Food Safety Quality Assurance Tech Support 2nd Shift

The Food Safety Quality Assurance Technician plays a valuable role in our organization by ensuring our programs are executed properly by providing support to our operations. This role is part of a cross-functional team that interacts daily with many departments including operations, sales, and warehouse in working together to solve problems and improve processes.

This position will specifically support the harvest and rendering departments.

• Assists with coordination with other departments concerning food safety and food quality issues, enforces the FSQA policies and procedures.
• Drives Incident and complaint investigations/responses in assigned area
• Monitor adherence to USDA/HACCP regulations for sanitation (SSOP and SPS) including pre-operational and operational sanitation and personnel practices.
• Perform audits and process inspections for sanitation, quality, food safety, and other manufacturing and FSQA processes.
• Support change management requests and implementation as well as audits, investigations, and trace exercises
• Train team members as backups or alternate shift coverage
• Verification of effectiveness of preventative measures and corrective actions
• Escalation of issues to FSQA supervisor when needed
• Micro verification, product testing and sampling as needed
• Complete projects as assigned and manage individual performance plans
• Attend meetings and support tactical on the floor FSQA tasks

• Minimum three years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence
• Must have basic knowledge of computers including Microsoft 
• Outlook and Microsoft Excel