Quality Assurance Lead Technician

QUALITY ASSURANCE LEAD TECHNICIAN (1st Shift)

The QA Lead Technician is hands on with the day-to-day responsibilities of the department. The Lead Technician oversees all duties and activities of the Technicians on shift, which includes monitor, document and notify all Food Safety/Quality and Food Security aspects of Juice Processing, packaging stores, and Facility and Personnel to ensure that GMP’s, food regulatory and product specifications are met.

What you would be doing as a Quality Assurance Lead Technician:

Develop, train and mentor each QA Technician on your team to ensure that the company and our customer’s Food Safety and Product Quality standards are recognized, maintained and improved. The QA Tech Shift Lead must be highly interactive and strive for continuous improvement.

- Product testing at all stages of Processing and Packaging

- Lab equipment operations, maintenance and calibration

- Auditing, documenting with notification of facility sanitation & GMP’s

- Monitor scheduled titrations to check chemical levels for CIP cleaning and sanitizing compounds

- Monitor and document Brix, Color, Flavor, Micro, Processing parameters including CIP, Pasteurization records, cooler temperatures, product temperature, acid (titration), release for packaging

- Monitor finished goods- packaging and date codes, sampling, leak detection, product brix, micro, color, and flavor

- Monitor Critical Control Points (CCPs)

- Perform pre-operational visual inspections of packaging and product holding equipment

- Assist QA Manager in product traceback exercise, inventory control, ordering, stock rotation and food safety and quality concerns

- Complete, organize and review paperwork

- Cover staffing gaps and off shifts as needed

Requirements:

• Knowledge of QAM policy and procedure
• Written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with Food Regulations like Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (Juice HACCP)
• Ability to stand and walk for entirety of shift, lift up to 50 pounds and climb stairs
• Ability to perform QA Technician role for Aseptic and Fresh and Frozen lines
• Experience with microbiological testing: traditional micro plating and reading of plates 
• Independent and motivated personality to be able to perform tasks with minimal supervision