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Quality Assurance Technician

Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom
Portland, OR Full Time
POSTED ON 6/1/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/30/2026
Kelly® Science & Clinical is seeking Quality Assurance Technician for a temp-to-hire position at a manufacturing partner for leading snack brands. Located in the Portland metro area. If you’re passionate about working in Quality Assurance and are ready to take the next step in your career, trust The Experts at Hiring Experts.

Pay: $24/hour $1/hour shift differential

Overview

This client is a manufacturing partner for leading all-natural, organic, and gluten-free snack brands dedicated to producing sustainable, innovative, and healthy products.

In this role you’ll be working with the quality team to ensure food safety and compliance. This role will give you an opportunity to learn and grow while helping to ensure food quality for customers.

Schedule

  • Night Shift: Friday-Monday, every other Saturday – 6:45pm-7am

Responsibilities:

  • Operate in work groups and monitor processes within an assigned area of responsibility.
  • Collect and analyze sample data to ensure product conformance and process control.
  • Monitor customer specifications to ensure proper moisture, weight, color, and dimension of products produced.
  • Monitor Preventative Controls and reports non-conformance to management; may assist with corrective actions.
  • Monitor and provide guidance to production employees to ensure sanitation requirements are met during production.
  • Initiate food safety and quality hold procedures, including communication and required record-keeping.
  • Conduct regular plant food safety and security audits, and reports non-conformance.
  • Act as auditor and verifier of daily quality tasks throughout the processing area.
  • Monitor production employees to ensure GMP compliance and reports violations.
  • Participate in sensory panels.
  • Responsible for the health and safety of self and co-workers

Qualifications

  • BS in Food Science or related field preferred, High School Diploma or equivalent required.
  • Prior experience in a Food Processing facility, in Quality or in a role closely related to Quality.
  • Understanding of basic mathematical calculations, reading numbers and symbols, and record keeping.

What Happens Next

Once you apply, you’ll proceed to next steps if your skills and experience look like a good fit. But don’t worry – even if this position doesn’t work out, you’re still in our network. That means our team of expert Science & Clinical recruiters will have access to your profile, making your opportunities limitless.

As part of our promise to talent, Kelly supports those who work with us through a variety of benefits, perks, and work-related resources. Kelly offers eligible employees voluntary benefit plans including medical, dental, vision, telemedicine, term life, whole life, accident insurance, critical illness, a legal plan, and short-term disability. As a Kelly employee, you will have access to a retirement savings plan, service bonus and holiday pay plans (earn up to eight paid holidays per benefit year), and a transit spending account. In addition, employees are entitled to earn paid sick leave under the applicable state or local plan. Click here for more information on benefits and perks that may be available to you as a member of the Kelly Talent Community.

Why Kelly® Science & Clinical?

Kelly Science & Clinical is your connection to premier scientific and clinical companies looking to hire industry experts just like you. Our team creates expert talent solutions to solve the world’s most critical challenges. Every day, we match science professionals with dream jobs that fit their skills, interests, and career goals—it’s the way we think job searching should be. Nearly 100 percent of our science recruiters have a professional background and education in science, so we know a thing or two about the science market and how to get your expertise noticed.

About Kelly

Work changes everything. And at Kelly, we’re obsessed with where it can take you. To us, it’s about more than simply accepting your next job opportunity. It’s the fuel that powers every next step of your life. It’s the ripple effect that changes and improves everything for your family, your community, and the world. Which is why, here at Kelly, we are dedicated to providing you with limitless opportunities to enrich your life—just ask the 300,000 people we employ each year.

Kelly is committed to providing equal employment opportunities to all qualified employees and applicants regardless of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, marital status, pregnancy, genetic information, or any other legally protected status, and we take affirmative action to recruit, employ, and advance qualified individuals with disabilities and protected veterans in the workforce. Requests for accommodation related to our application process can be directed to the Kelly Human Resource Knowledge Center. Kelly complies with the requirements of California’s state and local Fair Chance laws. A conviction does not automatically bar individuals from employment. Kelly participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with your Form I-9 information to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.

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