Specialist Plant Quality Assurance

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Primary purpose of the position:

Provides support for the quality function as directed.

Essential Responsible Areas:

1. Responsible for maintaining a safe and secure work environment.  This includes correcting unsafe acts/conditions, facilitating monthly safety meetings, performing monthly safety inspections, and investigating accidents, as required.
2. Supports development, implementation, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of the food safety system.
3. Assures compliance for the process control system by reviewing line data and verifying data with random sampling.
4. Monitors the finished product by inspecting the quality system’s effectiveness, analyzing trends and deviations, and initiating recommendation for improvement.
5. Supports plant material and process changes by providing specialized data and analysis, capability studies, trend analysis, charting techniques, significant testing, and facilitating discussions that lead to logical and sound conclusions.
6. Acts in an advisory capacity by informing production and quality assurance management of significant process deviations.  Uses judgment in determining the significance of process deviations, initiates action to prevent production or shipment of substandard products, isolates defective products, and executes sampling plans to determine fitness for use.
7. Provides specialized lab testing service by analyzing the fitness of incoming materials, and determining the fitness to standards of finished products.
8. Calibrates test equipment and ensures that it is in good working order.
9. Initiates activity reports on special investigations, capability studies, and process deviations.
10. May perform safety and GMP audits of assigned work areas.
11. May perform personal accuracy reviews with new and existing employees to verify their understanding of product checks and their entry and retrieval of data.
12. May maintain a toolroom inventory system to determine when to order, inspects new or reworked tooling assuring conformance to specifications, and develops tooling procedures for use in cuppers.
13. May provide support for production by tagging pallets at the roller bed.
14. May perform shipping and scheduling of brewing line changes.
15. May handle outside warehouse discrepancies.
16. May tag pallets with production tickets.
17. Facilitates the installation and maintenance of established quality assurance procedures.
18. Maintains a gauge and inspection equipment control system to provide and calibrate gauges and instruments as required.  This includes the initiating of requisitions to ensure compliance with group standards.
19. Interacts with vendors and suppliers, maintains inspection reports and quality complaints to determine defect trends in materials and products, and initiates corrective action if necessary through appropriate line or staff heads.
20. Maintains reports as necessary, evaluating the quality of designated products, in conformance with established quality assurance procedures.
21. Facilitates quality assurance training and development programs.
22. Assists in the inspection or testing of various materials and products to determine compliance with specifications.
23. As customer service liaison, analyzes problems on customer site on a regular basis.
24. Initiates, reviews, masters, and follows all standard operating procedures (SOPs) for area of responsibility
25. Required to work assigned schedule or 12-hour shifts, rotating da