QA Techs/Food Safety/Records Review
Summary
Quality Assurance Technician at a food-processing plant: monitors production processes, performs product, equipment, and raw-material audits, records quality and regulatory checks, and enforces food safety under company programs plus USDA and BRC standards in a cold manufacturing environment.
Job Title: Technical Services Technician
Reports to: Technical Services Supervisor
Summary: The Quality Assurance Technician monitors production processes of the facility to ensure
all products meet company food safety and quality requirements as set forth by company policies,
customer requirements, USDA and BRC standards.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
• Complies with all food safety and quality policies, USDA regulations and BRC third party
requirements. Models and coaches these expectations to other employees.
• Ensures product meets internal and customer specifications and takes appropriate actions when a
non-compliance issue is noted.
• Conducts product audits for compliance to include (but not limited to) proper labeling, packaging,
temperature, product specifications, and weights.
• Performs and records quality checks on product and regulatory checks as specified within company
HACCP, food safety and quality programs and USDA regulations.
• Inspects equipment for cleanliness and proper working condition prior to start up and record
findings. Collects microbiological pre-op swabs.
• Conducts raw material audits to ensure incoming products are within specification before
production.
Education/Experience:
• Preferably a high school diploma or equivalent, and one (1) years’ experience in a manufacturing
setting, preferably in a food-processing environment.
• Excellent reading, communication, and organizational skills. Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and
divide units of U.S. currency, weight, volume, and distance measurements, etc.
• Must be able to prioritize projects and multitask.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos. Ability to
read and interpret documents and routine correspondence. Responds promptly and professionally to
customer needs. Gathers and analyzes information skillfully.
• Must be able to stand a minimum of eight hours and continuously lift, push, and pull. Requires the
ability to stand for the majority of the shift in a cold working condition and the use of Personal
Protective Equipment (i.e. safety equipment) such as hard hats, hair/beard nets, earplugs, etc.