Quality Assurance Technician - Food Safety & Hygiene

## DescriptionReports to Operations Quality Assurance Manager**Job Summary:**To effectively maintain food safety according to government regulations and company standards and quality standards according to company specifications.**Office Environment: 19%** of the work is conducted in an office setting, involving time spent on computer research, project management, and communication with team members and stakeholders. Frequent participation in both in-person and virtual meetings, including project updates, strategy sessions, and presentations to management and stakeholders.**Production Environment: 80%** Regular visits to the production areas will involve exposure to machinery, noise, varying temperatures, humidity, and wet conditions.**Travel: <1%** Occasional travel for training, meetings, conferences, etc.**Schedule:** Flexible schedule, including evenings, weekends, and holidays as needed based on operational requirements.**Key Responsibilities:**1. Monitors packing weights, temperatures, label checks, sanitation, foreign material, code date, piece counts, and other line quality checks.2. Maintain quality and ensure food safety. Work with monitoring employees to improve accuracy and reliability.3. Monitors employee hygiene and sanitary practices. Daily work with employees and supervisors' online sanitation performances and employee personal habits on the floor.4. Work in the lab on sample collections and assist when needed in shipment preparations.5. Tag product or equipment to be retained or to cease operation when necessary.6. Stop any operation within the facility that presents quality, food safety, or personnel safety issue.7. Monitor proper specifications for products being produced and run label checks for specified materials, packaging, and label approvals.8. Monitor facility inspection and operations.9. Monitors traffic flow of equipment and employees. Look for incidences of possible cross-contamination and sanitation record keeping.10. Complete Listeria swabs on environmental and product contact. Understand the need for the program.11. Monitor USDA testing and QA Retain all products that are tested from the day of production.12. Load, retrieve, and report temperature probes for smokehouse temperature balancing.## Qualifications**Qualifications****:**1. High school diploma or GED required.2. Bachelor's degree in chemistry, Microbiology, or related field preferred.3. 3+ years of quality assurance experience preferable.**Working Conditions/ Physical Requirements:**1. Regular visits to production areas will involve exposure to machinery, high noise levels, varying temperatures, humidity, and wet conditions.2. Must be able to sit, stand, walk, reach, stretch, stoop, and bend for extended periods.3. Ability to work around ingredients and/or finished products containing food allergens.4. Must be able to communicate through various channels, including phone, email, face-to-face, and videoconferencing.The physical demands described in this job description are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform this job. Other duties or tasks may be assigned as required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.At Cloverdale Foods, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. The base hiring pay range for this role is between $18.00 - $22.00 per hour, and your actual base pay within that range will depend upon a variety of factors including, but not limited to, job-related knowledge, skill set, level of experience, and geographic market location.Other components of Cloverdale Foods' total compensation package include life insurance, medical, dental and vision coverage, pay-for-performance merit increases, and 401(k) with employer match, paid vacation, weekly massage reimbursement, and more.Cloverdale Foods Company offers a competitive compensation package and an excellent benefits program. For confidential consideration, please send your resume to View email address on click.appcast.io or Fax: View phone number on click.appcast.io. To comply with government recordkeeping requirements, please go to and send us a completed Online Application along with your resume/cover letter.Cloverdale Foods Company is an Affirmative Action/Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. #J-18808-Ljbffr