Quality Technician I - Day Shift & Night Shift

Makers Pride•Boise, ID

2d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Tech is responsible for ensuring that all elements of food safety within the Quality Monitoring Scheme are being met. Ensures that all regulatory, customer, and company quality initiatives are being met and maintained. The role involves performing quality checks on production lines, identifying and reporting discrepancies, ensuring product meets legal and customer requirements, completing paperwork, maintaining a clean work area, keeping operational information confidential, maintaining instrumentation, labeling and storing samples, following hold procedures for non-conforming materials, performing HACCP and Preventive Controls checks, assisting in test runs and new product trials, and performing other audits or inspections as required.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED required
3 months of experience as a Quality Assurance Technician
Must have good attention to detail and be able to spot defects on fast-moving production lines.
Must be able to gain a basic understanding of how different machinery operates as it relates to the quality of the product and adjustments that need to be made to correct certain conditions.
Good verbal and written communication skills.
Must be able to perform simple mathematic calculation, including working with fractions, ratios and percentages.
Must be able to maintain good interpersonal communications and work collaboratively with co-workers, employees from other departments, and superiors.
Experience with MS Office Suite is needed.
Follow all safety processes and procedures set forth by site leadership.

Nice To Haves

Post High School education preferred
1 years of experience as a QA Technician or other Technical department
Ability to speak, write, and comprehend Spanish is a plus.

Responsibilities

Perform Quality checks on production lines in a timely and accurate fashion every hour per line.
Brings discrepancies with the QMS to the attention of Supervisor or Quality Manager.
Ensure that product being produced meets all legal and customer requirements as outlined in the Bluebook for each product.
Complete paperwork in a timely and accurate fashion each day.
Perform required tasks to maintain 5-S and keep work areas clean.
Keep all information pertaining to our operations (products, customers, production details, etc.) confidential.
Maintain instrumentation and equipment in good condition and store appropriately.
Label, store, and organize samples and product retentions.
Follow Hold Procedures for all non-conforming materials or product.
Perform HACCP and Preventive Controls checks/tasks as needed.
Assist in test runs and new product trials as needed.
Perform other audits or inspections as required.
Perform other duties as required by supervisor.