Quality Assurance Tech

Job Description                                                                                                 Non exempt

Title: Quality Assurance Technician

Responsibilities:

• Work hours and days assigned
• Follow all safety rules
• Enforce GMP rules
• Complete daily task as assigned

Duties:

• Monitor the facility and make recommendations for maintaining equipment and building that are less than adequate for food safety.
• Have direct communication with ingredient suppliers on as needed for deviation ingredient specification.
• Physical inspection of incoming ingredients and or monitoring the dry and frozen warehouse incoming information.
• Write rejection notification to supplier when non food contact items are unacceptable.
• Batching observations, with random weighing of the spices and watching the mixing of products.
• Monitor the lines as product is processed with weighing the subassemblies and final product, taking temperature of the fillings and final product before packaging in the final pack.
• Monitoring final product code date and the packaging to verify the correctness of the product.
• Monitor GMP’s daily to help the supervisors realize if there is use for further training of employees.
• Routinely monitor the metal detector equipment to assure of its proper functioning.
• Record freezers and coolers temperature hourly to enforce the safety of our products
• Document weekly scales standardized and quarterly calibration by an out side service
• Document weekly standardized thermometers with a certified thermometer monthly
• Do shelf-life testing of new plates and sealing materials

Essential job functions

• 1-2 years’ experience
• Bilingual (English /Spanish)
• Word, Excel or similar software knowledge
• Work hours and days assigned
• Work in production environment below 50 degrees, enter coolers as require
• Occasional bending, stooping, turning, twisting motion.
• Constant walking
• Stand up work
• Work around equipment and machinery
• Work with metal detector
• Work on wet floor, wearing slip-resistant water-proof footwear
• Good oral and written communication skills
• Good computer skills
• Other duties task and responsibilities may be assigned at any time