Food Safety / Quality Technician

Food Safety / Quality Technician – 1st & 3rd Shift

Job Summary

We are seeking detail-oriented Food Safety / Quality Technicians to help ensure products meet food safety, quality, and customer requirements in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.

This position performs quality inspections, food safety monitoring, documentation, testing, and production-floor audits. The ideal candidate will have food quality, food safety, laboratory, healthcare, or medical field experience .

Pay & Schedule

• Pay: $20.50 per hour
• 1st Shift: Available
• 3rd Shift: Available
• 3rd Shift Premium: Additional $0.60 per hour

Responsibilities

• Verify that products are safe and meet established quality standards
• Monitor production to ensure employees follow plant GMPs
• Verify product specifications and food safety standards are followed
• Complete required daily paperwork and quality documentation
• Communicate quality or food safety deviations to the appropriate Quality and Food Safety leadership
• Communicate with production operators and supervisors regarding quality and food safety requirements
• Perform product inspections and required laboratory work
• Conduct shipping and receiving inspections, including raw materials, dry goods, trailers, and returns
• Conduct daily SSOP, HACCP, GMP, and SQF monitoring activities
• Stop production or place product on hold when quality or food safety requirements are not being met
• Pull product samples according to customer specifications
• Perform temperature checks and equipment calibrations
• Perform testing and titrations for sanitizers such as ozone, PAA, Quat, and chlorine
• Perform product and label inspections
• Assist with quality and food safety investigations and complete required documentation

Qualifications

• Food quality or food safety experience preferred
• Medical or healthcare field experience may be considered
• Automotive quality experience is generally not considered for this position
• Strong attention to detail
• Basic math skills
• Good organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to identify quality or food safety issues and communicate concerns promptly

Physical Requirements

• Ability to work in variable temperatures ranging from approximately 10°F to 100°F
• Ability to occasionally lift up to 40 pounds ; assistance may be provided as needed
• Ability to work on the production floor for extended periods

Work Environment

• Approximately 90% of the position is spent on the production floor
• Approximately 10% is spent in the office, laboratory, or working on a computer
• Exposure to cold temperatures, wet floors, moving equipment, and industrial noise

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