LAB TECHNICIAN

Lab Technician

AMPI owns six Midwest-based manufacturing plants where 10 percent of the nation's American-type cheese and processed cheese is produced. The cooperative's award-winning cheese and powdered dairy products are marketed to foodservice, retail and food ingredient customers. In 2019, the co-op launched its Dinner Bell Creamery brand and accompanying Co-op Crafted promise, highlighting more than 50 years of dairy farm families partnering with skilled cheesemakers.

Essential Responsibilities:

1. All AMPI employees have an obligation to report employee safety, food safety and food quality issues to personnel of authority.
2. This position has a heightened food safety and food quality responsibilities.
3. Execute required tests on finished product according to SOPs and customer requirements.
4. Execute required test on incoming ingredients according to QMS (Quality Monitoring Scheme).
5. Responsible for daily/weekly plating, reading, calibration, sample collection, Internal Control Plan, sample preparations, etc.
6. Support investigations on improvement projects (e.g., holds, consumer complaints), helps to identify root causes, and helps to identify corrective actions and monitors for effectiveness.
7. Support training for operators to ensure process checks are accurate and timely as state in QMS.
8. Communicate out-of-specification product results to supervisor.
9. Calibrate lab equipment such as pH meter and scales, etc. according to SOP's.
10. Conduct daily routine sample analyses using lab techniques and other instrumentation following Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
11. Organize laboratory records and files. Ensures compliance to procedures and work instructions.
12. Ensures correct recording of laboratory and quality records in compliance with SOP's including storage and retrieval of records.
13. Support laboratory activities to ensure that a high quality of products, services, housekeeping, and hygiene standards are maintained and improved in laboratory and other analytical areas.
14. Supports laboratory compliance (calibration, equipment testing, etc.) to SQF and AMPI requirements.
15. Employee shall follow and carry out company policy on all required GMP, quality and food safety requirements and escalate quality or food safety findings or incidents.
16. Support execution of GMP's throughout the plant and follow safety rules and procedures.
17. Support improvement of GMP's throughout the plant and follow safety rules and procedures.
18. Support improvement initiatives (e.g., complaints, holds) for facility.
19. Other duties as assigned.

An individual in this position must be able to successfully perform the essential duties and responsibilities listed above. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position. The above list reflects the general details necessary to describe the principle and essential functions of the position and shall not be construed as the only duties that may be assigned for the position.

Education:

• High School Diploma or General Education degree (GED) required.

Benefits/Rewards:

AMPI offers a competitive starting pay, PTO, 401k, short-term disability, health, dental, vision, life insurance, flexible spending accounts, employee assistance programs and more.

Associated Milk Producers Inc. (AMPI) is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status or status as a protected veteran. Military and veterans are encouraged to apply. Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further information, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor.