QC Technician (2nd shift)

Snackruptors Inc•East Hempfield Township, PA

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The QC Technician monitors product quality, documentation, and employee practices throughout the plant by performing on-the-line checks and regular department tours. The role also maintains and distributes technical production information to the production floor. The technician helps ensure manufactured products meet customer and company quality expectations and that food safety and quality processes are followed across production, packaging, sanitation, and warehouse operations. The position performs and documents quality checks, verifies employee hygiene and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), supports allergen changeovers, evaluates non-conforming and expired products, and maintains retain samples. It also requires following health and safety rules, food safety and food defense guidelines, and company policies and procedures.

Requirements

Basic math ability.
HACCP and food safety training.
Great attention to detail and accuracy, especially regarding product specifications.
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
Ability to work with minimal [the posting does not complete this qualification].
Ability to lift up to 50 pounds.
Ability to bend or twist the body.

Responsibilities

Ensure manufactured products meet company finished-product quality expectations and customer requirements.
Collaborate with a cross-functional team to ensure quality and food safety processes are followed.
Perform and document process checks in production, packaging, sanitation, and warehouse operations, including GMP, metal detection, label and coding verification, hygiene, safety, and in-process and finished-product weights.
Complete internal, external, and glass and plastic inspections, and issue work orders when required.
Complete the daily Personnel Verification Record.
Meet scheduled quality-check expectations while working in a self-paced environment.
Verify employees follow hygiene procedures and GMPs, and report deviations to appropriate supervisors.
Verify proper procedures are followed during regular, customer-specific, organic, and allergen changeovers.
Perform allergen swab verification during changeovers and assist with allergen validation as directed.
Verify process steps, required checks, and documentation are completed, including lot numbers, line checks, deviations, corrective actions, label compliance, CCP checks, and labeling of work-in-process and finished goods; report deviations to the appropriate team member.
Verify product meets food safety specifications, including appropriate employee handling.
Perform daily and weekly chemical concentration checks.
Place non-conforming product on hold using the hold-and-release process, complete documentation in the appropriate logs and ERP system, collect samples for further evaluation as needed, and report findings to the appropriate team member.
Collect samples from the first production run as requested by R&D/PLM.
Perform expired product evaluations.
Log, organize, and store retain samples in the designated storage cage, organized by date.
Perform flour tailings and flour filter checks.
Perform other assigned duties.
Follow health and safety rules and regulations, GMPs, food safety and food defense guidelines, and company policies and procedures.