Quality Assurance (QA) Technician
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Summary
Onsite QA Technician at Olymel's Red Deer, Alberta meat-processing plant: monitors food safety and quality on the production floor — GMPs, CCPs (carcass temps, pre-shipment review), sanitation, packaging, and temperature checks — while completing HACCP/SQF paperwork and reporting findings to QA management.
What You Bring to the Role:
- Food safety, food science or microbiology training, or previous experience QA
Responsibilities:
- Monitoring of GMPs on production floors, storage, and welfare areas
- Monitoring of raw materials and finished products (i.e. ground, boneless, and bone-in products)
- Management and assessment of returns, damages, and products to be reworked
- Monitoring of new product specs and packaging
- Monitoring of packaging materials
- Monitoring of product identification
- Verification and Monitoring of CCPs (carcass temps, and pre-shipment review)
- Verification of sanitation on the production floors storage and welfare areas
- Conducts pre-operational inspections
- Monitoring of carcass, product, and room temperatures
- Monitoring of equipment that is temperature sensitive (shrink and CO2 tunnels)
- Monitoring of shipping docks and trailers
- Monitoring of metal detectors and X-ray machines
- Monitoring of denaturing areas
- Monitoring of receiving of supplies
- Monitor sanitizer temperatures
- Complete HACCP, SQF, and quality-related paperwork on time and accurately (paperless documents and paper documents)
- Participate in meetings/ training of employees
- Work with PC Foreman to ensure food safety, Gluten-Free, and quality standards, as well as expectations are always met.
- Report to QA Manager and PC QA Coordinator on daily findings
- Other duties as assigned by the QA Manager and QA Coordinators.
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