The Quality Assurance Technician verifies that all raw materials, in-process product, and finished goods meet company specifications, customer requirements, and food safety and regulatory standards for frozen and refrigerated prepared meals.
This is a hands-on, floor-based role. The QA Technician is the day-to-day set of eyes on the production line: monitoring critical control points, verifying temperatures and weights, inspecting incoming ingredients, documenting results, and stopping product that does not conform. The role sits at the point where a small deviation either gets caught or becomes a hold, a customer complaint, or a recall.
The QA Technician works closely with Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, and supports the QA Manager in audit readiness, corrective action, and continuous improvement of the food safety and quality programs.
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