Quality Assurance Technician (QA Tech)

Fort McCoy Meat LLC • Fort McCoy, FL

12d • Onsite

About The Position

The Q.A. Tech is responsible for implementing QA policies as directed by the Q.A. Supervisor. This includes ensuring compliance across processes and systems. The scope of this role may include supervising a process, instructing employees on food safety procedures, verifying procedures are followed, testing products, and completing the necessary documentation.
Duties of this role maybe be one or any combination of the following:
20% - Ensure compliance of regulations/policies - ultimate accountability for all QA compliance across multiple existing and new product lines at the Fort McCoy Meat facility. Analyzes, reviews, interprets QA policies, regulations. Implements predefined customer and supplier standards, monitors regulatory activities, ensures plant compliance, and acts as liaison with regulatory authorities at local level.
10% - Perform prevention activities and issue resolution - act as customer interface, manage QA audits, respond to customer questions/complaints, proactively identify risks, take action to prevent QA issues across location.
10% - Develop, implement, and assess process/systems - plans and directs all QA programs and management of change, implements product specification systems, drives continuous improvement, provides input to location leaders related to base/non-base capital needs to maintain food safety leadership position in one or more locations
10% - Shape food safety, quality and regulatory culture/reputation - interface with managers/supervisors and represent QA; act as liaison between customer and operations to ensure standard/expectations are met, build and develop effective engaged QA workforce, strategy/tactical plans.
10% - People and resource management -Accountable for selection, training, development performance management; engagement for direct/indirect reports, develop/implement short range (tactical) QA plans in alignment with BU and local plans, actively participates in development of QA initiatives.
40% Drilling combos of product to identity the fat percentages of the outgoing product. QA will have the responsibility of each combo being the percentage the customer wants if it is not up to specifications QA will tag product and have production rework product.

Requirements

• High School diploma, or equivalent
• Knowledge of the meat packing industry
• Ability to cut meat using saws and/or knives
• Knowledge of food safety, quality control and sanitation

Nice To Haves

• Serve Safe Certification Preferred

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance of regulations/policies
• Perform prevention activities and issue resolution
• Develop, implement, and assess process/systems
• Shape food safety, quality and regulatory culture/reputation
• People and resource management
• Drilling combos of product to identity the fat percentages of the outgoing product. QA will have the responsibility of each combo being the percentage the customer wants if it is not up to specifications QA will tag product and have production rework product.

What This Job Offers

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