Primary Purpose
Responsible for maintaining and enforcing grain quality standards across Agri-Business operations to ensure compliance with customer requirements, company expectations, and applicable quality specifications. This role provides oversight of grain quality processes across multiple locations, including receiving, storage, handling, and customer sales, and is accountable for ensuring quality standards are consistently applied and maintained. Through collaboration with facility leadership and operations teams, the position has the authority to identify non-conforming product, require corrective action, and prevent shipment of grain that does not meet established quality standards. The role partners with Operations, customers, and external stakeholders to drive continuous improvement in grain quality performance and protect the integrity of grain products delivered to customers.
Major Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for maintaining and enforcing grain quality standards across Agri-Business operations to ensure compliance with customer requirements, company expectations, and applicable quality specifications. Conduct quality audits, inspections, and compliance reviews to ensure quality standards are consistently applied across multiple grain locations. Identify non-conforming product, require corrective actions, and exercise authority to hold, reject, or require rework of grain that does not meet established quality specifications or customer requirements.
- Maintain grain quality standards, documentation, records, and compliance requirements to ensure expectations are consistently communicated and applied across all locations. Monitor, analyze, and distribute quality-related reports, including grain rejections, testing results, compliance metrics, and quality trends. Identify deficiencies, communicate findings to facility leadership, and support corrective actions to protect product quality and customer requirements.
- Maintain current knowledge of grain quality standards, testing methodologies, regulatory requirements, and industry best practices through participation in professional development programs, including Grain Elevator and Processing Society (GEAPS) and USDA Federal Grain Inspection Service (FGIS) training. Recommend and support training opportunities that promote consistent application of quality standards across grain operations.
- Maintain relationships with industry organizations, vendors, customers, and external partners, including Envirologix and the GEAPS Atlantic Coast Chapter, to stay informed of emerging quality standards, testing technologies, regulatory developments, and industry best practices affecting grain operations. Partner with external stakeholders to support compliance with customer quality requirements and industry standards.
- Support safety, environmental, regulatory, and quality compliance initiatives through documentation, record management, reporting, and audit support activities. Participate in special projects and cross-functional efforts to ensure compliance with applicable regulations, customer requirements, and company quality standards.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Agriculture, Agri-Business, Agricultural Sciences, or a related field.
- 2+ years' experience in grain quality, quality assurance, grain operations, agriculture, or a related field.
- Laboratory experience related to grain testing and quality analysis.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to enter and work within grain handling, processing, and production facilities.
- Understanding of grain handling and grain operations.
- Ability to interpret quality standards, identify non-conforming product, and effectively communicate corrective actions to facility leadership.
- Training or professional development through industry organizations such as GEAPS and/or FGIS preferred.
Requires 50–60% travel to grain elevator locations throughout Maryland and Delaware to support quality audits, training, inspections, and compliance with established grain quality standards.
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ABOUT US:Are you looking for more than just a job? The culture at Mountaire is one of our greatest strengths and most valued assets. We maintain the same core values and family-focused work environment that we’ve operated with since day one. You will find that your peers, supervisor and team members are genuinely committed to, not only your success, but also working together to provide high-quality products to our customers. We are a service to one another and to our customers, demonstrating operational excellence and outstanding performance.
ABOUT THE TEAM:Mountaire Overview
Mountaire Farms is an agricultural food production and processing company providing work for over 10,000 people at facilities in Arkansas, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Now the fourth largest chicken company in the United States, we are still family owned and fully committed to giving back to the communities where we do business. At Mountaire Farms, our culture is what defines us. It sets us apart from our competition and reinforces what we stand for. Supporting each other, uplifting each other, and helping each other succeed - that’s the Mountaire way! Our vision is to provide growth, stability, and opportunities for our people, our customers, and our communities by profitably delivering wholesome quality chicken.
Total Compensation
Mountaire also offers an amazing total compensation package! A few examples of our benefits that may be offered to you are: eight paid holidays, Medical Plans with free onsite Health and Wellness Centers, Dental and Vision Programs, Employee Assistance Program for you and your family, Retirement Planning with 401(k), Profit Sharing, Employee Discounted Chicken Sales, Employee Discounts with partners (Car Purchase, Phone Plans, & Shopping), Tuition Reimbursement and many exciting career development programs!
