Quality Assurance Lead

Creative Food Ingredients; Town of Perry (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Creative Food Ingredients is seeking a Quality Assurance professional responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction through quality and food safety standards. This role upholds state, federal and local regulations and leads QA staff development to meet customer and business initiatives.

Responsibilities include environmental plant swabbing, monitoring oven times, inspecting packaging, QA equipment calibrations, training, testing finished products, and micro-sample collection to meet customer

Responsibilities

• Perform environmental plant swabbing.
• Monitor oven time and temperatures.
• Inspect incoming pre-printed packaging: verification of all shipments of food contact packaging.
• Perform belt/ glass & brittle plastic inspections.
• Oversee QA equipment calibrations based upon procedure manuals.
• Perform training of new QA employees and continue training of current employees.
• Perform testing of finished product and equipment.
• Perform Micro-Sample collection when needed: to ensure daily samples are collected for microanalysis in a sanitary manner and meet customer requirements.

Job description

JOB DESCRIPTION: Responsible for ensuring customer satisfaction through quality and food safety standard is being followed. Upholding state, federal and local regulations and customer expectations. Provides leadership in the development of quality staff to meet customer and business initiatives.

Primary Functions/Key Accountabilities Of This Position

• Perform environmental plant swabbing.
• Monitor oven time and temperatures.
• Inspect incoming pre-printed packaging: Verification of all shipments of food contact packaging.
• Perform belt/ glass & brittle plastic inspections.
• Works closely with Executive Director of Quality & Technical Research, Quality Assurance Manager, and Supplier Quality Manager to meet optimum plant output.
• Responsible for leadership development and strategies to strengthen succession planning within the department using performance and annual reviews.
• Establish and monitor overall plant performance for quality standards.
• Oversee QA Tech scheduling: Work with supervisors and lead on all shifts to ensure proper coverage based upon what is running.
• Perform QA equipment calibrations based upon procedure manuals.
• Perform training of new QA employees and continue training of current employees.
• Perform testing of finished product and equipment.
• Perform security checks all of three building.
• All other reasonable work requests from Supervisors and Managers.
• Perform Micro-Sample collection when needed: To ensure daily samples are collected for microanalysis in a sanitary manner and meet customer requirements.