FSQ Sr Tech

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Oversees the daily review of HACCP, SSOP, and other Quality related records to assure conformance to requirements.
• Takes action when non-conformances are noted, including by not limited to: Assisting management in making initial decision if a food safety risk is present and significant for non-conformances identified; placing affected product on hold or on hazardous hold.
• Assists/conducts full investigation.
• Assists management in make final disposition on product/equipment affected. Decision based on information gathered and reviewed against USDA and FDA regulations including the FDA’s Seafood Hazards and Control Guide or other scientific studies.
• Looks for continuous improvement opportunities in programs and tasks versus performing tasks.
• Responsible for overseeing document control and system updates; Coordinates all HACCP plan and plan related paperwork updates.
• Responsible for overseeing reporting and auditing of QPE auditing and Packout auditing.
• Assists Quality Management with verification and validation by designing the studies, interpreting data and finalizing reports.
• Ensures trend analysis is completed for food safety and quality initiatives and communicates data to Management.
• Assists with implementing any action based on this analysis.
• Initiates tests, analyzes results, and finds solutions to technical problems.
• Interacts with Operations Department to ensure continuous improvement.
• Provides leadership and daily direction for shift FSQ Technicians.
• Covers daily and other than daily FSQ tasks.
• Observes production activities to assure consistency and conformance to standards, as well as providing improvement suggestions.
• Work with FSQ management to resolve any issues that arise and reduction of defects.
• Must be able to interpret testing data in correlation with production specification and make decisions based off this information.
• If assigned to the raw material lab individual may be responsible for: Raw material testing and analysis, Raw material hold management, Nonconforming Raw Material investigation, NCR creation and submission, Prep-Inspection activities.
• Maintain finished product ON HOLD database and disposition product.
• Monitors and trends all customer/consumer complaints; orchestrates corrective actions/root cause analysis and trend analysis with communication with necessary internal departments.
• Final review on all customer surveys or finished product specification forms; required to communicate and obtain/necessary required information from R&D and FSQ.
• Develop, update and maintain all finished product specifications within our internal system and any online customer databases as required.
• Oversees the Organic Program through formulation review, supplier spec review, and supplier certification review as well as to be the direct liaison with our organic certifying body.
• Carry out leadership responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree (A. A.) in a related field or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or 3 + years related quality assurance experience.
• Individual must be capable of obtaining HACCP certification within six months of hire and Implementing SQF Systems within one year.