Quality Assurance Technician (3rd Shift)
Michael Foods
This is a Full-time position in Chaska, MN posted January 12, 2022.
Business Unit Overview
Michael Foods, Inc.
is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products.
We offer exciting job possibilities throughout our organization where you can enhance your career, sharpen your talents and make an impact.
Join our company and be part of an innovative team that’s First in Food .
Location Description
Michael foods, Inc.
located in Chaska, Minnesota is known as the “best small town in Minnesota”” with a highly rated school system and home of the PGA Tournament in 2018!
As our community grows, we strive to preserve the small town atmosphere.
Minutes away from beautiful lakes, major highways, shopping malls and the Twin Cities, it is the perfect location to work!.
Our location produces a variety of potato products.
For over 100 years, the Michael Foods family of businesses has leveraged quality ingredients and innovative processes to offer the finest products and solutions to our customers and to food-loving consumers.
Responsibilities
- Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone.
Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and, incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
- Adhere to Quality work practices, follow GMP’s, 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.
- Perform periodic in process quality checks: physical and chemical lab testing, coding, weight, packaging integrity, labeling, temperature, sensory, document review etc.
to verify compliance with costumer and MFI’s specifications and all others associated regulations for all products.
- Inspect and sample incoming ingredients to summit for internal lab testing as required.
- Assist in drafting, revision, and maintenance of plant standard operating procedures.
- Act as a liaison between Production, Distribution, Sanitation, Maintenance, and the Quality Department.
- Participate in plant food safety/quality inspections, in-process inspections, mock recall, label audits, HACCP audits.
- Verify proper set-up of production lines at start-up and shift change: Printer set-up (coding), packaging materials, labeling, quality limits, etc.
- Review sanitary condition of production lines prior to start-up by verifying fillers sterilization limits, performing ATP (adenosine triphosphate / verify surface cleanliness) and environmental swab, and follow up sanitation procedures after downtime requiring maintenance activity.
- Communicate quality issues with Production and Quality Management and assist in root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions where appropriate.
- Perform investigative environmental swabbing of critical production equipment/areas as a troubleshooting guide
- Assist in investigations in response to customer concerns or other quality related deviations to determine root cause and appropriate corrective actions.
- Assist in the management of quality hold activities, including non-conforming product inventories.
- Ensure lab equipment, fridges and thermometer etc.
are properly maintained and calibrated.
- Maintain and follow MFI micro sample and shelf life study programs.
- Adhere to safe work practices, follow GLP/ GMP’s, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained.
Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
- Adhere to all safety policies and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information.
41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Qualifications:
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.
However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor s legal duty to furnish information.
41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Responsibilities:
- Assumes personal responsibility to insure safe and healthy workplace for everyone.
Adhere to all safety policies and procedures and, incorporate safety and health in all jobs and tasks.
- Adhere to Quality work practices, follow GMP s, 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.
- Perform periodic in process quality checks: physical and chemical lab testing, coding, weight, packaging integrity, labeling, temperature, sensory, document review etc.
to verify compliance with costumer and MFI s specifications and all others associated regulations for all products.
- Inspect and sample incoming ingredients to summit for internal lab testing as required.
- Assist in drafting, revision, and maintenance of plant standard operating procedures.
- Act as a liaison between Production, Distribution, Sanitation, Maintenance, and the Quality Department.
- Participate in plant food safety/quality inspections, in-process inspections, mock recall, label audits, HACCP audits.
- Verify proper set-up of production lines at start-up and shift change: Printer set-up (coding), packaging materials, labeling, quality limits, etc.
- Review sanitary condition of production lines prior to start-up by verifying fillers sterilization limits, performing ATP (adenosine triphosphate / verify surface cleanliness) and environmental swab, and follow up sanitation procedures after downtime requiring maintenance activity.
- Communicate quality issues with Production and Quality Management and assist in root cause analysis and implementation of corrective actions where appropriate.
- Perform investigative environmental swabbing of critical production equipment/areas as a troubleshooting guide
- Assist in investigations in response to customer concerns or other quality related deviations to determine root cause and appropriate corrective actions.
- Assist in the management of quality hold activities, including non-conforming product inventories.
- Ensure lab equipment, fridges and thermometer etc.
are properly maintained and calibrated.
- Maintain and follow MFI micro sample and shelf life study programs.
- Adhere to safe work practices, follow GLP/ GMP s, maintain sanitary conditions and ensure that product quality is maintained.
Report to management any conditions or practices that may adversely affect food safety, food quality or personnel safety.
- Adhere to all safety policies and procedures.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
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