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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