Quality Technician 3rd Shift

Meiji America • York Township, PA

5d

About The Position

The primary function of a Quality Technician is to support food safety and quality through receiving storage, processing, baking, packaging, sanitation, and release for shipping. Serves as technical product, packaging, raw material, and food safety quality systems on your respective shift. Ensure proper documents are completed for regulatory, GFSI, and customer requirements. Evaluate product, conduct product testing, complete internal audits, inspect sanitation work, verify critical & preventive controls, hold non-conforming materials, participate in continuous improvement activities, and investigate food safety incidents, supplier, & customer complaints.

Requirements

• Minimum high school diploma or GED
• Need to be able to wear hearing, eye, and toe personal protective equipment.

Nice To Haves

• bachelor’s or associate degree, equivalent from two-year college or technical school
• Six months to one-year related work experience or equivalent combination of education and experience

Responsibilities

• Serve as quality technical expert of food safety & quality policy, procedure, product & process compliance.
• Lead quality program compliance during shift for activities such as internal auditing, holds of non-conforming materials, food safety inspections, swabbing (environmental, allergenic and/or ATP), and retain sample program.
• Evaluate bakery products and packaging for conformance and managing nonconformances through the hold process, including moisture testing, weighing, measuring, tasting, smelling, visual inspection, assessing physical characteristics, comparison to standard, investigation, corrections, and recording issues and events.
• Work directly with operators and plant leadership to support and guide the shift through safety & quality issues and escalate to management as appropriate.
• Verify monitoring activities throughout the plant for GMPs, CCPs, preventive controls, quality controls, and absolute safety compliance throughout the plant.
• Partner with operations leaders to ensure compliance to GMPs, food safety plan requirements, absolute safety needs, sanitation effectiveness, and records maintenance.
• Provide thorough communication to oncoming shifts and leaders.
• Perform incident investigations related to nonconforming products, raw material, supplier noncompliance, and CCP & preventive controls deviations.
• Analyzes key product and process variables/attributes to understand process capability, identify process drift, and effects on finished product quality.
• Participate in meetings as needed for root cause analysis for corrective and preventive actions, improvement projects, operations, and planning.
• Complete data entry of food safety incidents, issues on shift, documentation errors, and other records as needed.
• Review receiving, processing, production, and shipping documents for compliance to policy/ procedure.
• Provide on-the-job training of new-hire technicians, as needed.
• Maintain housekeeping of work areas and Quality Lab.
• All other duties as assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: High school or GED