Quality Assurance Technician
Summary
Quality Assurance Technician at SafetyFresh Foods in Glendale runs HACCP and food safety programs in a food processing plant — enforcing cGMP compliance, sanitation and pest control, finished-product quality checks, complaint investigations, and staff training. Requires up to 10% travel.
OVERVIEW: Initiate, implement and enforce Quality Assurance and Food Safety programs for maintaining best quality and safe food product by managing resources, quality and food safety activities in the plant. The candidate must possess good knowledge of Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and quality control system, and basic knowledge of sanitation skills. Understands and communicates quality and food safety program and policies to promptly to Management, subordinates, peers and other managers as necessary. Possesses an ability to direct subordinates and conduct analytical practices to support quality processes and policies.
ESSENTIAL JOB RESPONSIBILITIES/FUNCTIONS:
- Manage HACCP Program execution for products
- Implement and communicate information on Food safety programs, manufacturing problems.
- Assist, as needed, on plant trials and new product launches.
- Responsible for assuring the finished product quality is consistent with specifications. Utilize the SOP’s to ensures that the plant operates in accordance with good manufacturing practices and are in compliance with federal and state regulatory policies and the products are processed per standards.
- Identify food safety and process improvement ideas for implementation.
- Implement quality control processes and procedures for evaluating and receiving food components from suppliers.
- Help as needed to investigate customer complaint issues and implement corrective action in the plant with timely responses and solutions.
- Responsible for training and development of staff and plant employees to procedures, policies, GMPs.
- Ensures that all product files are kept up to date on each product and programs.
- Identify workplace safety hazards and develop ideas and solution to correct promptly.
- Manage daily sanitation and pest control activities.
- Participate in production improvement projects.
- Coordinate with operational plan to reduce overall customer complaints on product produced on each shift.
- Ability to design data collection formats, ensure data is collected accurately and design reports that are statistically sound.
- Other assignments to be determine.
- Other duties and tasks as assigned.
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time.
- Special projects as assigned