The Morning Star Company

Seasonal QC Lab Coordinator

Santa Nella, CA (Liberty Packing facility)

About the Company

The Morning Star Company and its affiliates operate three tomato processing facilities in Central California, processing about 40% of the California processing tomato crop, in addition to tomato growing, transplanting, farming, harvesting and trucking operations.  The company employs approximately 500 year-round and over 3,000 seasonal colleagues, with annual sales of about $1 billion.

The Morning Star Company is the largest producer of bulk tomato ingredient products (tomato paste and diced tomatoes) in the world.  We also produce canned tomatoes, tomato products and specialty sauces in pouches for customers in the retail and food service markets.  The company is known worldwide for its innovation and integrity.

We are organizationally structured through a system we term Mission Focused Self-Management™.  Our company is operated by Colleagues without titles or an appointed hierarchy of authority.  Authority relative to other Colleagues’ activities is lateral, with our Mission as our guiding principle of action, and respect, influence and success built based on each Colleague’s integrity, competency, effort, persistence and straightforward persuasiveness.  Although we have grown significantly, we intend to maintain a culture of individual responsibility and Mission Focused Self-Management.

The Mission and Position

To provide accurate, timely quality information for manufacturing so that changes can be made when necessary to meet customer expectations.

Responsibilities and Activities

• Conduct training and documentation of returning and new Colleagues & ensure QC documents and forms available & QC Safety and Compliance of GMP’s, Reinforce Food Safety Culture and Food Defense
• Verify all technicians are following SOP’s and monitor production to ensure compliance with customer specifications
• Oversee and coordinate the daily quality control activities including placement of QC colleagues, work assignments, performance, training, and reviews
• Inform production colleagues and others, as required, of process or quality deviations that require corrective action in a timely manner and follow-through to ensure corrections are made successfully and Communicate with lab and flow coordinators, caustic recovery, steam peeler and mechanics to meet specifications,
• Confirm which products are running on respective systems and lines and coordinate Colleagues are needed
• Provide QC information to all Colleagues & Perform pass down to incoming shift
• Maintain workplace area clean and sanitized
• Ability to perform analytical testing and grading for evaporated tomato products, formulated sauces, peeled tomatoes, and Fires Roasted products
• Verify using correct containers & evaluation of cans/pouches condition
• Review QC records and Data Entry for accuracy and timeliness, assuring accuracy and readability
• Set up work orders and ensure Work Order changes according to Quality Standards
• Identify products that do not meet customer specifications prior to leaving the Liberty facility & retesting as required
• Maintain accurate Hold information logs, assign Quality Hold’s as needed ,Rechecking Hold samples
• Responsible for Pre-op, Sanitation and Post Maintenance Inspections
• Maintain quality control instruments and review calibration records and request supplies when needed
• Responsible for Calibration of Lab Thermometers, auditing ingredients and batch forms
• Responsible for ATP swabbing before packing organic products
• Ongoing inventory throughout the season to ensure proper account of supplies
• Retesting samples for customer complaints or any extra testing as needed
• Relief technicians for lunch if needed
• Testing Morningstar and PCP crosschecks
• Assist on customer and daily cuttings
• Conduct meetings with Lab technicians to resolve conflicts, following the Colleague’s guidelines
• Continually working on improving overall function and performance of the Lab
• Recollection of customer samples and control display samples
• Document information in the Logbook regarding an event, occurrence, or issue
• Implementation of Discrepancy forms at the time of an issue or occurrence in production that will affect the product
• Citric and Brine injection adjustment as needed based on product testing

Knowledge, Talent and Experience Requirements

• Ability to listen & communicate written and oral information
• Ability to push, pull and lift to 50lbs & work long hours, overnight and weekends throughout the season
• Ability to work in high noise, high heat & cold weather conditions
• Ability to follow GMP, Safety & Food Defense policies & work safely in fast-paced production areas
• Ability to stand 85% of your shift and climb stairs every 2-3 hours
• Ability to work in a Self-Management culture, guide Colleagues & be a team player
• Bilingual (English/Spanish)
• Quality Control & Coordinator experience

Compensation

Hourly pay range is $23.00-$26.00 an hour, depending on experience/skills.

1 Openings available for this position.

This position is a seasonal position.

The position is based in Santa Nella, California (Liberty Packing facility).

If interested, please contact Tereza Silva at Liberty Packing or (209) 737-1334 by April 28th, 2026.