QA Technician (Nights) Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Quality Assurance Food Technician

Summary : Monitors all quality assurance / food safety activities and makes recommendations and carries out corrections for improving Quality departmental functions. Knowledge of food quality standards and procedures is vital, with good attention to detail, strong communication skills, and logical thinking. Tests and inspects products at various stages of production and compiles and evaluates statistical data to determine and maintain quality and reliability of products.

Responsibilities

• Perform related duties and provide support to Quality Assurance Management.
• Achieve quality assurance operational objectives by contributing information and analysis to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; implement production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards; identify and resolve problems; complete audits; determine system improvements; implement change.
• Enhance department and organizational reputation by taking ownership for new and different requests; explore opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Perform tests at specified stages in the production process, test products for qualities such as temperature, defects, and code dates; record results; review records; and report findings for accuracy and completion.
• Evaluate data and write reports to validate or indicate deviations from existing standards.
• Recommend modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within equipment capability.
• Complete special projects, work with project teams, and resolve problems by examining and evaluating data and selecting corrective steps.
• Conduct quality analysis of incoming dry goods for production, verify specifications before startup and throughout production, problem-solve quality issues with production and other teams, document key metrics for data analysis, maintain calibration and logs of laboratory instruments, prepare laboratory equipment and solutions, and communicate directly with operators and production personnel.
• General analysis and sampling of production samples; collect retention samples on a shift basis.

Qualifications

Skills

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The employee is regularly required to talk or hear, stand, walk, sit, use hands, handle, or feel, and reach with hands and arms. The employee is occasionally required to stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl and may lift / move up to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

Occasionally exposed to moving mechanical parts, outside weather conditions, and energized equipment. Noise level varies by task.

Other Duties

This job description is not an exhaustive list of activities, duties or responsibilities. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

EEO

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