QA Tech (Walkers)
Summary
Food quality assurance technician (not an IT role) at Fareway Stores who monitors products for quality, safety, and legal compliance in a production facility. Day to day involves inspections, environmental sampling, sensory evaluation, audits, hold/release decisions, and record-keeping under GMP/FDA/USDA standards.
Job Function:
To ensure that the products that the company produces meet the quality, safety, and legal requirements.
Main duties and responsibilities:
· Under general direction, plan and organize daily activity of assigned area.
· Follow through on set processes and procedures to ensure compliance with good manufacturing practices (GMP), food safety, FDA, USDA requirements.
· Ensure that the work descriptions are followed.
· Responsible for monitoring, evaluating, and reporting qualitative and quantitative results of products including alerting out of compliance results.
· Assist on administering Company's quality program which may include Sensory evaluation, maintain sample retain library, internal audits, customer complaint, conduct environmental sampling, label review among others.
· Participate in raw materials, finished goods hold/release.
· Maintain production records, including storage and organization.
· Identify unsafe conditions/behaviors and take action to resolve.
· Perform post-cleaning and sanitation inspections.
· Perform other duties and tasks as assigned.
Qualifications:
· Bachelor's degree or associate in science food science preferred or equivalent experience of Minimum of two years of related work experience.
· Minimum two years of work experience in food industry.
· Knowledge of food safety industry practices and standards.
· Strong knowledge of computer applications (Microsoft Word, Excel, Power Point)
· Spanish is a plus but no required.
Physical Demands and Work Environment:
· Able to adjust the schedule as needed.
· Lifting and bending as needed. Exposure to cool/cold environment.
*EOE