Teams 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.