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The Quality Assurance Tech position at Kreher Family Farms is a Full-time or part-time position opportunity in the relevant field.

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Clarence, New York, 14031, United States

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Quality Assurance Tech at Kreher Family Farms

Quality Assurance Technician

Pay range: $18 - $25 per hour, depending on experience

Kreher Family Farms is looking for a Quality Assurance Technician that is familiar with food safety standards. It is the responsibility of the Quality Assurance Technician I to meet or exceed Kreher quality standards through inspecting eggs in all aspects of the egg farm operations, logging findings, and reporting unusual findings to the Director of Food Safety and Quality Assurance to ensure the customer has the best quality egg.

Company info

Kreher Family Farms is your local egg producer. We are a 3rd and 4th generation, family-owned and operated business. With a deep-rooted history in family values since 1924, our farm continues to grow. Our farm operations have expanded to include compost and fertilizer and crop productions for our hens and customers. We will never stop growing!

Our people are part of our farm family! It is their dedication and respect for one another that allows us to continue to confidently grow as a business.

We believe strongly in creating an environment in which people can continue to learn and grow professionally.

JOB RESPONSIBILTIES:

Customer Focused

Understand role in servicing the customer through efficiency and quality in duties relative to inspecting eggs.

Meet incredible customer service standards by monitoring computer information for quality issues and making sure all equipment components are working properly (i.e., scales, dirt detector, crack detector, blood detector).

Monitor cooler temperature and humidity to maintain freshness and quality of product for the customer.

Reflect a dedicated and reliable commitment to serving the customer through reliable attendance & punctuality.

Quality Driven

Prepare and send egg and feed samples for outside testing (i.e., Eggland’s Best).

Conduct water sampling and testing as needed

Monitor egg weight parameters to ensure carton and eggs match up.

Conduct monthly lab testing (Haugh units) on eggs from each house and incoming eggs; notifies Director of QA & FS of any problems.

Monitor quality, mixes, and maintain solutions for egg grader water systems (soap, defoamer, chlorine).

Complete cooler temperature checks.

Look for opportunities to eliminate re-work, waste, etc., and inform management of potential hazards.

Assist with tracking packaging quality issues.

Assist with egg quality issues and communicate with USDA inspector.

Conduct monthly thermometer calibrations.

Conduct pre-operative inspections each morning before start of the grading machine.

If pre-operative inspections show a need for follow up, communicate with the Sanitation Supervisor. Continually improved sanitation. Maintain log of inspection findings and summarize information to Processing Supervisor, as well as notify manager when USDA specifications are not met.

Partner with USDA in maintaining quality standards.

Check EB stamps for Quality. Reduce misprints; collect and record number for each day

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Thorough knowledge of egg processing and packaging.

Previous experience with Quality Assurance and Food Safety

Strong communication skills, both verbal and written

Strong organization skills.

BENEFITS:

Health, vision, and dental insurance

401k, with company match, after 1 year

80 hours PTO

Up to 3 dozen farm fresh eggs weekly!

Quality Assurance Tech at Kreher Family Farms – Clarence, New York

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