Description:

The QA Technician is responsible to support the facility in finished product, packaging, and raw material testing to help ensure released product meets specifications. In addition, this position includes internal quality and food safety audits to ensure compliance with policies and procedures. The position will include maintaining equipment in the milk receiving and laboratories. Performing necessary daily checks within the Milk Receiving laboratory. This position will also cross-train on procedures within the main chemistry lab and perform testing within the main chemistry lab as needed.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Manage finished product, packaging, and raw material sample receipt, handling, and testing.

- Perform component testing on incoming milk, oil, corn syrup, and perform cream release testing and review.

- Perform ID testing on incoming raw materials for release, usage and review.

- Make cleaning solution and zero solution for FT2, perform daily calibrations on Charm SL equipment.

- Maintain laboratory environment that is clean, orderly and safe by following proper policies, procedures and techniques to protect employees and the environment for biological contamination and safety hazards.

- Take temperatures of laboratory refrigerator(s), incubator(s) on a daily basis.

- Order supplies and track inventory of laboratory consumables.

- Revise procedures, protocols and process flows as necessary.

- Accurately records, reviews, and verify results using Good Documentation Practices (GDPs).

- Perform task according to Good Laboratory Practices (GLPs).

- Execute Internal Control Plan (ICP) for laboratory equipment.

- Responsible for data entry of laboratory results in SAP and other data management systems.

- Laboratory data consolidation, trending, and reporting to operational teams.

- Completion of all necessary transactions in SAP.

- Timely and effective communications of all out-of-norm results to ensure deviations are resolved.

- Understand and follow all Good Laboratory Practices.

- Manage receipt, storage, and inventory of all laboratory consumables.

- Completion of daily, weekly, and monthly quality and food safety internal audits of the facility.

- Work safely and report any unsafe situations or conditions.

- Active participant in continuous improvement teams.

- Obtain and maintain appendix N certification, successfully complete annual split samples.

Qualifications:

-Bachelors degree in life science discipline

-Experience working within laboratory setting (can be from education)

-Strongly prefers industry quality laboratory experience

-Understanding of lab environment and GMP guidelines.

-Ability and understanding to follow quality assurance checks/inspections/lab tests

-Desire and ability to work 3rd shift and grow long term with

Experience Level:

Entry Level

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