Key Benefits:
- Hourly Wage: $22 $28 based on experience
- Shift Hours: 2nd shift: 3:55pm2:00am MTh (overtime on Fridays if needed)
- Fulltime position with full benefits package (medical dental and vision insurance)
- Profit Sharing Bonus
Responsibilities:
1st Major Area of Responsibility QA/QC Program Development and Implementation
- Collaborate with the Lead Practitioner/Quality Assurance Manager to develop and implement Food Safety SQF fundamentals and the Food Quality Plan across the facility.
- Maintain the postimplementation facility SQF system ensuring its integrity through validation and verification.
- Coordinate and participate in special projects such as studies affecting food safety or product quality trials of new products process improvements and similar work.
- Collaborate with supervisors managers and department leaders through proactive and timely communication to:
- Identify evaluate and resolve plant product safety and quality issues as they arise.
- Maintain and audit effective plant/sanitation programs
- Ensure proper equipment and plant sanitation through effective preoperational inspections.
- Review HACCP and GMP principles with new and existing employees.
- Participate in SOP/SSOP development and maintenance including annual reviews.
- Coordinate Product Quality Evaluations
2nd Major Area of Responsibility Audit/ Inspection
- Assist in the coordination of a comprehensive plant audit program including HACCP critical control points Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) plant housekeeping sanitation (COP CIP and manual cleaning) biosecurity systems and compliance with federal and state inspection agency regulations.
- Maintain and audit glass and glasslike material monitoring program.
- Participate in and support Quality Assurance Manager in regulatory inspections and/or customer audits including routine regulatory sampling of products and water supplies.
- Assist in the investigation and resolution of product contamination events.
- Assist with the investigation and resolution of customer complaints.
3rd Major Area of Responsibility Food Safety and Quality Training
- Review the following topics with new and existing employees:
- HACCP principles
- GMP principles
- Food Safety and Quality SOPs
Qualifications:
- Training or degree (B.S. ideal) in Food Science Microbiology Chemistry or related technical field or combination of equivalent work experience required
- Minimum one (1) year QA/QC experience in a manufacturing environment under HACCP USDA and/or FDA preferred
- Quality Auditor Certification preferred.
- Internal Auditing
- Organized and detail oriented
- Proficient in Microsoft Office suite basic experience with laboratory software and manufacturing data