Quality Assurance Assistant Manager- Night Shift

Job Type Full-time Description

Lyons Magnus leads the food industry with creativity and innovation, crafting top-quality products across all manufacturing phases, from raw materials to marketing. With over 2000 diverse items for industrial ingredient and food service sectors, Lyons caters to leading restaurant chains nationally and internationally.

At Lyons, our diverse and talented staff is the heart of our organization. We foster a thriving work environment where employees are engaged in shaping both the company's and their own future.

The position requires an understanding of team leadership, problem solving, quality principles, and technology. Operationally including but not limited to quality and safety assurance of all products, plant and equipment capabilities, accuracy of formulations, GMPs, HACCP guidelines and technical leadership. In the absence of the Quality Assurance Supervisor, the Director or Quality Manager will assume the below responsibilities.

Pay Range : $75,000 - $92,000 per year + Bonus

Hours : 8 : 00 pm - 6 : 00 am

Schedule : Monday - Friday (Must be willing to work weekends.)

Location : Fresno, CA

Travel Requirements : None

Work Environment Available : On-site

Requirements

Core Responsibilities :

• Supervise their assigned Quality Assurance Technicians to ensure that batches are tested as prescribed in the formulas, proper techniques-SOPs and best practices are applied to achieve compliance to product specifications.
• Support all QA functions on their shifts., such as batch adjustments for all processing lines, processing line checks and verifications including brix, viscosity, pH, and any other analytical analysis as required by a customer or formula.
• Verify all performance metrics and SOPs are met or exceeded, with a focus on customer expectations.
• Ensure that process control checklists, as developed, are filled out completely by all operators
• Review and investigate Quality deviations to identify root cause and preventative actions.
• Review all Quality and food safety checks in Red Zone for accuracy and completeness within 72 hours of checks being completed or documented. Follow up accordingly with personnel or escalation.
• Support in the creation of training materials; SOPs, VWIs and OPLs for the successful implementation and adherence to company, customer, SQF, and regulatory food safety and quality requirements.
• Support the management and development of employee skills matrix and their respective development plans.
• Ensure all laboratory equipment and supporting operations measuring devices are calibrated, verified as scheduled and functioning as designed. Troubleshoot and or escalate to vendors for effective repair or replacement.
• Ensure customer product sampling is collected and prepared for shipment to customer as requested.
• Continuously improve processes with regards to defect reduction and the support in management of customer complaint investigations and record review.
• Primary owner of root cause analysis and problem solving for all QA / FS related incidents on the off shifts.
• Managerial duties as prescribed by Director or Quality Assurance Manager.

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