Food Quality Control Associate

About the role

Responsible for ensuring food safety and quality standards are met by routine monitoring of receiving, production, and food storage activities. The QC Associate will help ensure adherence to established food safety standards, current Good Manufacturing practices (cGMP) and CCPs, throughout the food process flow.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Monitoring Good Manufacturing Practices and personnel practices at the Central Commissary Kitchen (daily audits will be required)
• Ensuring areas are properly stocked with necessary inventory prior to service
• Weekly Food safety inspections in the commissary
• Daily review of Central Kitchen cleaning (connecting with Sanitation team)
• Daily review of Cold Storage Logs (each vehicle has 2-5 papers that should be filled out daily)
• Quality Control  (QA) Associate will be responsible for weekly calibration and documenting of calibrated thermometers (IR and digital) and ensuring annual calibration of certified thermometers
• Providing copies of Critical Control Point logs for the protein, starch & veggie kitchen and ensuring logs are completed and retrieved daily.
• Monitor the receiving process for all produce received (fresh, frozen, and dry products) and confirm these products are received at required temperature (This is documented in Enterprise Resource Planning by the inbound receiving personnel.) QA Tech will only confirm other requirements as listed in Critical Control Point 1)
• Daily monitoring and documentation of all refrigeration and freezer temperatures (accomplished twice daily)
• Responsible for providing and ensuring other daily records, (chemical concentration logs, dish wash temp logs, ice machine cleaning logs -weekly and monthly) are completed by the sanitation team as required
• Work with the sanitation team to ensure daily cleanliness of the facility and its environment by conducting daily checks of food production and storage areas
• Assist in facilitating the daily operations and activities in the commissary and outbound warehouse areas prior to dispatch, while ensuring food safety measures are met during the process

Role Details

• Pay rate: $19.00/hr
• Job location: Cranford, NJ
• Full-time and Part-time available

Qualifications & Skills

• Must be able to lift, pull, and push 50 pounds
• Able to work in a cold environment (32- 36 degrees)
• Sense of urgency
• Excellent communication skills and teamwork
• Ability to use and operate a tablet (like an iPad)
• Great attention to detail
• Serve Safe food handling certified or equivalent
• 6mo + experience in Quality Control or Quality Assurance role in a Food Service Environment
• Must be at least 18 years old and legally authorized to work in the US 

*This list of qualifications also reflects the qualifications used as vetting criteria for our AEDT (Automated Employment Decision Tool)

Benefits 

• 401k 
• Medical, dental, vision 
• Health savings account with employer match 
• 100% employer paid life insurance 
• 1.5x pay if you work on holidays 
• Learning and development opportunities to advance your career 
• Employee Stock Options

Note: Some of our benefits vary by state and depend on the number of hours you work.  

About Us  

Imagine: 30 unique restaurants to order from, brought to your door in under 30 minutes. That’s what our customers experience.

At Wonder, we want to make world-class food within reach, no matter where you live. That’s why we’ve created a vertically integrated, new standard of dining that will allow you to enjoy menus from award-winning chefs and iconic restaurants across the country, all in one place. Our elevated brick + mortar locations will offer pick up and dine in options, as well as delivery to your home.

As a food-tech startup backed by top-tier venture capitalists and led by a team of experienced entrepreneurs—including some of the most accomplished leaders in the technology, culinary, and logistics industries—we’re growing. Join us in pioneering a new category of dining called “Fast-Fine”, and revolutionizing the way people eat. 

An AEDT (Automated Employment Decision Tool) is employed in the assessment of applicants for the positions being recruited for in order to gauge the following pertinent qualifications or traits:

• The candidate’s ability to perform the tasks in the available job role.
• The candidate's self-rated skill proficiency.
• The candidate’s fit for this job posting.

More information about the type, source, and retention policy relating to data collected for the AEDT can be found on the privacy policy here. We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to manage your application for and employment with the Company and in accordance with our data retention schedule.  We may retain your personal information for longer if it is necessary to comply with our legal or reporting obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, enforce our legal agreements and policies, address other legitimate business needs, or as permitted or required by applicable law.  We may also retain your personal information in a deidentified or aggregated form so that it can no longer be associated with you.  To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal information, we consider various factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of your information; the potential risk of unauthorized access, use or disclosure; the purposes for which we collect or process your personal information; and applicable legal requirements.  Personal information does not include certain categories of information, such as publicly available information from government records, personal information you make available to the public, and deidentified or aggregated information.