What are the responsibilities and job description for the QA Lab Technician - Day & Swing Shifts position at Darigold?
Darigold is seeking dedicated QA Laboratory Technician II to join our Sunnyside team. As a QA Lab Tech, you will report to the QA Lab Supervisor and play a crucial role in our lab's daily operations. Your responsibilities will ensure that all quality and food safety-related tasks are completed efficiently and accurately.
What You Will Do
QA Lab Tech II is responsible for performance of department QA systems, programs, analytical testing, and microbial testing of in-process samples and finished products.
- Quality Assurance : Perform routine laboratory duties, including testing for finished and in process samples. Handle sampling, grading, product inspection, and troubleshooting
- Product Testing and Sampling : Aid in collection of samples and perform necessary testing, documentation, and manage out-of-specification notifications and retests. Transfer data into systems for product releases. Perform in-process sample collection and analysis for plant operations.
- Immediate Reporting : Notify the supervisor immediately if the product does not meet specifications. Communicate any out of spec results to QA Management & Plant Management and perform necessary duties to confirm or deny any of-specification product.
- Environmental Swabbing : Assist with maintaining environmental swabbing program, track and report results. Conduct environmental and investigative pathogen swabbing as required by program standards.
- Data Management : Accurately record and retain data from analyses. Identify trends in product testing data to identify opportunities and help perform root cause analysis for quality events.
- Equipment Calibration : Perform necessary PM & calibration duties. Run standards and calibrate equipment. Ensure testing methods meet established standards. Operate and maintain lab equipment (e.g. pH meters, scales, pipettors, incubators, and biosafety cabinets) and the laboratory overall. Focus on reliability and consistency of the entire testing process. Stock culture media, buffers, and reagents as needed.
- Inventory : collect all raw and pasteurized samples for plant inventory via milk component testing and support standardization of products manufactured.
- Adherence to SOPs : Follow Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) and Good Lab Practices (GLP).
- Data analysis : Accurately record data, maintain documentation, and prepare reports.
- Lab Support : Maintain and perform inventory for lab supplies and plant consumables. Maintain a clean and operational laboratory to support program and systems.
- Food Safety and Quality : Report food safety risks or quality issues immediately and hold at-risk products for review.
o Participate and support the plant's quality improvement plan (QIP) to drive compliance and results.
o Follow safety protocols and ensure compliance with regulatory guidelines (e.g., FDA, ISO 17025).
o Assist in identifying and troubleshooting issues with samples and / or equipment.
o Support fellow lab techs and sanitation techs as needed. Aid in training and certification for lab technicians.
o Perform verification tasks of facilities preventive controls, critical control points, and prerequisite programs to confirm compliance with regulation.
o Perform and maintain annual laboratory proficiency testing and verification of lab tasks.
What You Bring :
o Ability to type at least 40 wpm.
Nice to Have's
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Benefits of Working at Darigold
Our Commitment to Diversity
Achieving our vision to Lead Dairy Forward requires cultivating and supporting a team with varying backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. We are committed to providing a workplace based on mutual respect where all employees feel included and can bring their best and authentic selves to work every day. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and Affirmative Action Employer. We welcome all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, gender identity and expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran status, disability, marital status, creed, religion, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. As a condition of employment applicants offered a role will be required to successfully pass our pre-employment background screen, receive a negative drug screen result & confirm eligibility to work in the U.S. We participate in E-Verify - please follow the links for details, English / Spanish & view our Right to Work Statement, English / Spanish
Equal Opportunity Employer / Protected Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
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