$52,000 – $60,000Full TimeEN
Wage: $26-30 per hour, depending on experience
Shift: Monday-Friday, 8am-4:30pm, Overtime as needed, with rotating weekends
Days/Hours may change depending on company needs
Ideal Candidate Criteria: Responsible for developing, administering, and maintaining applicable Food Safety Programs and Policies; implementation and continuous improvement of food safety focused programs including but not limited to Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s), SQF, HACCP, and SSOP’s. Interacts and guides employees at the direction of the Plant Manager.
Job Duties:
• Responsible for establishing, implementing and directing QC/ Food safety efforts to ensure compliance with legal regulations and quality standards.
• Develop, initiate and improve processes as required or directed.
• Work closely with Quality Control Manager, and production employees to ensure conformance to company standards.
• Verify critical control point procedures and parameters for completion as per Established Food Safety Program. Review and edit SSOP’s, GMP’s, and HACCP plans as needed.
• Verify sanitation procedures through pre-operational inspection, ATP and microbial swab analysis.
• Conduct monthly facility internal inspections/audits and act as main contact for third party audits.
• Verify process procedures to ensure compliance of finished product and raw materials to established specifications.
• Perform raw ingredient and finished product evaluation to ensure compliance to current specifications.
• Develop and update raw material specifications using supplier documentation and enforce quality standards.
• Manage all food safety and quality-related functions at the manufacturing facility.
• Oversee and control all plant documentation and assume leadership role to ensure a safe work environment that efficiently manufactures highest quality products per customer specifications.
• As an SQF (Safe Quality Food) Practitioner, you will play a critical role in ensuring compliance with food safety and quality standards within the organization. You will be responsible for developing, implementing, and maintaining the SQF system, including the documentation and management of all related processes.
• Additionally, you will serve as the primary point of contact for SQF certification audits and regulatory inspections.
• Prompt and regular attendance.
• Other duties as assigned.
Skills Needed: Experience working in a lab is preferred, previous auditing experience with SQF is preferred, attention to detail, internal/external auditing experience is a plus. Knowledge of math skills, computer, ability to read/interpret documents, and write routine reports/correspondence. May perform other duties as assigned, work as part of a team, maintain a clean/sanitary/safe work area. Requires accuracy and attention to detail. English language proficiency required.
Physical Demands: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; talk or hear and taste or smell. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; climb or balance and stoop. The employee must regularly push, pull, lift and/or move up to 55 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
Work Environment: While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is occasionally exposed to humid conditions and the noise level in the work environment is quiet except for when on the production floor.
Benefits:
Hollandia Dairy is an EEO/AA/Disability/Vets Employer
