Quality Assurance Technician - Seasonal

Quality Assurance Technician - Seasonal (Yuma, AZ)

Title:
Quality Assurance Technician – Yuma, AZ (Seasonal)
Salary Range: $21.00
Status:
Non-Exempt
Days/

Shifts:

1st Shift
Location:
Yuma, CA
Reports to:
Quality Assurance Supervisor/Manager

GENERAL DESCRIPTION / PRIMARY

PURPOSE:

Follow defined company quality assurance tasks and standards and report any variances. Follows predefined food safety and quality policies, procedures and instructions, forms, and checklists in the execution of daily duties. Work is routine, repetitive, and there is no latitude to alter or deviate from established food safety and quality procedures.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES AND TASKS / DUTIES OF THE POSITION:

receive Visual Inspection. Visually inspect trucks and document the condition of the trailer, refrigeration unit, and air chute. Visually inspect and document the condition of pallets.

Pulp product. Remove pallets/bins off trucks and pulp the product. This entails using and placing a calibrated thermometer into pallets/bins to get a temperature. Write down the temperature on a paper Receiving form and later transfer the information by typing it into an already established excel sheet. Done in the English language.

Micro/food safety validation. Make sure product has been released for harvest by ensuring micro testing was completed therefore releasing product for harvest. This entails accessing an already established excel file in the computer and looking up field ticket information and checking to ensure the grower is on this excel list. If grower is not on the list and/or micro testing has not been completed, send an email to Ag Ops and food safety personnel notifying them that the product is on hold.

Put product on hold until further instruction.

Pull sample (down stack). Take several samples from different locations within a group of 4-5 pallets. This includes Removing totes or boxes from pallets, weighing between 18-22 pounds, to access product for sampling. Use clear plastic bags and place approximately 2-3 pounds of raw product into the bag. Tag the pallet to denote which samples came from which segments of a pallet.

Write the following information on the plastic bag: pallet information, segment of the pallet that corresponds with the sample, and ranch and lot.

Grade/ Evaluate/ Release/ hold NAV. Evaluate samples to determine if the product is premium or non-premium. This includes visually inspecting for defects i.e., each defect is segregated into a pile, weighing each pile to determine the percentage of defect, and filling out paper forms with grower ranch lot, harvest time, defects, premium/non-premium classification, Hold status, temperature, deviation status. Enter data into already established spreadsheet.

Log into NAV and enter the classification of premium or non-premium, percentage of defects, or place on HOLD. NAV will either pass/fail based on preprogrammed parameters.

Send Hold/Evaluation Email with pictures to a predefined distribution group. Take pictures of non-premium product defects, attach to an existing email format, indicate the percentage of defects, and send email. Prepare Hold tags by writing date, time, lot, and cause on the Hold sticker. Place Hold sticker on applicable pallets.

Save Holds, and scan to Salinas. If product placed on hold per SOP, complete and unusual occurrence form and scan and email to Salinas. This is a handwritten form.

Remove product from Hold to include placing tags on pallets and releasing product in NAV.

Evaluate frozen/warm loads and determine how much of the load is salvageable and communicate with management through email.

Evaluate fallen totes/cases and packaging material and determine how much of the product is salvageable.

FDA Testing Protocols. If FDA shows up,…