Laboratory Technician

Full Time Worker Salt Lake City, UT, US 1 Attachments

Salary Range: $33.00 To $33.00 Annually

COMPANY

DESCRIPTION:

With our pioneering organic dairy brands like Horizon Organic and Wallaby in North America, Horizon Organics Dairy has made healthy organic dairy choices for our wide range of consumers. At heart, we are creators, engaged in the making of a new kind of Food Company. We are unique in possessing both creativity and the scale not only to meet the world’s emerging needs, but to shape them, and help define the future of food.

As we experience growth, and as our portfolio of products grows, we maintain a constant focus on our environmental and social responsibilities. We pursue reductions against waste, water usage and greenhouse gas emissions throughout our operations, focusing on our plants and our company owned farms. We are also champions for food security, lending our support to national hunger relief organizations and those that operate in our local communities.

POSITION

DESCRIPTION:

Tests and inspects products at various stages of production process, maintain quality and food safety of products by performing the following duties. This position is directly reported to the Quality Supervisor
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RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Helps maintain compliance to Food Safety, FSSC, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), FSMA, Regulations, Safety, and site procedures and policies.
• Conducts start-up inspections, regular inspections, and inspections after interventions.
• Complete turn packets for each turn on the fillers.
• Equipment inspections and swabbing.
• Verification of calibrations, lot code, peroxide spray, weight check, etc.
• Verify run rules are being followed.
• Verify GMP adherence in the plant
• Ensure chemicals are fully stocked and operable e.g. foot sanitizer solution
• Food safety violations are reported and corrected
• Maintains Good Laboratory Practices (GLP’s) and Good Documentation Practices (GDP’s)
• Selects products for testing at specified stages in the production process such as incoming ingredients, bulk, or finished product; and tests for a variety of qualities assuring compliance to specifications.
• Chemical testing
• Physical testing
• Microbiological testing
• Organoleptic testing
• Tests raw milk, cream, or rework.
• Reviews certificates of inspection/quality for compliance
• Sampling for release testing
• Additional sampling for investigations
• Records and evaluates test data, alerting Quality Assurance Manager/ Supervisor to any deviations from specifications.
• Enter analysis results into databases and analyze recorded information to determine if there are any trends.
• Place finished product on “HOLD” status when results fall outside of acceptable range, investigate potential causes, and propose solutions. Assist in disposition of hold products through resampling or providing sorting instructions to production.
• Prepares necessary reagents needed for laboratory functions.
• Maintain the laboratory in a clean, safe, and orderly manner daily.
• Maintains lab equipment and supplies including calibrations and checks as assigned. Assist with troubleshooting.
• pH, Epic, scale, thermometer, etc.
• Maintain, test, and organize retains for production.
• Perform required environmental tests to ensure hygiene standards are met.
• Behave in a professional and courteous manner treating everyone in the workplace with dignity and respect.
• Actively seek out and engage other plant employees to gain additional knowledge about the plant operations.
• Actively seek out and engage plant operators assigned to your shift and team to help improve their skills.
• Establish a reputation for being open and responsive to quality related questions and plant needs.
• Work as a team and make suggestions regarding continuous improvement ideas for the site.
• Ability to…