Quality Technician (2ND 3PM-11PM)

About the role

The Quality Assurance (QA) Technician is responsible for protecting the food by conducting food safety and quality sampling, testing, and documentation to meet all regulatory, customer, and Pures Foods requirements.

• Ensure compliance with all applicable food regulations (international, national, state, and local).
• Perform sampling, testing, and documentation of procedures, records, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP).
• Maintain the safety, legality, and quality of food and its manufacturing processes.
• Meet and exceed customer requirements and reduce customer/consumer complaints.
• Report food safety and quality issues to supervisors.
• Authorized to hold product based on food safety or quality non-conformance.
• Participate in daily food evaluations to identify possible defects.
• Conduct weekly physical bakery inspections (pest control, operational methods, maintenance for food safety, sanitation, personnel practices, etc.).
• Select food items for analysis at specified production stages to evaluate compliance with specifications.
• Use instrumentation and measuring devices: thermometers, metal detectors, ray devices, calculators, scales, gauges, calipers, rulers, moisture analyzers, and ovens.
• Ensure materials are received from approved suppliers and monitor raw material supplier performance.
• Participate in Environmental Monitoring Programs (e.g., collecting swab samples, using the ATP system).
• Print finished food case labels as appropriate.
• Communicate food safety/QA issues with Production Supervisors and QA Technicians at shift change.
• Oversee Quality Technicians and manage/execute changes as needed.
• Ability to work different shifts and weekends.

Requirements

• High School Diploma; some college science courses or experience in the food industry.
• Training in HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points).
• Training in a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standard such as BRC or SQF.
• Good writing, mathematics, and critical thinking skills.
• Proficiency in computers, including spreadsheets.
• Effective work ethic and communication skills.

Work Environment and Physical Demands

• Regularly required to climb, stand, or walk for extended periods.
• Use a computer keyboard and monitor more than 25% of total work time.
• Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
• Frequently work near moving mechanical parts; occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions, wet/humid conditions, fumes, airborne particles, and extreme cold.
• Moderate to loud noise levels in the work environment.

Pay

$19–$21 hourly wage.