QUALITY ASSURANCE TECH - 1st shift

Cheese Merchants Of America • Bartlett, IL

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About The Position

The Quality Control Technician is responsible for ensuring that food safety and quality assurance programs are properly implemented and maintained by following company, customer, and regulatory guidelines through auditing/inspection, product quality control, and data entry.

Requirements

• Must be able to work in cold environment.
• Must be able to sit, stand, bend for job functions.
• Must be able to lift up to 40 lbs.
• Attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently and with a team.
• Prior experience working in food manufacturing preferred.

Responsibilities

• Review all production paperwork for finished goods release.
• Complete and ensure all CCP and CQP checks are completed.
• Ensures production management is aware of deviations from requirements and coaches production employees on food safety and quality issues.
• Support pre-operational inspections.
• Monitors production staff’s adherence to GMP policies.
• Monitors production staff’s adherence in meeting product specifications.
• Monitors proper implementation of other Food Safety and Quality Programs by performing process checks, sample collection, and finished product inspection.
• Assists with trouble-shooting processing lines and provides solutions to operations that target manufacturing and food safety requirements.
• Initiate, log, and investigate quality holds.
• Monitor and ensure label compliance with regulatory and customer requirements.
• Complete environmental monitoring collection.
• Supports a safe work environment.
• Enforce color code policy.
• Supports Food Safety and Quality Assurance Manager.
• Assist with special projects as assigned.
• Perform other duties assigned.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed