Quality Assurance Technician

Job title

Quality Assurance Technician (Q.A. Tech)

Reports to

Q.A. Supervisor

Job purpose

The Q.A. Tech is responsible for implementing QA policies as directed by the Q.A. Supervisor. This includes ensuring compliance across processes and systems. The scope of this role may include supervising a process, instructing employees on food safety procedures, verifying procedures are followed, testing products, and completing the necessary documentation.

Duties and responsibilities

Duties of this role maybe be one or any combination of the following:

• 20% - Ensure compliance of regulations/policies - ultimate accountability for all QA compliance across multiple existing and new product lines at the Fort McCoy Meat facility. Analyzes, reviews, interprets QA policies, regulations. Implements predefined customer and supplier standards, monitors regulatory activities, ensures plant compliance, and acts as liaison with regulatory authorities at local level.
• 10% - Perform prevention activities and issue resolution - act as customer interface, manage QA audits, respond to customer questions/complaints, proactively identify risks, take action to prevent QA issues across location.
• 10% - Develop, implement, and assess process/systems - plans and directs all QA programs and management of change, implements product specification systems, drives continuous improvement, provides input to location leaders related to base/non-base capital needs to maintain food safety leadership position in one or more locations
• 10% - Shape food safety, quality and regulatory culture/reputation - interface with managers/supervisors and represent QA; act as liaison between customer and operations to ensure standard/expectations are met, build and develop effective engaged QA workforce, strategy/tactical plans.
• 10% - People and resource management -Accountable for selection, training, development performance management; engagement for direct/indirect reports, develop/implement short range (tactical) QA plans in alignment with BU and local plans, actively participates in development of QA initiatives.
• 40% Drilling combos of product to identity the fat percentages of the outgoing product. QA will have the responsibility of each combo being the percentage the customer wants if it is not up to specifications QA will tag product and have production rework product.

Qualifications

Qualifications include:

• High School diploma, or equivalent
• Knowledge of the meat packing industry
• Ability to cut meat using saws and/or knives
• Knowledge of food safety, quality control and sanitation
• Serve Safe Certification Preferred

Working conditions

The job requires working into refrigerated and sometimes noisy conditions for several hours at a time. The use of PPE is required such as: Steel toed, rubber boots; earplugs; hard hats; goggles; metal mesh aprons; metal mesh gloves; rubber gloves; rubber protective aprons and pants; and other PPE gear as instructed for specific roles and tasks.

Physical requirements

The job requires the following minimum physical abilities: Standing for long periods of time; Ability to withstand cold and noisy environments for several hours at a time; Using hands and arms in handling and manipulating objects and equipment; Communicating verbally with supervisors or coworkers; Performing physical activities that require considerable use of arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, reaching, balancing, bending, twisting, walking, stooping, and handling of materials; Grasping objects such as meat, knives, levers and water hoses; Some tasks require lifting moderately heavy boxes, carrying them several feet, and lowering or lifting them into position on a pallet; some positions require lifting up to 50 pounds.

Direct reports

This position has no direct reports.

Purpose of this document

This Job Description is not intended to be a complete listing of all duties and is in no way an employment contract. The purpose is to give guidance and clarity of the position, overall duties, and how this role fits in with the organization as a whole.

Salary : $40,000 - $60,000