Food Safety & QA Technician - 3rd Shift Manufacturing

Tandem Foods; Pittsburgh (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

The FSQA Technician role at Tandem Foods ensures safety, quality, and aesthetics of our products by adhering to GMP, GMPs, and BRC standards. The technician collects swab results, enters data, reviews specs, and communicates findings to operators and managers.

Maintaining a clean work area, following SOPs, and taking corrective actions when measurements drift from spec are core duties. The role supports continuous improvement in product quality and safety.

Qualifications

• Duties include collecting swab results, entering results into a database, and reviewing results to ensure specifications.
• Provide feedback to operators and managers regarding non-conforming products and packaging.
• Communicate results according to established communication methods and adhere to SOPs.

Responsibilities

• Collect swab results
• Enter results into database
• Review results to ensure compliance with specifications
• Provide feedback to operators and manufacturing managers regarding non-conforming products and packaging
• Communicate results according to established communication methods
• Ensure that assigned area is clean at all times following established cleaning and sanitation practices
• Inform Quality and Production Manager of any food safety problems
• Adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures and job instructions
• Take corrective actions when measures are out of specification
• Meet or exceed established targets
• Adhere to GMPs and the general food safety standards of BRC
• Responsible for routine cleaning and general maintenance of the workspace as assigned
• Verify all product produced by Tandem Foods is within customer specifications
• Verify production process to meet company and customer standards (Brix, Moisture, etc.)
• Perform other related duties as assigned, alerting team leaders and managers of idle time

Job description

The FSQA Technician is responsible for meeting all the Safe Quality Food Standards including quality, food safety and aesthetics of the product. The Food Safety & QA technicians follow through on set processes and ensure adherence to good manufacturing practices (GMP), food safety, BRC standards and product quality standards.

Duties And Responsibilities

• Collect swab results
• Enter results into database
• Review results to ensure compliance with specifications
• Provide feedback to operators and manufacturing managers regarding non-conforming products and packaging
• Communicate results according to established communication methods
• Ensure that assigned area is clean at all times following established cleaning and sanitation practices
• Informs Quality and Production Manager of any food safety problems
• Adhere to all Standard Operating Procedures and job instructions
• Take corrective actions when measures are out of specificationTake and document required process, quality measures
• Meet or exceed established targets
• Adhere to the company’s Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and the general food safety

standards of BRC.

• Responsible for routine cleaning and general maintenance of the workspace as assigned.
• Responsible to verify all product produced by Tandem Foods is into customer specification.
• Responsible for verifying production process to meet company and customer standards. (Brix,

Moisture, etc.)

• Perform other related duties as assigned, alerting team leaders and managers of idle time.