Quality Technician - 2nd shift

Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products. We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact. Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food

Michael Foods, Inc. located in Klingerstown, Pennyslvania known for their ice cream socials at Klingerstown Lutheran Parish, fishing rodeo, and fireman's parade.

The hours for this position will be 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.

POSITION SUMMARY:

This position has the responsibility to comply with Safety work rules at all times, as well as an obligation to reinforce Safety as a Core Value. Ensures that all policies, procedures, and activities related to Food Safety and Quality are followed and complied with uniformly in an effort to reduce product and process variability.

The purpose of the Quality Assurance Technician is to ensure proper specifications are met and documented for all incoming ingredients and packaging materials, as well as outgoing finished products. Technicians also communicate all findings to the necessary departments. Michael Foods, its customers, and the public benefit from the work performed by technicians who help ensure safe, compliant, high-quality products.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Accountable for a safe and healthy workplace for everyone. Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health into all jobs and tasks.
• Ensure regulatory compliance at all times.
• Perform periodic in-process quality checks, including weights, dimensions, temperatures, sensory evaluations, document reviews, etc.
• Inspect incoming packaging materials and ingredients for proper labeling/coding, allergen labeling requirements, adherence to manufacturing specifications, etc.
• Perform periodic finished product checks, including case weights, case counts, packaging integrity, case coding, labeling, etc.
• Assist in the drafting, revision, and maintenance of plant standard operating procedures.
• Act as a liaison between Production, Distribution, Sanitation, Maintenance, and the Quality Department.
• Participate in plant food safety and quality inspections, in-process inspections, mock recalls, label audits, HACCP audits, and equipment calibrations as required.
• Verify proper setup of production lines at start-up and shift changes, including printer setup (coding), packaging materials, labeling, quality limits, etc.
• Verify the sanitary condition of production lines prior to start-up and after downtime requiring maintenance activity.
• Verify compliance with label-stated weights and associated regulations for all products.
• Communicate quality issues to Production and Quality Management and assist in root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions, where appropriate.
• Perform investigative environmental swabbing of critical production equipment and areas as a troubleshooting tool.
• Perform Red Zone checks and ensure compliance.
• Complete special projects related to quality improvements as assigned by the Quality Manager.
• Review documentation and communicate with Operations regarding any deficiencies identified during the review process.
• Assist in investigations related to customer concerns or other quality-related deviations to determine root causes and appropriate corrective actions.
• Assist in managing quality hold activities, including non-conforming product inventories.
• Ensure adherence to company Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), customer specifications, and internal product specifications at all times.
• Assist the Microbiology Laboratory Supervisor and Technicians as…