and preventive actions. Support product rejection and escalation processes when quality standards are not met. Maintain inspection records, reports, and quality documentation accurately. Assist in supplier performance evaluations and quality improvement initiatives. Ensure compliance with HACCP, food safety standards, and internal quality protocols. Support investigations related to customer complaints and quality incidents. Build and maintain effective relationships with store employees, suppliers, and management teams.