Senior Quality Assurance & Control Specialist (QA) - Farmers Branch

85C Bakery Cafe • Farmers Branch, TX

8d • $26 - $28 • Onsite

About The Position

85°C Bakery Cafe is a retail bakery chain with over 60 locations in the United States and more than 1000 worldwide, selling a variety of baked goods, coffee, tea, and desserts. We are seeking a Quality Assurance and Control Technician for our Farmers Branch Location. In this role, you will collaborate with the Chef, Supervisor, Plant Manager, QA/QC team, and other facility personnel to ensure food quality assurance and control, with a strong focus on food safety. You will be responsible for understanding and supporting daily, weekly, and monthly checklists for QAFS policies and procedures, reporting any non-compliance issues related to products, processes, or storage, and completing daily QA/QC operational checklists. You will also train production employees on various aspects of food safety and quality, including temperature control, sanitation, pest control, specifications, foreign objects, and analytical and packaging standards. Additionally, you will translate documents between English and Spanish or Vietnamese, participate in problem-solving for customer complaints and audits, conduct product evaluations, and manage retain and shelf-life samples.

Requirements

• Three (3) or more years of production in checking quality and quality control in bakery and food production.
• Bilingual (English/Spanish and or English/ Vietnamese and or English / Cambodian and or English / Chinese) in writing and speaking are highly preferred.
• Able to work in environments such as cooler, freezer, and handle hot bakery items.
• Able to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Stand and/or sit for extended periods of time.
• Need to obtain samples; may require climbing, stretching, walking, lifting, bending, carrying.
• Be able to move in narrow spaces.
• This position requires moderate physical activity.
• Employees must have sufficient strength to perform the duties and responsibilities of the position including moderate lifting (20 - 25 lbs pounds or more), walking, bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting and use of heavy machinery such as forklifts, pallet jacks, etc.
• This position requires nearly continuous standing and walking, repetitive hand motions, and reaching overhead.
• Employees may be exposed to unusual elements including extreme temperatures of coolers and blast freezers.

Nice To Haves

• Ability to work independently and prioritize tasks to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Understand and Support Daily, Weekly, Monthly checklist for QAFS policies and procedures.
• Report issues for products, process, and storage if not in non-compliance, and program deviation.
• Complete the QA /QC daily operation checklist as to in processing quality control and quality assurance reports, as food safety, microbial, sanitation, and monitoring deemed necessary.
• Follow and train production employees to address daily issues as temperature, sanitation, pest control, specifications, foreign objects, analytical and packaging specs, etc.
• Train and follow the employee training tasks regarding the principles and practices of HACCP, SOPs, SSOPs, GMPs, and pest control, sanitation, lab testing, and recall procedures.
• Translate documents English/Spanish and or English/ Vietnamese QAFS policies and procedures.
• Understand and participate in problem-solving sessions for customer complaints, 2nd or 3rd audit.
• Conduct visual, smell, and or sensory and microbiological evaluations of products with report, finished product specification report, temperature records, receiving records and products quality records.
• Arrange and organize retain samples, shelf-life sample, R&D sample, product / in process sample.
• Act as contact person if other team members is not on duty.
• Be able to read instruments, gauges, and charts.
• Be able to perform simple math calculation.
• Understand and use of a computer and Microsoft Office products.
• Read the thermometer, metric, use scales, weights, measure rulers.
• Use of Camera and upload USB or memory card to computer.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision and accident insurance, as well as company paid life and AD&D insurance.
• 401K program with a generous matching and no vesting schedule.
• Sick leave and vacation.
• Employee discount.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree