Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician
$35,006–$52,603 year
On-siteNorthwood Logan County, Ohio, United States
Job Summary
Monitor Food Safety & Quality Assurance support/evaluation programs and inspection/audit procedures to ensure compliance of products and processes to corporate and regulatory requirements. Track HACCP programs, sanitation standards, pest control, and foreign material control while managing product quality assurance and food defense. Assist in employee training, implement independent SQF audits, and conduct plant visits or supplier/customer communications as needed. Support plant leadership during emergencies and interact with operations, sales, and maintenance teams. Requires a valid driver's license, ability to lift up to 100 pounds, and work in a refrigerated environment with moderate noise levels.
Required Qualifications
- Valid driver's license
- Currently authorized to work in the United States
Desired Qualifications
- Formal job training in TQM principles, SPC, HACCP concepts, CFIA/FDA regulations
- Formal quality and sensory analysis training
- One to 3 years of meat and/or seafood industry experience at a federal CFIA/FDA meat and/or seafood processing plant
- Demonstrate the ability to write reports, basic business correspondence, as well as to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers
- Demonstrate the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
- Demonstrate the ability to define problems, collect data and establish facts
- Demonstrate the ability to interpret basic technical instructions
- Ability to use personal computer, lab equipment, food preparation equipment and office communication equipment
- Corrected vision required for sensory analysis to identify color, clarity
- Close and distance vision to judge GMPs
- Peripheral vision and depth perception mandatory for safety
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