Quality Assurance Technician - 1st Shift

Summary Of Responsibilities

Ensures the accuracy and quality of all products that are shipped from Vienna Beef by working alongside production to conduct on-the-line checks of product specifications and quality standards.

• GMP’s - Visual Inspection and enforce GMP’s throughout the facility, QA Lab Daily GMP Audit - especially packaging
• Check the Quaternary Ammonium concentration levels in the Foot Baths and Foot Foamers
• Monitors and places areas on hold if drains back up
• Monitor the sanitation requirements for maintenance repairs, equipment downtime
• Performs metal detection, check weights, and packaging/case integrity, calibrate thermometers.
• Monitors employee and machine performance during operational inspections.
• Prepares and takes samples
• Monitors the storage and transfer of packaging supplies, ensuring they meet sanitation requirements.
• Follow Hold Procedure & Quarantine process.
• Verify and conducts temperature checks through facility
• Conducts Metal detector calibration
• End of shift room release for sanitation
• Thermometer calibration and Scale calibrations
• Production Inspection
• Perform all duties that maybe assigned
  
  

Detailed Responsibilities

QA technicians will refer to Standard Operating Procedures

Issue Escalation

• Promptly notifies QA Manager or Vice President of Quality Assurance when quality issues arise or safety concerns.
  
  

Attitude And Attendance

• Arrives to work at scheduled time and follows time off request procedure
• Communicates with co-workers in a professional manner
• Treats co-workers with respect at all times
• Uses teamwork with working with production throughout the day
  
  

General Responsibilities

• Follow the facility GMP’s and help enforce them throughout the facility
• Support the efforts of the company to maintain our food safety system (SQF) and quality programs
  
  

Communication

• Bilingual - Spanish
• Seek the guidance of your supervisor if in doubt of any circumstance or problem.
• Directly contact your supervisor an hour prior to start time if you cannot work a scheduled shift.
• Contact maintenance personnel when minor repairs to equipment are required.
• Contact maintenance personnel and supervisor when major repairs to equipment are required.
  
  

Knowledge

• Have knowledge of all company documented Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s).
• Have knowledge of all company documented Hazardous Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP/SQF).
• Have knowledge of companies’ sanitation procedures and inspection process.
• Qualify and comply with companies forklift training and operation policies.
• Have knowledge of finished product specifications.
• Bilingual - Spanish
  
  

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing