Quality Assurance Lead 1st Shift

WESTERN SMOKEHOUSE PARTNERS•Mexico, MO

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Assurance Lead maintains and checks quality procedures relevant to the production process while keeping accurate records for traceability and product quality. The position follows direction from the Quality Assurance Manager and helps ensure production meets quality and food-safety standards.

Requirements

Formal Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) training.
Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.
General knowledge of computers and calculators.
General knowledge of completing records and paperwork.
Willingness to learn computer traceability and inventory programs.

Responsibilities

Enforce policies and procedures for each production area.
Assist the Quality Assurance Manager with pre-operational checks and procedures.
Oversee quality checks to ensure product excellence.
Verify production information, including ingredients, water activity, pH, rack tags, labels, boxes, caddies, and machine documentation check sheets.
Contribute information and analysis to quality assurance plans and reviews, prepare action plans, and support production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards.
Identify and resolve problems within the production process.
Assist with audits to verify the effectiveness of food-safety and quality systems.
Develop quality assurance plans by conducting hazard analyses, identifying critical control points (CCPs), and identifying preventive measures.
Help establish critical limits, monitoring procedures, corrective actions, and verification procedures.
Validate quality processes by establishing product specifications and quality attributes, measuring production, documenting evidence, determining operational and performance qualification, and writing and updating quality assurance procedures.
Help complete audits and investigate customer complaints to maintain and improve product quality.
Prepare quality documentation and reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends, including failed processes, stability studies, recalls, corrective actions, and re-validations.
Maintain, check, and oversee the facility’s pest-control program and equipment.
Use formal HACCP training to administer company training, conduct internal audits, and provide refresher training.
Maintain and store documents.
Verify label information to ensure quality production runs.
Follow SOPs, GMPs, and FDA regulations.