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Lead Quality Assurance Tech.

Elior · Pearl, MS · 1 mo ago
Quality AssuranceFull-time
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for headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must not repeat job title as heading. We need to include sections based on content. We have job description with many details. We need to extract: - About the role: maybe Position Summary? Could be "About the role" heading with summary. - Responsibilities: Essential Duties And Responsibilities + Leadership Responsibilities + Authority? Could combine. - Requirements: Minimum Qualifications? Also Physical And Work Requirements? Might be separate. - Qualifications: maybe Minimum Qualifications. - Skills: maybe knowledge, abilities. - Benefits: Not mentioned. No benefits, pay, schedule specifics. So we should not include those sections. We must not include placeholder text. So only include sections with real content. We need to preserve all substantive information; do not invent or summarize away detail. Must keep details but can format as lists. We need to use
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    for prose. Thus we need to decide which parts are prose vs list. Probably better to turn duties into

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      • . Similarly for leadership responsibilities and authority maybe separate lists. Requirements: Minimum Qualifications list items: high school diploma, experience, leadership, knowledge, ability to read, attention to detail, computer skills, math, communication, HACCP/SQF training. Physical and work requirements: list items. We could combine into Requirements section with sublists? But spec says use
        • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. So we can have multiple lists. We need headings: About the role (maybe Position Summary). Responsibilities (Essential Duties And Responsibilities + Leadership Responsibilities + Authority). Requirements (Minimum Qualifications + Physical And Work Requirements). Skills maybe separate? Could embed within Requirements. But we can have Skills section for abilities like communication, computer skills, math, etc. However we might avoid duplication. Better: About the role: Position Summary paragraph. Responsibilities: list of duties (Essential Duties And Responsibilities) plus Leadership Responsibilities and Authority maybe as separate subheadings? But we only allowed headings from list; we cannot add custom headings. So we must fit within allowed headings. Could put all responsibilities under Responsibilities heading. Requirements: Minimum Qualifications. Skills: maybe knowledge and abilities (GMPs, HACCP, etc.) plus physical requirements? But physical requirements maybe under Requirements. We need to avoid creating sections with placeholder text. So we include only those with content. Thus:

          About the role

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          Responsibilities

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          Requirements

          • Minimum Qualifications: ...
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          but we need to separate items. Better: For Requirements we can list each qualification as
        • . For physical requirements also as
        • . Skills: maybe we can list abilities like "Ability to read product specifications...", "Strong attention to detail...", "Basic computer skills...", "Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations...", "Ability to communicate clearly...". Those are skills. Thus Skills section
          • Ability to read product specifications, ingredient statements, labels, production schedules, and regulatory documents.
          • ... etc. We must not repeat content. Ensure we capture all substantive info. Let's extract details. Position Summary: "The QA Technician Lead supports the Quality Assurance Manager in ensuring that all products are manufactured safely and consistently and meet company, customer, USDA, FDA, HACCP, SSOP, SQF, and regulatory requirements. This position provides daily directions to QA Technicians, reviews quality and food-safety documentation, monitors production activities, and immediately reports or addresses any food-safety or quality concerns." That's prose. Responsibilities: list from "Essential Duties And Responsibilities" and "Leadership Responsibilities" and "Authority". We'll combine. Essential Duties And Responsibilities bullet points (each sentence): - Provide daily work assignments, direction, and support to QA Technicians. - Ensure QA coverage for receiving, ingredient preparation, production, portion control, pack-out, labeling, and product release activities. - Verify that employees follow GMPs, hygiene requirements, allergen controls, SSOPs, HACCP procedures, and company policies. - Review production and QA paperwork for accuracy, completeness, proper initials, dates, times, lot codes, and corrective actions. - Verify ingredients, product components, labels, case labels, lot codes, Julian dates, use-by dates, and packaging materials before production begins. - Confirm that the correct ingredients and labels are used for each product. - Monitor portion weights, product temperatures, cook temperatures, cooling procedures, freezer temperatures, and other process-control requirements. - Perform and document pre-operational inspections before production starts. - Verify that equipment and food-contact surfaces are properly cleaned and sanitized. - Monitor metal-detector checks and other foreign-material control procedures. - Place ingredients, packaging materials, or finished products on hold when food-safety, quality, labeling, or documentation requirements are not met. - Notify the QA Manager and appropriate production personnel immediately of any food-safety or quality issue. - Assist with investigations, corrective actions, root-cause analysis, and preventive actions. - Verify that corrective actions are completed and properly documented. - Review finished-product paperwork before recommending product release. - Assist with product traceability exercises, mock recalls, actual recalls, and inventory reconciliation. - Collect environmental, finished-product, ingredient, and other required samples for laboratory testing. - Assist with customer complaints, foreign-material investigations, and product nonconformances. - Train and coach QA Technicians on inspection procedures, documentation requirements, GMPs, HACCP, SQF, allergen control, and company policies. - Communicate QA concerns and production issues during shift changes and management meetings. - Help prepare the facility and documentation for USDA, FDA, SQF, customer, and internal audits. - Maintain organized, accurate, and readily available QA records. - Perform other food-safety and quality duties assigned by the QA Manager. Leadership Responsibilities: - Serve as the primary QA contact on the production floor when the QA Manager is unavailable. - Lead by example and promote a positive food-safety culture. - Assign tasks and verify that required QA checks are completed on time. - Provide respectful coaching and document repeated performance or compliance concerns. - Communicate effectively with QA, Production, Sanitation, Maintenance, Warehouse, and Management. - Escalate serious or unresolved food-safety and quality concerns to the QA Manager. Authority: - The QA Technician Lead has the authority to: - Stop production when an immediate food safety or regulatory concern is identified. - Place affected products, ingredients, or packaging materials on hold. - Reject materials or products that do not meet approved specifications. - Require corrective action before production resumes. - Escalate unresolved issues directly to the QA Manager or senior management. We can incorporate authority as list items. Now Requirements: Minimum Qualifications: - High school diploma or GED required. - At least one year of quality assurance or food-manufacturing experience is preferred. - Previous leadership or team-lead experience preferred. - Knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, SSOPs, allergen control, food defense, traceability, and SQF requirements preferred. - Ability to read product specifications, ingredient statements, labels, production schedules, and regulatory documents. - Strong attention to detail and documentation skills. - Basic computer skills, including Microsoft Word, Excel, and electronic production or inventory systems. - Ability to perform basic mathematical calculations involving weights, temperatures, percentages, and inventory quantities. - Ability to communicate clearly and professionally with employees and management. - HACCP and SQF training preferred or must be completed as required by the company. Physical And Work Requirements: - Ability to stand and walk for extended periods. - Ability to bend, reach, and lift up to 40 pounds when required. - Ability to work in refrigerated, freezer, wet, and production environments. - Ability to wear required personal protective equipment. - Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, overtime, weekends, or additional shifts when necessary. Food-Safety Responsibility paragraph: maybe could be included under Responsibilities or separate? It's a statement: "The QA Technician Lead is responsible for supporting the manufacture of safe, legal, and quality food products. This employee must immediately report any food-safety, quality, regulatory, or employee-practice concern to management and is empowered to take appropriate action to protect consumers and the company." Could be part of Responsibilities. About Traditions and About Elior-North America: these are company description; maybe could be under About the role? But we already used About the role for position summary. Could add another paragraph under About the role? But spec says About the role heading for section headings e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, etc. So we can put company description under About the role as prose. Thus About the role will contain Position Summary + About Traditions + About Elior-North America (maybe combined). Ensure we don't repeat job title. Now Skills: we might separate abilities like reading specs, attention to detail, computer skills, math, communication. But those are already in Minimum Qualifications. To avoid duplication, we could treat Minimum Qualifications as Requirements, and Skills as separate for abilities like communication, computer skills, math, etc. But that duplicates. Better to follow spec: Use sections only when posting has real specific content. We have content for Requirements (minimum quals) and Skills (abilities). We can split: Requirements = educational/experience prerequisites; Skills = specific abilities/knowledge. Thus: Requirements: list of education/experience preferences. Skills: list of knowledge/abilities: knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, SSOPs, allergen control, food defense, traceability, SQF; ability to read specs; strong attention to detail; basic computer skills; ability to perform math calculations; ability to communicate; HACCP and SQF training. Physical requirements maybe under Requirements or separate? Could be under Requirements as well. But we need to avoid too many thin sections. Perhaps combine Requirements and Skills into one Requirements section? But spec says we can have multiple sections; we prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe we just have About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements (including qualifications, skills, physical). That would be three sections. Thus:

            About the role

            Position Summary ... About Traditions ... About Elior-North America ...

            Responsibilities

              ... all duties ...

            Requirements

              ... Minimum Qualifications ... Physical And Work Requirements ... Knowledge/abilities ...
            We must not include Benefits, Pay, Schedule sections. Now ensure we preserve all substantive info. Let's craft the HTML. We need to escape any HTML special characters? Not needed as plain text. We'll produce:

            About the role

            The QA Technician Lead supports the Quality Assurance Manager in ensuring that all products are manufactured safely and consistently and meet company, customer, USDA, FDA, HACCP, SSOP, SQF, and regulatory requirements. This position provides daily directions to QA Technicians, reviews quality and food-safety documentation, monitors production activities, and immediately reports or addresses any food-safety or quality concerns.

            About Traditions: Traditions started as a simple, frozen meal delivery service for the elderly in 2001. Now, over 20 years later, we have grown into a team of caring professionals whose experience drives an operation that serves over 300,000 meals per week. Our emphasis on quality and care has positioned us as a national leader in providing frozen meals, and our scope has grown beyond seniors as we push the boundaries of what

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