Job Description

Description

The QA Technician will assure and monitor the adherence to GMPs, SOPs, Food Safety regulations, and product and customer specifications. The QA Technician will be responsible for gathering raw materials and finished good samples and performing testing to ensure that the product meets specifications. This position reports directly to the Quality Assurance Manager. This is a second shift opening.

Responsibilities:

• Incoming ingredient sampling and testing

• Organize and maintain retain samples

• Perform pre-operational inspection and verify line start-up procedures

• Environmental sampling and testing

• Monitor production processes

• Random checks for compliance with GMPs and SOPs

• Lot code verifications

• Verify and monitor CCPs

• Perform In process quality checks and AQLs

• Perform in-process testing (organoleptic, physical testing, allergen testing)

• Prepare samples for 3rd party laboratory testing

• Maintain hold and release program

• Internal GMP Auditing

• Follow up on adherence to pre-requisite programs. Verify documentation for Sanitation logs, PM logs, building cleaning logs, Pest Control logs, daily calibration verification logs, etc.

• Perform and monitor calibration verifications and perform internal calibration of lab equipment

• Assist with Customer Complaint investigations, RCA on detected non-conformances, Corrective Actions, Rework, etc.

• Initiate and assign Corrective Actions and follow up on and assist in closing outstanding Corrective Actions

• Review end-of-production paperwork

• Create Certificates of Analysis

• Assist in the maintenance and creation of specification sheets

• Train Team Members on GMP and Food Safety principles

• Ensure Food Safety, Food Defense and Security, and adherence to Current Good Manufacturing Practices.

Qualifications

Qualifications and Educational Requirements:

• High School Diploma plus 2+ years’ experience in the food industry as food tech/QA/food safety with a background in food manufacturing preferred

• Experience with Auditing in a GMP environment and ability to work in a fast-paced environment.

• Excellent computer proficiency (MS Office – Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook)

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.

• Food safety experience, with strong working knowledge of US food manufacturing including Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)’s, SOPs, HACCP, SQF, Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) readiness and compliance, auditing and inspections as well as environmental guidelines.

• Bilingual English/Spanish is a plus.

Physical Demands & Work Environment:

Frequently required sit and operate a computer, periodically required to stand; walk; use of hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance; stoop; kneel; crouch or crawl; and to talk or hear. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color, and depth vision. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate to occasionally loud. Exposure to allergens such as Soy, Wheat, Tree Nuts, Milk/Dairy, eggs etc.

At Honeyville, Inc., career development is a shared responsibility in which all employees are encouraged to develop, improve, and enhance their skills and professional growth to support our business objectives.