Quality Technician

Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

PA Lancaster

Job Type:

Quality Assurance

Job Posting Title:

Quality Technician

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

 

What You Gain:

• Competitive compensation and benefits program
• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs
• Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities
• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people 
• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth
• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to your team through our employee recognition programs

Job Description:

Job Description

Quality Technician

Lancaster, PA

About the Role:

• Maintains production by operating packing machines. This position is responsible for performing of their respective duties to meet

• Performs the day-to-day monitoring, testing and documentation to assure that all processes and practices comply with SQF standards for Food Safety and Quality, as well as other federal regulations and directives in food production.  Actively use SAP and Infinity to enter in lab data.

• Trouble shoot problems and work with operations to correct. Performs record reviews. Proficient writing skills to detail quality related activities. Assists with special projects.

• A focus on standards, regulations and practices related to food safety and food quality and environmental safety is priority.

• All procedures and practices used are grounded in standards, regulations and laws addressing occupational safety (OSHA), building and electrical codes, and food safety and food quality (FDA) in addition to environmental safety (EPA) in accordance with Safe Quality Food (SQF) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Responsibilities:

• Assure that quality assurance standards and documents are communicated and enforced by conducting daily inspections

• Performs environmental swabbing of production equipment and environment with analysis of results

• Prepares written documents describing analysis techniques and test results; writes SOP's and other quality documents and reports

• Communicate with all levels of the organization in review of test results, including written and verbal forms

• Enters quality-related work orders into SAP

• Gather special samples for additional incubation and defects audits as directed

• Provide support for sample gathering and data recording for plant trials

• Perform audits to verify compliance with established SOP documentation, GMP's, HACCP and Safe Quality Food {SQF) efforts

• Assists with the coordination, performance, and documentation remediation of product on hold

• Reviews regulatory documentation for product release (i.e., record review)

• Maintains inventory of materials related to microbiological testing and coordinates shipments of samples

• Participates and leads process improvement projects

• Determines SAP usage decisions on bulk deliveries

• Updates sampling plans

• Maintains product specifications documentation for production

• Monitor the HACCP Program and processes, reflecting a focus on continuous improvement with the customer complaint process and the product complaint process, including investigation, analysis, follow up, documentation, trending, and routine internal reporting to leadership.

Important Details

• This role works 12-hour shifts from 6:00 am to 6:00 pm

• Overtime is mandatory

• Pay rate is $21.25 per hour

About You:

You’ll fit right in if you have:

• High School, technical