QA Bench Technician NV

Ken's Careers•Las Vegas, NV

11d•Onsite

About The Position

The QA Bench Technician is responsible for ensuring food safety and quality standards are met. This includes compliance with Food Safety, SQF certification, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), and maintaining a clean work environment. The role involves testing various product batches and finished goods for specific parameters, making corrections as needed, and inspecting final products for quality. The technician must also collect samples, calibrate equipment, and adhere to all food safety and security policies.

Requirements

Ability to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
Ability to stand; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; and talk or hear.
Ability to walk, reach with hands and arms, and taste or smell.
Ability to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.
Specific vision abilities required: close vision, color vision, and peripheral vision.
Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
Ability to perform tasks involving high levels of cognitive function and judgment.
Not mentally or physically impaired from any cause that can adversely affect ability to safely and competently perform the duties of the position.
Ability to take prompt and appropriate response to operating conditions.
Ability to work in an unfatigued state.
Ability to accurately gauge lengths of time and distance.
Ability to quickly store and recall instructions in one’s short term memory.
Ability to concentrate.
Ability to cope with sudden changes in surrounding and/or emergency situations and/or alarms.
Demonstrated caring, committed and concerned attitude about safety.

Responsibilities

Responsible for compliance to Food Safety, maintain SQF certification through compliance to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and maintaining good housekeeping, being inspection-ready at all times
Ensures compliance with corporate standards and systems to monitor food safety, food safety culture, quality and facility cleanliness
Test each batch for acid, salt, viscosity and color; making sure that they are in specification
Give correction to any batches that are out of specification
Test filler before each line start up
Test finished product for acid, salt, viscosity, and color every hour
Inspect labels, codes, and weights on finished products to make sure that they meet quality standard
Put products on hold that do not meet specifications
Collect samples for shelf-life and micro-plating
Calibrate acid and salt titrators daily
Producing product free of contamination
Following all Ken’s Foods Security and GMP policies
Reporting any suspicious activities anywhere in or around the plant
Inspection of work area for any possible product contamination issues on a continuous basis