Sr Technician Factory Quality

 

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POSITION SUMMARY

 

The Sr. Quality Assurance Technician (“Sr. QA Tech”) is a primary executor of food safety culture through several analyses of raw materials, finished goods, and packaging. With the startup of the Nestlé Glendale site producing Coffee mate liquid creamer, the Sr. QA Tech will have a unique opportunity to help start up laboratories both on and off the production areas. The Sr. QA Tech will be able to grow coaching and training capabilities with starting up a new site and have ample interaction with several areas of the business to grow personal competencies. This position partners with all other areas of the manufacturing facility to ensure every bottle that goes out the door meets all Nestlé specifications and is of the highest quality our consumers expect.

 

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create a safe work environment through risk predictions and discussion amongst team in regularly scheduled operational reviews (ORs)
• Verify Nestlé Quality Assurance Center (NQAC) global methods for the overall site by evaluating local SOPs for each analysis against global methods to ensure compliance and fit-for-purpose
• Draft, finalize, and review standard operating procedures (SOPs) and create training material in digital systems to be used for future production operators and QA Techs
• Cross functionally work with other groups in order to perform problem solving analyses potentially involving quality related issues
• Train and coach current and future production operators, QA Techs/Specialists, and other relevant personnel to perform and record results for analytical processes
• Manage raw material/packaging receipt and movement within site, including but not limited to, receipt in SAP digital system, analysis of material condition, and potential additional testing
• Verify food safety and consistency of finished product through sample collection, analytical testing, and other verification activities both on and off the production floor
• Plate microbiology samples of finished product daily to evaluate food safety risk
• Record results for verification into SAP and other digital systems as needed
• Perform control checks and calibrations on analytical equipment, both on the production floor and in main laboratory spaces at a specified frequency
• Record results for verification into SAP and other digital systems as needed
• Maintain laboratory environment that is clean, orderly, and safe by following proper Nestlé policies, procedures, and techniques
• Take daily temperature and relative humidity measurements of necessary analytical and food safety areas within the lab, including but not limited to, laboratory refrigerator(s), incubator(s), oven(s), etc.
• Oversee inventory of supplies and laboratory consumables with ordering material as required, as well as upkeeping and reporting unusable equipment list
• Follow most up to date Nestlé Guidelines for Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) to ensure physical safety, as written in the established Internal Control Plan (ICP)
• Preserve equipment conditions, as specified in the ICP
• Participate in various activities to constantly evolve and update laboratory practices to ensure physical safety and accurate, precise results throughout the year (e.g., revising procedures, create optimized process flows, etc.)
• Utilize quality data to trend issues involving analytical processes or other quality related issues
• Escalate raw material issues to the appropriate group through electronic workflows and follow through with root cause analysis (RCA)
• Completion of quality and food safety internal audits