Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Lab Technician (rotating shifts)

Job Purpose And Impact

The FSQR Lab Technician ensures products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. They apply basic understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems and provide technical advice and support to production operations.

Key Accountabilities

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
• Data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action, and communication regarding processing data.
• Assess process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems daily, including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, food safety, training, auditing, and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
• Train new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators, technicians, and personnel from other functional areas.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.

Qualifications

• MINIMUM: Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience
• PREFERRED: Ability to adapt and learn in a changing work environment
• Ability to anticipate, recognize, and seek process and laboratory problems, implement improvements based on the findings
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions
• Experience with email, spreadsheet, and word processing applications