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Food Manufacturing Quality Assurance Technician - 1st shift

Kettle Cuisine · Lynn, MA · 3 mo ago
Quality Assurance$18–$21/hrFull-time

Job Summary

The Food Manufacturing Quality Assurance Line Technician is a full-time position responsible for enforcing food safety and quality systems (HACCP, SQF, GMPs) and company policies within a food manufacturing facility.

Duties and Responsibilities

  • Testing and Inspection: Performing routine tests on the environment and food contact surfaces of processing equipment, raw materials and finished product (e.g., viscosity, allergens swabs, ATP swabs, weight, color).

  • Making Daily Checks: Conducting daily checks on the production line and verifying sanitation procedures.

  • Ensuring Compliance: Ensuring adherence to regulations such as GMP and HACCP, assisting with audits, and maintaining accurate records for traceability.

  • Corrective Actions: Investigating quality and food safety issues, managing non-conforming products, and implementing corrective actions to address deviations.

  • Risk Management: Identifying potential safety risks within the plant and ensuring appropriate corrective actions are taken to mitigate them.

  • Monitoring Personnel: Ensuring a consistent quality product is being manufactured by monitoring production personnel.

  • SQF Program: Supporting SQF program requirements by enforcing compliance on the production floor.

  • GMP Audits: Participating in GMP audits for KPI metrics.

  • Sample Retention: Helping maintain the retain samples of finished products program.

  • Process Checks: Ensuring continuous production of products consistently with established specifications.

  • Document Failures: Assisting with document failures and ensuring maintenance personnel are notified of any equipment failures.

  • Equipment Calibration: Performing process checks throughout the preparation, cooking, filling, packaging, labeling integrity, and sensory checks.

  • HACCP Critical Control Points: Monitoring HACCP critical control points.

  • Calibration: Calibrating test equipment such as thermometers, ATP units, and temperature loggers.

  • Factory GMP Standards: Driving factory GMP standards.

  • Training: Assisting with the Food Safety Training Program.

Required Skills

  • High school diploma or GED required.

  • Two to three years of relevant experience in food manufacturing.

  • Excellent follow-through and ability to reason through critical issues.

  • Good communication skills, written and oral.

  • Experience with USDA & FDA requirements.

Additional Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

  • Basic math and computer skills.

  • Basic data entry, formatting of documents, and time/temperature graphs.

Working Conditions

  • Occasional physical exertion including some lifting of objects weighing up to 25 pounds.

  • Frequent exposure to heat/cold, dust, or other factors that may require protective equipment.

Pay Range

The Food Manufacturing QA Technician base pay range is $18-21 USD/hourly. The listed salary range represents Kettle Cuisine's good faith estimate for this position and represents the minimum and maximum for new hire salaries for the Lynn, MA location only. Ranges will be reviewed on a regular basis. An employee’s rate of pay within the range is determined by their qualifications, relevant experience, and demonstrated performance over time. In addition to those factors, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer.

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