-: So my name's Caitlyn Walters.
I'm a quality and process control supervisor
at Hormel Foods located down in Austin, Minnesota.
So basically what I do is I manage our food safety systems
So each and every day I go to the plant
and making sure that our food safety programs
and all the regulations are being followed correctly.
To make sure we're producing that
safe and quality food everyday.
Yeah so we've got the USDA down in our plant
and they've got different regulatories.
So things based on sanitation.
So I make sure our preoperative sanitation,
all of our equipments clean and ready to be used.
We do validations on our ovens, making sure
that the temperatures are being checked correctly.
Things like that.
So I manage a group of clerks and they are doing checks
down on the floor, temperature, food quality related.
And then I also handle doing projects
like our oven validations,
where I'll take temperature probes
and put them throughout the oven
to validate how the temperature is being distributed
throughout the whole oven and making sure that's all safe.
We do annual validations and that's kind of
what I'm working on now with the ovens.
But they run, the plant runs 24/7.
And the ovens will usually be running the whole time
so we've got different operators down there
monitoring charts and monitoring the temperature probes
and seeing how that's all going.
And then I'll get the records and we'll review them
that day or the following day.
So I've got a team of auditors down on the floor
and they perform a bunch of different checks.
So, ya know, I'll go check in with them every day.
Make sure everything's going correctly.
They don't have any issues.
We do their scheduling, their time card approvals.
And then making sure they get days off that they need.
So just kinda managing, making sure that
we have people at each line managing the process down there.
We have a lot of different projects.
Kind of, how can we improve the quality of our food.
How can we improve line speed,
making sure that the lines running at an effective speed
but also we're producing safe and quality food.
But there's a lot of opportunities for me.
Recently I've gotten to travel to different plants
and just kinda see how all the different processes run.
Cause we have a lot of different products that we create.
So kind of developing my career
and learning different plants and seeing what they do.