Quality & Food Safety Technician (1st/3rd Shift)

Surge; Sandusky (OH); On-site; USD 23,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Surge is seeking detail-oriented Food Safety / Quality Technicians to ensure products meet food safety, quality, and customer requirements in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role involves quality inspections, food safety monitoring, documentation, testing, and production-floor audits.

The ideal candidate will have food quality, food safety, laboratory, healthcare, or medical field experience; strong attention to detail and basic math skills are required.

Qualifications

• Food safety or quality experience preferred
• Medical or healthcare field experience may be considered
• Automotive quality experience is generally not considered for this position
• Strong attention to detail
• Basic math skills
• Good organizational and time-management skills
• Ability to identify quality or food safety issues and communicate concerns promptly

Responsibilities

• Verify that products are safe and meet established quality standards
• Monitor production to ensure employees follow plant GMPs
• Verify product specifications and food safety standards are followed
• Complete required daily paperwork and quality documentation
• Communicate quality or food safety deviations to the appropriate Quality and Food Safety leadership
• Communicate with production operators and supervisors regarding quality and food safety requirements
• Perform product inspections and required laboratory work
• Conduct shipping and receiving inspections, including raw materials, dry goods, trailers, and returns
• Conduct daily SSOP, HACCP, GMP, and SQF monitoring activities
• Stop production or place product on hold when quality or food safety requirements are not being met
• Pull product samples according to customer specifications
• Perform temperature checks and equipment calibrations
• Perform testing and titrations for sanitizers such as ozone, PAA, Quat, and chlorine
• Perform product and label inspections
• Assist with quality and food safety investigations and complete required documentation

Skills

Food safety

Quality inspection

Attention to detail

Documentation

Job description

Surge is seeking detail-oriented Food Safety / Quality Technicians to ensure products meet food safety, quality, and customer requirements in a fast-paced manufacturing environment. This role involves quality inspections, food safety monitoring, documentation, testing, and production-floor audits.

The ideal candidate will have food quality, food safety, laboratory, healthcare, or medical field experience; strong attention to detail and basic math skills are required.