Quality Assurance Technician

• Auditing and verification of sanitation performance and GMP’s including pre-operational sanitation, maintenance of ATP units and procedural compliance. Frontline support for operations including collaborative problem solving, mentoring, trouble-shooting and continuous improvement.
• Maintain laboratory chemicals, balance inventory of supplies and keep working environment in clean condition.
• Prepares (and assures accuracy of) standards, reagents, etc. needed for analyses.
• Knowledge of Food & Drug Administration (FDA) regulations.
• Will perform chemistry analysis on finished product, Product Development (PD) samples, or raw materials.
• Collect information (all pertinent facts) to make decisions or recommendations for disposition or follow up – relative to quality/food safety.
• Support Continuous Improvement Initiatives for factory metrics to enable the achievement of business objectives (i.e. customer complaint investigations/returns, foreign bodies/material reduction team).
• Promote Quality and Food Safety culture in the organization.
• Take swabs and maintain data for the weekly Environmental Monitoring Program.
• Assumes other duties as assigned by the QA Lab Supervisor, Factory Hygienist, and the QA Manager or Designee.
• Assures adherence to safety regulations.

• Good judgment and logical deductive reasoning, critical thinking, implementation and analytical skills.
• Professionalism.
• Leadership qualities to work with management and coach others when necessary.
• Speaks up and gives productive feedback.
• Can execute non routine tasks with little supervision.
• Have a deep understanding of a laboratory environment and maintenance and running of laboratory related equipment.
• Strongly attentive to details, work independent of supervision, ability to run multiple job requirements / projects (multi-task effectively) and ability to retain information.
• Computer skills Outlook, Access, Microsoft Office and internal Nestle / Minor’s systems (SAP) experience preferred.

• Note: Nespresso is not a federal contractor and does not maintain affirmative action programs