Larae Jacobs Email & Phone Number

Frontenac, Ks

Experiences have included the following:1.) Started up a microbiological and chemistry laboratory on site complete with programs and procedures for testing and GLP. Completed all testing until laboratory was moved to Corporate.2.) Assistant QA Manager--assisted QA Manager with personnel issues, daily paperwork, food safety inspections, etc.3.) FSQA Manager--handled all aspects of food safety and quality for the production plant, and led FSQA Team.4.) Corporate QA & Food Safety--provided food safety and quality training modules for all plants, wrote and implemented food safety, quality, and process control programs, handled customer complaints, audits, and visits, tracked/trended customer complaints, provided follow-up to customer complaints, communicated and distributed customer information as needed, provided responses and programs in customer online sites as required, provided feedback and support for peers and plant QA Managers, etc.5.) FSQA Manager--established successful FSQA Team and handled customer audits and visits.6.) Plant FSQA Manager/FSQA Support/Lab Manager in Training--training as a Lab Manager, Lab Tech, Lab Supervisor for both Microbiological and Chemistry Laboratory while supporting the FSQA Manager, FSQA Supervisors, and FSQA Team in their roles and responsibilities.

Junction City, Ks

Conducted the following in the Quality Facilitator role: Pre-Operational Inspection of equipment across the production plant, Operational inspections, HACCP/CCP verifications, Hold and Release log/program, Listeria laboratory testing, Listeria swabbing/sampling of environment, product samples for micro and chemistry tests as needed, product and room temperature verifications, worked with USDA to resolve issues, etc.

Hutchenson, Ks

Summer R&D Internship--worked in test kitchen, pilot plant, and production plant tests. Learned formulations and various cooking/smoking product techniques, as well as meat processing techniques.

Marshalltown, Ia

Summer Internship in Quality in the pork slaughter operation--pre-operational inspection, inspection of carcasses/head meats/etc., operation of lean/fat meter, etc.