Job Description

Description

Job Summary

The Quality Systems Technician is responsible for coordinating with production, maintenance, suppliers, and customers to meet or exceed quality expectations as well as ensure compliance with USDA, MDA and other relevant standards including third party audit requirements. Will manage plant HACCP, food safety, and associated programs and reports to the Quality Manager. Responsible for complying with all food safety and quality standards to produce safe and quality food.

Essential Functions: Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions.

Complying, supporting, and enforcing Food Safety Programs including:

• Basic Food Defense-Products, Facility, Food Fraud, Intentional Contamination
• HACCP Program-CCP's and Monitoring
• GMP’s Program-Personal Hygiene and Product Protection Program
• Allergens-Proper Handling
• Customer Rules of Conduct (as applicable)
• GFSI-Food Safety Rules-FDA, USDA, MDARD, BRC, FSMA
• Assist in the ongoing development, implementation, and improvement of the Quality Management system.
• Work with plant staff and management to establish, maintain, oversee, and enforce all policies and procedures of the plant, quality assurance standards and programs, safe food handling procedures and sanitation standards in order to assure compliance with company guidelines.
• Ensuring proper management and assignment of day-to-day activities related to food safety and quality including vendor approval programs, HACCP programs, GMP and quality training programs, ingredient and environmental testing programs and data analysis of key quality indicators.
• Assist in hold investigations, rework and releases and customer complaints.
• Ensure calibrations of PH, Hygiena monitors and Thermometers.
• Ensure that facilities are compliant with GMP, Food Safety and Quality Management system to meet national and international standards and customer expectations.
• Help with the line checks verifications to ensure that the team leads are performing them.
• Establish self as a business partner with production employees by actively helping them identify and solve quality opportunities.
• Assist in reviewing the finished product results, product recalls, ingredient issues and product specifications.
• Help with document maintenance, revision, review, and control.
• Assist with metal detection, incoming inspections, and sample collection.
• Help with internal micro analysis.
• Assist with ordering lab supplies.
• Ensure that employees follow good manufacturing practices (GMP) and audit review processes.
• Assist in the R&D lab with ingredient inventory, sourcing, and specification, Gemini Nutrition Software support, Label Approval, Product Fact Sheet Support, Plant Trial Preparation, customer support, sample planning/shopping and fulfilment.

Requirements

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferred.
• Minimum three years in Food Quality Assurance experience.
• HACCP certification required following hire.
• Work Keys: National Career Readiness Certificate preferred