Quality Engineer

E. & J. Gallo Winery • Full-time • Modesto, California, United States • $68.64k - $93.70k / year • 4d ago

Why Gallo?

With a global portfolio of over 100 unique wine and spirits brands, we are the largest family-owned winery in the world. Apply Today! Our Brands. Your Future.

Are you passionate about food safety, quality assurance, and continuous improvement? Join our team as a Quality Engineer and be part of an innovative company committed to excellence. Under general supervision, you will apply and ensure the execution of food safety, quality assurance procedures, and quality systems. As a functional liaison, you will ensure consistent alignment of quality assurance objectives and provide support in driving supplier quality performance specified in contract agreements, winery policies, and brand protection expectations.

In this dynamic role, you will investigate ideas and opportunities to improve our company’s competitiveness, enhance throughput, and reduce operational costs. You will implement operations policies, procedures, systems, and strategies against corporate quality standards. As Quality’s primary contact being quality and food safety issues, you will drive audits and corrective actions with external and internal partners, execute gap plans, and present updates to Quality and Operations management.

Your responsibilities will include facilitating, performing root-cause analysis for quality, food safety related issues, applying statistical techniques to sampling protocols, and conducting monthly quality reviews with suppliers and the operations team. You will develop quality assurance reports, communicate results, and support supplier quality improvement through targeted projects. Additionally, you will execute qualifications and verification programs to assure brand protection and specification conformance.

We value intrapreneurship, ownership behaviors, encouraging you to think boldly, take appropriate risks, show initiative, and drive candid discussions. You will have the opportunity to participate in food safety and quality audit programs, support onsite production, and recommend revisions of specifications when indicated. By supporting solutions for cost savings and implementing technology improvements, you will play a crucial role in achieving our project goals and objectives.

What You Will Need:

Bachelor's degree Food Science, Enology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology, or Biology plus 2 years of quality assurance/quality control, production, operations, winemaking, or engineering experience reflecting increasing levels or responsibility. OR High school diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 6 years of quality assurance/quality control, production, operations, winemaking, or engineering experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Research and problem-solving skills
Required to travel to company offices, sites, and/or meeting locations for onboarding, training, meetings, and events for development, department needs, and business delivery up to 5% of the time, with or without reasonable accommodation. This may be in addition to travel requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.
Required to be 18 years or older. This may be in addition to other age requirements, if applicable, as listed in this job description.

Gallo does not sponsor for employment based visas for this position now or in the future.

Compensation:

Hiring Salary Range Posted: $68,640 - $93,700 / year
Actual compensation paid within the range will be determined by factors such as the education, experience, knowledge, skills and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Perks & Benefits:

This position includes a competitive benefits package.

This position will be based in the location(s) specified in the job posting and requires working on-site with no telecommuting option. You will be expected to live within a commutable distance.

Application Window is Expected to Close On: May 14, 2025

Recruiter: Myranda Brown

Requisition ID: 106021

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Gallo’s policy is to afford equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees and not to discriminate on the basis of race, traits associated with race, including but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles (such as braids, locks, and twists), color, national origin, ancestry, creed, religion, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition as defined by applicable state law (including cancer and predisposing genetic characteristics), genetic information, marital status, familial status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation (actual or perceived), transgender status, sex stereotyping, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions, reproductive health decision making, age, military or veteran status, domestic violence or sexual assault victim status, or any other basis protected by applicable law. Nor will Gallo discriminate based on a perception that an individual has any of the foregoing characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

Gallo will comply with state and local laws prohibiting discrimination for lawful out-of-work behavior, such as off-duty use of cannabis away from the workplace (subject to federal and state law exceptions), the existence of non-psychoactive cannabis metabolites in hair, blood, urine, or other bodily fluids as determined by a drug screening test (subject to federal and state law exceptions).

We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Gallo is committed to providing reasonable accommodation for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance or accommodation due to a disability, please let us know at 209.341.7000.

Gallo is enrolled in the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify program and will use the program to verify the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees as required.

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