Overview
Quality Assurance Technician Jobs in Los Angeles, CA at Rockenwagner Bakery
TITLE: Quality Assurance Technician
Position Purpose
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 Rockenwagner Bakery requirements.
Scope/Complexity/Supervisory Responsibilities
The QA Technician is responsible for conducting food safety and quality assurance procedures to ensure Rockenwagner Bakery is in compliance with best practices for food safety and quality. The QA Technician reports to the FS QA Manager
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
This section describes the core responsibilities of this position. Duties may vary dependent on department staffing and seasonal fluctuations.
- Responsible for meeting all applicable food regulations (international, national, state, and local)
- Responsible for complying with the NSF Food Safety Initiative
- Responsible for sampling, testing ingredients and products, and for maintaining and reviewing documentation of the Quality Management System (QMS) including 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, GMP’s and personnel practices, security, etc.)
- Selects food items for analysis at specified stages in the production process for evaluating compliance to specification
- Able to perform pre-operational inspections and to report any concerns to their Supervisor
- Able to use the following instrumentation/measuring devices
- Thermometers
- Metal detectors
- Calculators
- Scales
- Gauges
- Calipers
- Rulers
- pH meters
- Ovens * Ensures appropriate communication of food safety/QA issues with Production Supervisors and QA Technicians at shift change
- Other duties may be assigned, and QA Technician is expected to effectively manage and execute changes
Education, Technical Qualifications, Experience and Competencies Proficiency Level
Required
The education, technical qualifications, experience and competencies are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
- Effective work ethic and good communications skills
- High School Diploma, some college science courses or experience in the food industry
- Good writing, mathematics, and critical thinking skills
- Experience in computers including spreadsheets
Preferred
- Training in HACCP (Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points)
- Training in a Bloodborne Pathogens program.
Physical Requirements
The physical demands 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.
- Regularly required to climb, stand or walk for extended periods of time.
- The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds.
Work Environment
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- 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.
- The noise level in the work environment is often moderate to loud.
- Ability to work different shifts, weekends and holidays.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $23.00 – $27.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40.0 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Title: Quality Assurance Technician
Company: Rockenwagner Bakery
Location: Los Angeles, CA
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