ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Conducts daily quality and food safety checks to ensure compliance with customer requirements, product specifications and regulatory requirements.
• Conducts post-cleaning verification, pre-operational inspection of equipment and facilities and line clearance.
• Conducts product shelf-life analysis and maintains sample inventory.
• Collects environmental swabs and prepares samples for 3rd party lab analysis.
• Reports all product nonconformities and processing issues to Quality and Plant Management, as it relates to product quality and/or food safety.
• Performs computer data entry and statistical analysis of Quality KPI’s.
• Ensures compliance to regulatory requirements, SQF, HACCP and GMP activities at all levels of operation.
• Helps maintaining quality manuals/SOPs, production/processing forms and records to meet established standards per SQF system.
• Participates in internal food safety audits.
• Other jobs as assigned by the Quality Management.

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE

• Associate degree in science/work experience equivalent.
• At least one-year experience in quality role in food manufacturing environment.
• HACCP and/or PCQI certification is a plus
• Lab experience preferred, but not required.
• Entry-level candidates can be considered.