Burke - FSQ Technician 2nd shift

Food Safety and Quality Technician

2nd shift 2:00pm to 12:00am,  Monday to Friday + weekends as needed. 

Pay: $23.15 + 1.00 shift differential

With guidance from the FSQ Lead and FSQ Supervisor, the FSQ Technician supports the implementation and maintenance of Food Safety, Process and Quality Control Programs, including the coordination, verification, and maintenance of the Programs in the production process.  Incumbent must understand company specifications and government (USDA and FDA) requirements.  Additionally, incumbent must demonstrate the ability to enforce accept/reject criteria and follow through with corrective actions and communication relevant to rejections.  Good communication skills are required to thoroughly explain and interpret requirements and expectations for other team members, which could also include members of management.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Food Safety & Product Quality Responsibilities :
  • Incumbent generates environmental sites and organizes time to perform swabs of food and non-food contact surfaces to support the Environmental Pathogen Monitoring Program. Also generates swab sites for the environmental sampling program for non-pathogenic organisms, pre-operationally and operationally – swabs are performed daily to confirm the sanitary condition of production equipment and the environment.  This position is responsible for overseeing corrective actions and performs follow-up sampling when swab results require.
  • Must be CCP Certified to monitor and verify CCP checks (incumbent will be trained and certified if not currently a CCP certified team member).
  • Incumbent is held accountable to be knowledgeable about Food Safety program requirements relating to production operations on the raw and RTE side of the facility.  This knowledge is expected to be used to take the initiative and interpret requirements to guide production management decision-making when events involving food safety and product quality occur.  There are times when the incumbent may be the only FSQ representative in the building – if this is the case, and if he or she feels the decision being made by production or maintenance management is different than what incumbent would otherwise choose to do, a FSQ Lead Tech or member of FSQ management must be contacted and become involved in the situation. Incumbents are also responsible for independently verifying and overseeing corrective actions being performed in response to an event.  Events could include, but are not limited to:
    • Thermal Process Deviations
    • Foreign Material Incidents
    • Product Labeling and Formulation Errors
• Incumbent must have the ability to perform pre-op inspections to ensure equipment cleanliness, functionality, and adherence to quality standards prior to the start of production – this involves a thorough visual inspection of the production area, equipment, and utensils to ensure they are clean, sanitized, and free from contaminates and damage.

• Must be able to learn and maintain in depth technical knowledge about product traceability in electronic A/S400 inventory system.  This computer system demands the ability to think critically about what information is needed to know which A/S400 screens to use in order obtain information needed to define windows of implicated product.  Additionally, incumbent places appropriate product on a non-ship hold, and perform follow-up and verification steps necessary to remove product from non-ship hold, where applicable.  Although an FSQ Lead Tech and/or member of FSQ management will be involved in verifying products on hold, these tasks must be performed independently, without instruction from other team members after the incumbent is considered fully trained on the tasks.  All products placed on and removed from hold must be accompanied by communication via detailed e-mails to applicable hourly and salaried team members.

   

• Auditing and other Communication Responsibilities:

  • The FSQ Technician holds primary responsibility for performing daily GMP audits in RTE and raw production areas, correcting and retraining employees, including management, as appropriate, and notifying applicable management of violations. This involves auditing and correcting team member personal safety violations as well and includes independently resolving some problems to correct them real time.  Documentation of GMP audits requires experience with Microsoft Excel, and audits are e-mailed out to applicable team members daily.
  • Documentation Discipline: incumbent may perform in-process and final reviews of docu