Quality Technician - 3rd Shift

Quality Technician 1 – 3rd Shift (10PM – 6:30AM)

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Michael Foods, Inc. located in Norwalk, Iowa, a southern suburb in the Des Moines, Iowa metropolitan area, produces high quality precooked egg patties and various French Toast products.

This position is responsible for maintaining inspection logs and performing multiple analyses to ensure the highest quality product is produced. The role also requires compliance with safety work rules and reinforcement of safety as a core value, ensuring that all policies, procedures and activities related to food safety & quality are followed and complied with uniformly to reduce product and process variability.

• Collect product for analysis according to the MFI Internal Control Plan.
• Review quality data.
• Ensure all food safety control points (CP) and critical control points (CCP) are monitored and reviewed for compliance; address any out of specification CP/CCP.
• Report deviations to the lead, supervisors or operators for correction.
• Verify and calibrate equipment.
• Perform quality assurance SAP functions.
• Perform laboratory duties related to analysis, sampling, pre-operation and post-operation.
• Monitor product weights and review net weights on all products produced.
• Work autonomously with all departments.
• Evaluate physical attributes: code, shape of product, bake-out, sanitizer concentration check.
• Perform Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for any food safety or quality deviations and failures.
• Follow USDA, FSIS, FDA, CN, Customer and Company guidelines.
• Assume personal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthy workplace; adhere to all safety policies and procedures and incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
• Adhere to quality work practices, follow all GMPs, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained; report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety and quality.
• Ensure regulatory compliance at all times.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

• Ability to read and interpret SOPs, instructions, short correspondences and memos in English.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals; compute rate, ratio, and percent; draw and interpret bar graphs.
• Ability to apply common sense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form; deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations.
• Maintain regular and consistent attendance.
• Ability to eat eggs to perform identity testing using organoleptic skills (odor, taste, appearance).

• High school diploma or GED or equivalent.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Strong mechanical abilities.
• Wear the proper Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for the job.
• Ability to work indoors in a wet environment.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• The equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the position.
• Skill in working with computers and experience with spreadsheet and word-processing software.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to speak effectively before groups, customers/vendors or employees of the organization.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, and diagram or schedule form.
• Licenses, certificates and registrations required:
  Powered Industrial Truck (PIT) Certification, Driver’s license, LOTO, Confined Space Entry.

The pay range for this position is $20.00 to $25.00 per hour.

Seniority level:
Not Applicable.

Employment type:

Full-time. Job function:
Quality Assurance. Industry: Food and Beverage Manufacturing.

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