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Job Description:
Job Title: Food Protection-Quality Assurance Technician I
Department: Manufacturing
FLSA: Non-Exempt
General Function:
Involved with all aspects of Quality and Food Safety to ensure safe and wholesome food for our customers. The Quality Assurance Tech will work closely with production employees, supervisors and regulatory staff. Works with staff and suppliers to ensure the food source is safe and wholesome.
Core Competencies

• Partnerships
• Growth mindset
• Results oriented
• Customer focused
• Professionalism

Reporting Relations:
Accountable and Reports to: FPQA Manager and FPQA Supervisor
Positions that Report to you: None
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

• Implements company policies and Federal and State regulations including Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and SQF standards.
• Fill out daily task paperwork and ensure it is completed daily in a timely manner.
• Assist R&D and Upper management with development of new products and procedures as is necessary.
• Review daily samples of all production runs, ensuring proper containers, lids, dating and product are used.
• Conduct daily audits on employees to make sure they're following the Good Manufacturing Practices.
• Monitor daily allergen sequences and assist production with sequence of production runs.
• Ensure daily collection of ATP swabs and weekly collection of Listeria swabs product for presence of Listeria.
• Performs pre-operational sanitation checks on equipment as needed.
• Monitor facility room temperatures, tote wash temperatures, and pre-wash tank solutions.
• Verify line paperwork and checking label accuracy throughout the day.
• Ability to work under time constraints and be flexible in hours worked.
• Assist with tours of the facility for inspections from various regulatory agencies. Follow-up with deviations discovered during inspections.
• Performs other job-related duties and special projects as required.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Worker Characteristics:

• Must have the ability to use logical or scientific thinking to solve problems and with several abstract and concrete variables.
• Must possess good written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to be bi-lingual in Spanish but not required.
• Have the ability to work independently.
• General Microsoft Office Knowledge

Education and Experience:

• Production experience preferred
• Experience in Quality Control helpful

Physical Requirements:

• Must be physically able to exert up to 50 pounds of force occasionally; exert up to 20 pounds of force frequently; and exert up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects.
• Must be able to be on feet (standing and walking) for up to 10 hours a day.
• Visual requirements include vision from less than 20 inches to more than 20 feet with or correction, depth perception, color vision, and field of vision.
• Must be able to perform the following physical activities: balancing, stooping, kneeling, reaching, standing, walking, pulling, lifting, grasping, feeling, talking, hearing, and repetitive motions.

Working Conditions:

• The duties of this position are performed mostly in the production area, which is wet and refrigerated (@38 degrees).
• Adaptability for changes throughout daily operation.

Are you ready to smile, apply today.