ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES

The Quality Assurance (QA) Technician has the primary responsibility for protecting the food by conducting food safety and quality sampling, testing, and documentation to meet all regulatory, customer and Pures Foods requirements.

The QA Technician is responsible for conducting food safety and quality assurance procedures to ensure

Pures Food Specialties, LLC is in compliance with best practices for food safety and quality. 

The QA Technician reports to the QA Manager.

• Responsible for meeting all applicable food regulations (international, national, state, and local)

• Responsible for sampling, testing, and documentation of the procedures, records, Good

Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP)

• Works to maintain the safety, legality and quality of each food and the processes used in their

manufacture.

• Responsible for meeting and exceeding customer requirements

• Works to reduce customer/consumer complaints for foods manufactured on site

• Reports food safety and quality issues to their supervisor

• Authorized to hold product based on food safety or quality non-conformance

• Participates in daily food evaluation to identify possible defects

• Participates in physical bakery inspections on a weekly basis on each area (pest control,

operational methods, maintenance for food safety, sanitation, personnel practices, etc.)

• Selects food items for analysis at specified stages in the production process for

evaluating compliance to specification

• Able to use the following instrumentation/measuring devices:

 Thermometers, Metal detectors, X-ray devices, Calculators, Scales, Gauges, Calipers, Rulers, 

Moisture analyzers, Ovens

• Responsible for assuring materials are received from approved suppliers and

conducts raw material supplier performance monitoring

• Participates in the Environmental Monitoring Programs (i.e., collecting swab

samples, using the ATP system)

• Able to print finished food case labels (as appropriate to the bakery or kitchen)

• Ensures appropriate communication of food safety/QA issues with Production

Supervisors and QA Technicians at shift change

PREFERRED SKILLS QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level

• Effective work ethic and good communications skills

• High School Diploma, some college science courses or experience in the food industry

• Training in HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points)

• Training in a Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) standard such as BRC or SQF

• Good writing, mathematics, and critical thinking skills, computer experience including spreadsheets

• Regularly required to climb, stand, or walk for extended periods of time.

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works near moving

mechanical parts and is occasionally exposed outside weather conditions, wet and/or humid

conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, and extreme cold.

• Ability to work different shifts and weekend