Quality Assurance Lead - 2nd Shift
About The Position
Beyond Meat is focused on raising the bar on talent. We are dedicated to shaping an inclusive culture that drives excellence, innovation, and results by enabling talent acceleration and development, engagement, and the employee experience. The Quality Team is a matrix organization within Beyond Meat that is dedicated to creating food products that are leading the gold standard in plant-based proteins. They are looking for an outstanding individual to join the team located in Devault, PA as a Quality Assurance Lead. The QA Lead’s primary responsibility is leading the quality technician team in collecting samples from production, preparing samples, and conducting specified tests according to standard protocols. This person would lead in maintaining sample traceability from production through final product attribute result reporting. In addition to training new Quality technicians, while maintaining a clean and orderly environment.
Requirements
- Bachelor of Science degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or Biology preferred, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant work experience may be considered.
- Experience: 1 year of experience in a food and/or beverage manufacturing environment
- Must have the ability to quantitatively review technical procedures.
- Capable of providing detailed reports, general day-to-day oversight, and related correspondence.
- Strong mathematical skills
- Strong PC skills, including MS office programs
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, organizational, and problem-solving skills
Nice To Haves
- Experience as a QA Tech
- Professional Certification: HACCP Certified preferred
Responsibilities
- Prepare and conduct product attribute testing for finished products, raw materials, trial products, as well as environmental samples
- Collect daily product samples from production facilities
- Complete shift reporting, verify shift paperwork for completeness/accuracy
- Ensure QA inventory is properly maintained and supplied
- Prepare lab sample submissions and prepare samples for courier pick up or shipping to approved third party lab(s)
- Maintain sample/testing material traceability by documenting all lot numbers
- Review of standard operating procedures for the relevant QA procedures
- Train new team members as needed
- Responsible for planning and performing tests and calibrations
- Escalate issues from the production floor to the QA supervisor/Quality Assurance Manager
- Ensure inspections, audits and EMP swabbing is completed in a timely manner
- Troubleshoot QMS, label makers
- Perform additional testing as needed
- Problem Solving/Risk Assessing situations
- Prepare and test finished product, raw materials, and/or environmental samples for analysis
- Assist with shipping and receiving by reviewing COA’s, incoming raw materials and outgoing finished products
- Adhere to all facility policies concerning safety, security, and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs)
- Performs other duties, as assigned, and follows through on requests in a timely manner
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
