Jobs at Western Smokehouse Partners

Monitors smokehouse thermal-processing operations to ensure food safety, product quality, HACCP, USDA, and regulatory compliance. Verifies process parameters, reviews batch records, conducts sanitation and product inspections, maintains calibration logs, and supports traceability, audits, corrective actions, troubleshooting, and regulatory inspections. Collaborates with Production, QA, and Maintenance in a high-volume meat manufacturing environment.

Supports the QA team in maintaining food safety and product quality within ready-to-eat manufacturing. Duties include pre-operational checks, production monitoring, quality testing, labeling verification, internal audits, HACCP and CCP documentation, corrective actions, process validation, recall tracking, pest control oversight, and maintaining accurate records in compliance with SOPs, GMPs, FDA regulations, and OSHA standards.

Supports food product development, pilot plant trials, process validation, food safety, quality assurance, regulatory compliance, technical training, and commercialization of ready-to-eat meat snacks. Maintains HACCP, GMP, SSOP, allergen control, and food defense programs; conducts testing, inspections, investigations, and documentation; assists with formulation scaling, customer projects, employee training, and audit readiness. The role is based in Galesburg, Illinois, requires substantial physical activity in a refrigerated production environment, and includes occasional travel.

Oversee food safety and quality operations: lead FSQA team, conduct GMP/sanitation audits, verify HACCP CCPs, maintain SQF program, ensure USDA/FDA compliance, manage product holds/dispositions, perform equipment calibration/validation, and collaborate with operations to produce safe, high-quality meat snack products in a cold production environment.

Lead daily food safety and quality assurance activities including audits, HACCP monitoring, GMP and sanitation checks, product holds/releases, equipment calibration, regulatory support (FDA/USDA), root-cause investigations, and SQF program implementation to ensure compliance with company, customer, and regulatory standards.

Oversee daily packaging and processing production to meet safety, quality, throughput, yield, and cost targets. Lead cross-functional teams, ensure USDA/FDA/HACCP/SQF/BRC compliance, drive continuous improvement (Lean/Six Sigma), manage budgets and KPIs, support maintenance and equipment reliability, and develop production supervisors and hourly staff.

Support QA team with pre-op checks, production monitoring, data collection, audits, HACCP/hazard analysis tasks, documentation, corrective actions, and verification to ensure food safety and product quality in Ready-To-Eat production.