Quality Tech

Position Summary: Monitors production processes of the facility to ensure all products meet company quality and food safety requirements during plant operations to ensure compliance with all company, regulatory and USDA standards.

Role qualifications:

Employee will need to be able to:

• Lift and stack up to 40 – 80 pounds
• Work at a fast pace for up to 3 hours at a time
• Work in a warm, dusty environment for extended periods.
• Work in a cold, moist environment for extended periods.
• Push and/or pull heavy objects
• Tolerate the sight of continuous moving objects
• Walk up and down multiple flights of stairs multiple times daily.
• Work in all weather conditions
• Be around chemicals for extended periods
• Adheres to all safety requirements including PPE (Personal Protective Equipment), preventing, and reporting unsafe acts and conditions, Lockout-Tagout procedures and Process Safety Management related matters.
• Maintains clean and safe working environment.
• Ensures product meets internal and customer specifications and takes appropriate actions when a non-compliance is noted.
• Accurately conducts product reviews for compliance to include grading, packaging, temperature control and weights.
• Performs and accurately records quality checks on product and regulatory checks as specified within company programs and USDA regulations.
• Monitors associates' work practices and addresses any deficiencies noticed immediately while continually evaluating potential for foreign material contamination while in assigned work areas.
• Inspects equipment for cleanliness and proper working condition prior to start up and records findings.
• Monitor production employees to ensure GMP compliance and reports violations
• Other responsibilities as assigned by Supervisor

Essential Skills and Experience:

• Be dependable and honest.
• Time management: the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
• Strong team player
• Commitment to company values
• Be able to work overtime when needed.
• Attention to detail a must
• Wear employer-specified protective gear, including gloves, face/eye shields, aprons, boots, etc. (some of which to be supplied by employer).
• Exposure to chemical solution (with protective gear)
• Perform varying tasks while standing, lifting, crouching, etc. during long periods of time.
• Perform all tasks safely and in a manner that will not create or pose a direct threat to the health and/or safety of the sanitation worker or any other person.

Physical Demands and work environment: The physical and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions

of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Physical demands and work environment: Exposure primarily consists of wet and moist floors which include metal grating surfaces. May be exposed to temperatures of 28 degrees to 100 degrees Fahrenheit. May handle product 25 degrees to 50 degrees Fahrenheit. May be exposed to noise ranges of 50 db to 110 db. May be exposed to dust, feathers and all chemicals used in poultry, food, processing facility. Must wear and use protective and safety equipment required for the job as directed by the Company. Occasional exposure to carbon dioxide vapors 10ppm and chlorine less than 20 ppm. Able to stand for several hours. Work may include lifting (up to 80 lbs.), reaching, bending, pushing, extending.