Quality Analyst Lead

Baldwin Richardson Foods • Macedon, NY

9h • Onsite

About The Position

Baldwin Richardson Foods is focused on enriching the flavor of life. As a full-service liquid products supplier and strategic partner to the food and beverage industry, Baldwin Richardson Foods combines its formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to produce high-quality sauces, toppings, syrups, fillings, and shelf-stable beverages for the world's most iconic Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, and food service companies. Its state-of-the-art Innovation & Culinary Center transforms trends and culinary inspiration into legendary products through an award-winning commercialization process. The company also manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson's dessert sauces and Nance's mustards/condiments in addition to producing finished goods for the private label sector. BRF maintains its headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Macedon, New York; with a Culinary Innovation Center in Westmont, Illinois; and offices and manufacturing facilities in Williamson, New York; Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Corona, California.  This role is located at our Macedon location.

Primary responsibilities of the QA Lead include leading the team of QA analysts on shift in providing timely analysis of raw materials, in-process checks, and finished products; performing inspections on equipment and facilities; providing quality data and support to management in investigations and continuous improvement initiatives.

This position will support our 3rd shift operation (Monday-Friday 12AM-8:30AM).

Requirements

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED) required.
• 3-5 years of manufacturing quality assurance experience in a highly regulated environment such as food or pharmaceutical manufacturing
• Must be able to effectively communicate information in one-on-one and small group situations
• Ability to follow and implement written or oral instructions.
• Ability to problem solve with limited information.
• Ability to analyze a situation and investigate root cause.
• Due to SQF regulations, all employees must be able to fluently read, write, and converse in the English language.

Nice To Haves

• Experience and training/certification with Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP), Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), Safe Quality Food (SQF) FDA, FSIS, ISO 9001 or USDA standards are strongly preferred.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office, ERP systems, such as SAP, and RedZone is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Approves all daily production records to verify adherence to internal programs and standards.
• Records, issues, and approves all corrective actions needed to close gaps pertaining to preventive controls or general food safety and quality requirements
• Ensures that all material data in SAP is correct and that the certificate profile for each material is set up
• Reviews and approve finished product for compliance and positive release these goods via SAP system
• Reviews all data in production floor data system for each run prior to release
• Approves, verifies, and communicates disposition of incoming raw materials
• Transacts, initiates, and communicates a Quality Hold within SAP system to block raw or finished inventory from shipment for issues observed during record review, shelf-life expiration, or as the result of notification from the production floor
• Communicates updates and final disposition of affected product and performs all supporting system transactions to release, destroy, return, or rework product on hold
• Ensures production records, internal audits, and other Quality Systems documentation is filed, stored and archived in accordance with record retention policies
• Maintains the document registries and ensures that the document controllers for each department are trained on the proper documentation format and procedure.
• Back up to the QA Analysts’ responsibilities including but not limited to equipment and facility inspections and analytical testing.

Benefits

• You’ll also receive a comprehensive benefits package including a low premium and out of pocket cost medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with company match, generous sick and vacation time, 9 paid holidays, birthday and floating holidays, volunteer time and more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED