QA Systems Coordinator

About the Company

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery, and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents, and make an impact. Join our innovative team that’s First in Food.

Our Britt, Iowa location is an egg processing facility specializing in breaking, pasteurization, and dried egg production. More eggs are produced within a 100-mile radius of Britt than anywhere else in the world. Enjoy small-town living with friendly faces in a community you can call home.

Responsibilities

This position ensures that products meet Food Safety and Quality requirements through the implementation and monitoring of Quality Systems programs. You will mentor these programs across all facility departments while complying with Safety work rules and reinforcing Safety as a Core Value. Responsibilities include:

• Ensuring the Food Safety and Food Quality of MFI products.
• Adhering to safe work practices, following GMPs, maintaining sanitary conditions, and ensuring product quality.
• Reporting any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality, or personnel safety to management.
• Following USDA, FSIS, FDA, Customer, and MFI guidelines.
• Obtaining specialized training and certification for HACCP, PCQI, and SQF Practitioner Training.
• Using SAP to access and print product specifications, formulas, and mixing instructions.
• Assisting in training production employees on food safety and quality requirements to meet MFI standards.
• Fostering open communication and a positive attitude toward work and fellow employees.
• Reviewing Quality Systems documents and reporting abnormalities to Production Employees, FSQ Supervisor or Manager, and Production Lead, Supervisor, or Manager.
• Providing Certificates of Analysis (COAs) to customers requesting finished product test results and notifying drivers of product release (SSL Tankers only).
• Maintaining accurate and complete documentation of work performed and test results.
• Ensuring regular and consistent attendance.
• Performing other duties as assigned.
• Covering job duties and responsibilities in the absence of another qualified FSQ Technician, FSQ Supervisor, or FSQ Manager.
• Serving as a designated back-up SQF Practitioner for the facility.

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) or equivalent.
• One to three months of related experience and/or training, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos in English.
• Ability to write simple correspondence and present information effectively in one-on-one and small group situations in English.
• Proficiency in basic mathematical operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division) using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals.
• Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent, and to draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form.
• Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Basic cooking skills and organoleptic abilities.
• Self-motivated.