What are the responsibilities and job description for the Manufacturing Quality Assurance Technician - Milk Plant position at H-E-B?
Responsibilities
Job Summary: As a Manufacturing (Mfg) QA Technician I, you will provide support to the Plant to ensure quality and safety requirements are met.
Quality Assurance
Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:
Work Experience
Qualifications & Key Requirements:
Last revised: 1/1/2017
Job Summary: As a Manufacturing (Mfg) QA Technician I, you will provide support to the Plant to ensure quality and safety requirements are met.
Quality Assurance
Key Responsibilities & Essential Functions:
- Fosters a positive working environment among diverse teams
- Interacts with all plant personnel to improve quality of products produced
- Provides quality assurance to support all Mfg initiatives
- Trains production team members on safe, quality food manufacturing
- Maintains laboratory in accordance with published 6S standards
- Participates on cross-functional teams within the facility to develop basic preventive and corrective action plans for improving quality of product produced
- Captures customer / supplier feedback; uses content for continuous improvement
- Performs root cause analyses; identifies cost of lost opportunity and the reduction of variation in processes
- Demonstrates understanding of traditional quality cost categories (i.e., prevention, appraisal, internal failure, and external failure)
- Participates in failure mode effects analyses (FMEAs)
- Audits, inspects, and tests products to ensure compliance with all quality standards and HACCP plans
- Audits process controls to ensure product quality and food safety standards are within control limits and Plant standards
- Tests finished product, work-in-process, and raw materials against specifications to determine quality status, including chemical, microbial, or physical testing
- Performs floor checks to ensure control on non-conforming products; communicates findings to appropriate personnel
- Participates in warehouse audits where applicable
Work Experience
Qualifications & Key Requirements:
- 0 years of experience
- Experience or coursework in food science, quality management, or other sciences - Required
- Working familiarity with standard laboratory equipment to perform laboratory tests and exams - Required
- Working familiarity with basic statistics - Required
- Understanding of the application of the evolution of quality, quality fundamentals, and root cause analysis - Required
- Organization skills - Required
- Math skills ( , -, *, /) - Required
- Critical thinking skills - Required
- Verbal / written communication and presentation skills - Required
- PC skills, including MS Office - Required
- Bi-lingual (English - Spanish) skills a plus - Required
- Ability to learn / apply H-E-B quality and OSHA safety requirements, including behavior-based safety - Required
- A related degree or comparable formal training, certification, or work experience - Required
- Completion of H-E-B certification as an ASQ Quality Improvement Associate CQIA - Required
- Travel by car or plane with overnight stays
- Regularly lift up to 20 lbs
- Occasionally lift 20 lbs
- Work extended hours and rotating schedules
- Maneuver through the facility and perform functions of the job, with or without accommodation (standing, stooping, bending, etc.)
- Work in wet, cold, or hot, environments, depending on Plant location, where temperatures are as listed below:
- Bakery and Tortilla: 80-100 degrees F
- Floral: temperature-controlled environment that ranges from 32-42 degrees F
- Ice Cream: (-)40 to 80 degrees F; certain areas in a wet environment
- Meat: routinely 30-45 degrees F in a cold and wet environment; occasionally (-)20 or 85 degrees F in certain areas
- Milk: routinely 60-80 degrees F in a wet environment; occasionally 38 degrees F in certain areas, 110 degrees in other areas
- Snacks: temperature-controlled environment that ranges from 80-100 degrees F
Last revised: 1/1/2017