Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician - Night Shift

Job Summary

Monitor Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) support/evaluation programs and inspection/audit procedures to ensure compliance of products and processes to corporate and regulatory requirements at a Sysco Specialty Meat and/or Seafood Company.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring of FSQA programs including HACCP Program, sanitation standard operating procedures, pest control, good manufacturing practices, approved supplier program, foreign material control, plant sanitation, chemical control, product quality assurance, FSQA customer complaints, food defense and security.
• Assist in employee training of FSQA programs, policies, and procedures.
• Assist in implementation of independent FSQA audit program – SQF audits.
• Assist when necessary for product evaluations, plant visits, and supplier/customer communication to support other staff members.
• Assist as needed in any manner required during emergencies as determined by the plant President or General Manager.
• Frequent interaction with SSMC/SSSC personnel, operations, sales, transportation, maintenance, Sysco operating companies, and supplier/customer personnel at the line level.

Education

Formal job training in Total Quality Management (TQM) principles, Statistical Process Control (SPC), HACCP concepts, and CFIA/FDA regulations is beneficial. Formal quality and sensory analysis training would be helpful.

Experience

• One to three years of meat and/or seafood industry experience at a federal CFIA/FDA meat and/or seafood processing plant.
• Raw meat or seafood industry experience alone will be accepted in place of combined experience.

Professional Skills

• Ability to write reports, basic business correspondence, and effectively present information and respond to managerial questions.
• Proficiency with arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Capability to define problems, collect data, and establish facts.
• Ability to interpret basic technical instructions.
• Competence in using personal computers, laboratory equipment, food preparation equipment, and office communication equipment.

Certifications, Licenses, and Registrations

Valid driver’s license.

Physical Demands

• Regularly required to talk or hear.
• Frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
• Occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach with hands and arms, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl, and to taste or smell.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds.
• Specific vision abilities required include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• Plant audits and inspections may require lifting products up to 100 pounds and working on a moving production line, lifting cartons, and visual inspection.
• Corrected vision required for sensory analysis to identify color and clarity.
• Warehouse and plant audits also require close and distance vision to judge GMPs; peripheral vision and depth perception are mandatory for safety.

Work Environment

• Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles.
• Occasionally works near mechanical parts and in high, precarious places; occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and risk of radiation.
• Noise level is usually moderate; refrigerated environments are common.
• Plant audits/inspections and work at remote in‑transit processing facilities and Sysco operating companies involve moderate to loud noise and exposure to fumes and mechanical hazards.