Quality Assurance Technician - 3rd Shift at Vienna Beef LTD – Chicago, Illinois

Summary of Responsibilities:

Ensures the accuracy and quality of all products that are shipped from Vienna Beef by working alongside production to conduct on-the-line checks of product specifications and quality standards.

• GMP’s – Visual Inspection and enforce GMP’s throughout the facility, QA Lab Daily GMP Audit – especially packaging
• Check the Quaternary Ammonium concentration levels in the Foot Baths and Foot Foamers
• Monitors and places areas on hold if drains back up
• Monitor the sanitation requirements for maintenance repairs, equipment downtime
• Performs metal detection, check weights, and packaging/case integrity, calibrate thermometers.
• Monitors employee and machine performance during operational inspections.
• Prepares and takes samples
• Monitors the storage and transfer of packaging supplies, ensuring they meet sanitation requirements.
• Follow Hold Procedure & Quarantine process.
• Verify and conducts temperature checks through facility
• Conducts Metal detector calibration
• End of shift room release for sanitation
• Thermometer calibration and Scale calibrations
• Production Inspection
• Perform all duties that maybe assigned

Detailed Responsibilities:

QA technicians will refer to Standard Operating Procedures

Issue Escalation:

• Promptly notifies QA Manager or Vice President of Quality Assurance when quality issues arise or safety concerns.

Attitude and Attendance:

• Arrives to work at scheduled time and follows time off request procedure
• Communicates with co-workers in a professional manner
• Treats co-workers with respect at all times
• Uses teamwork with working with production throughout the day

General Responsibilities:

• Follow the facility GMP’s and help enforce them throughout the facility
• Support the efforts of the company to maintain our food safety system (SQF) and quality programs

Communication:

• Seek the guidance of your supervisor if in doubt of any circumstance or problem.
• Directly contact your supervisor an hour prior to start time if you cannot work a scheduled shift.
• Contact maintenance personnel when minor repairs to equipment are required.
• Contact maintenance personnel and supervisor when major repairs to equipment are required.

Knowledge:

• Have knowledge of all company documented Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s).
• Have knowledge of all company documented Hazardous Analysis of Critical Control Points (HACCP/SQF).
• Have knowledge of companies’ sanitation procedures and inspection process.
• Qualify and comply with companies forklift training and operation policies.
• Have knowledge of finished product specifications.

Work Environment:

The work environment characteristics described below are representative of those an employee encounters while performing

Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability needed for this role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities.

• Previous experience working in food quality.
• Bilingual - Spanish

Education:

• General high school degree, or equivalent, (e.g. GED). High school diploma is preferred

• Up to one year of post-high school training such as in a business school, community college or vocational training.

Physical Demands:

Occasional (activity is needed to perform the essential functions of the job at random intervals):

• Climbing
• Kneeling

Frequent (activity is usual and customary part of the essential functions of the job):

• Bending
• Reaching
• Lifting
• Carrying

Constant (activity is continually occurring and required to perform the essential functions of the job):

• Standing
• Walking
• Lifting