Location: Columbus, GA Bakery
Work Arrangements for Quality Assurance Associate:
100% Onsite (Can be from 8,10 or 12-hour shifts)
1st Shift (6am-6pm)
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Monitor production to ensure all documentation is complete. Monitor scaling of raw materials, mixing of ingredients to ensure compliance with formula cards (i.e., correct ingredients, correct lot codes, quantities). Verify and conduct process control audits and address out of specification findings in a timely manner.
- Verify control points are being monitored and are acceptable per food safety requirements.
- Ensure product specifications, weights, color and other attributes of finished product are acceptable.
- Control out of specification products and provide recommendation of disposition.
- Monitor packaging to ensure correct labelling, date coding, and correct packaging is being followed.
- Organoleptic tests of finished goods to ensure acceptance to standards, taste, eye appeal, odor etc.
- Advise QA Manager regarding questionable product, discarding of bad product or possible stopping of production line to correct or prevent product food safety & quality issues.
- Monitor production processing and assist operators in making adjustments to processing methods during production to improve product quality & consistency.
- Monitor metal detectors and scales to ensure complete accuracy.
- Assist production employees with label printing as necessary.
- Work with production and warehouse to control, maintain, and/or improve as appropriate the handling, storage and usage of all other materials.
- Provide individual or group training to production employees on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), product specifications, SPC, production controls, formulas, visual quality inspection criteria, GMP, Food Safety procedures.
- Assist in development of SOPs by working with production operators to understand current operating procedures, identify best methods. Assist in developing HACCP/Food Safety Plans, Food Defense Plans and Global Food Safety Initiative audit schemes such as BRC.
- Participate in audits and participate in internal audits.
- Perform GMP inspection.
- Control and retain samples and associated reports.
- Conduct sampling as required by company procedures.
- Conduct inspections of equipment during preoperational inspection, changeovers and/or as required by company policies.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Requirements
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:
- Requires high school diploma, or equivalent.
- Previous experience in Quality or Food Safety in a food manufacturing environment.
- Requires flexible schedule & strong computer skills in excel and other programs.
- Must be self-disciplined, pay attention to detail, multitask, be comfortable training and be a good communicator.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:
Ability to stand, walk, kneel/squat, climb, bend and lift a maximum of 50lbs.
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Skills Required
- High school diploma or equivalent
- Previous experience in Quality or Food Safety in a food manufacturing environment
- Flexible schedule (able to work 8, 10, or 12-hour shifts)
- Strong computer skills in Excel and other programs
- Attention to detail, ability to multitask, comfortable training others, good communication skills
- Ability to stand, walk, kneel/squat, climb, bend and lift up to 50 lbs
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What We Do
Each generation of consumers leaves their mark on culture by establishing new expectations for food and the companies that make it. At The J.M. Smucker Co., it is our privilege to be at the heart of this dynamic with a portfolio that appeals to each generation of people and pets with products found in 90 percent of U.S. homes and countless restaurants. This includes a mix of iconic brands consumers have always loved such as Folgers®, Jif® and Milk-Bone® and new favorites like Café Bustelo®, Smucker’s® Uncrustables® and Rachael Ray® Nutrish®. By continuing to immerse ourselves in consumer and pet parent preferences for food, how it’s purchased and how the companies that make it should operate, we will maintain the important role we play in their lives. This will allow us to continue growing our business and the positive impact we have on all of those who count on us.
