Quality Assurance Technician

JOB SUMMARY

Assist the Quality Assurance team members in implementing, supporting & monitoring quality control plans and process control procedures, company standards, ensuring achievement of quality specifications for packaging, raw ingredients, and finished products & food safety of manufactured products.

• Administer simple measurements using simple testing/measuring equipment: weighing scale, caliper, thermometer, pH meter, refractometer; and gather information on the effectiveness of processes or procedures
• Check Certificates Of Analysis (COAs) if it conforms to specifications
• Perform Microbiological & Physico-chemical analysis as assigned
• Apply basic sensory evaluation methods & identify the tools, procedures, and principles underlying sensory evaluation
• Interpret results of sensory evaluation using descriptive & inferential statistics
• Coordinate preparation of core products for consumer & expanded tests
• Perform regular calibration & maintenance of less sensitive laboratory equipment, & general good laboratory procedures.
• Perform routine maintenance & regular calibration of less sensitive equipment
• Understand basic food processing & preservation technology associated with a particular food area.
• Identify the standard equipment in food processing & preservation of a particular food area.
• Conduct simple audit using prescribed tools, standards, and processes using basic knowledge of Good Manufacturing Program (GMP) standards
• Perform product comparative evaluation to align quality of commissary finished products.
• Monitor and segregate returns / rejects based on form & actual and facilitates possible disposal.
• Apply the concepts & philosophies of quality management and Good Manufacturing Program (GMP) standards on Quality Assurance accountabilities
• Assist in the collation of data needed for compliance reporting & ensure compliance to relevant government/quality systems standards
• Participate in ensuring applicable regulatory, customer & company requirements are met
• Perform daily Quality Assurance walk-throughs; verify & monitor current Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and food safety protocols are always followed in the facility; set example by practicing correct GMP procedures
• Monitor & verify that Critical Control Points (CCPs) and preventive controls (allergen controls, supplier controls, process controls, and sanitation controls) are in place & effectively implemented
• Collect, analyze, and release raw ingredient, work-in-process, finished product, and retention samples as required, as well as document information derived from analysis
• Carry out chemical testing & physical specification compliance testing for applicable raw ingredient, work-in-process, finished product, and retention samples; testing includes pH, brix, salinity, sensory, visual, weight, dimension, temperature checks
• Review Certificates Of Analysis (COAs) and Certificate of Compliance or Certificate of Conformity (COC) and use these as reference for recording & submission of raw ingredient, work-in-process, finished product, water, air, employee hand swabs & environmental samples to accredited labs for analysis
• Follow strictly the compliance to food safety program, quality standards, and legality of products manufactured in the facility.
• Initiate & complete the hold process for non-conforming product, raw materials, and other materials as required; follow up and complete disposition when determined
• Assist in investigating non-conformances & complaints through root cause analysis & feedback management
• Monitor corrective & preventive actions are effectively implemented to prevent occurrence & recurrence of deviations
• Perform sanitation efficacy monitoring & allergen testing in the facility, such as swabbing & visual inspections
• Perform pre-operational inspections (monitoring for food safety & quality)
• Responsible for the calibration of the metal detection system & ensure equipment is in top performance
• Establish quality assurance related SDS library
• Inspect pest control devices & report findings to the QA team
• Keep records of all facility analytical results; ensure the good documentation practices are followed; immediately report results discovered to be out of specification to the Quality Assurance Supervisor and/ or the Quality Assurance Manager; provide documented reports (including tracking & reporting data trends) of analytical results to the QA team
• Monitor the availability of the needed QA laboratory supplies
• Assist with regulatory & independent inspections & audits

• Prepare periodic status/management reports related to the Quality Assurance & other reports that maybe required by QA Manager
• Maybe assigned as project manager or team lead of new & existing programs/projects related to quality assurance
• Seek to build/enhance professional competence, knowledge & skills necessary for the satisfactory performance of all assigned responsibilities
• Perform other job/task or quality assurance expertise related assignments as assigned by…