Food Safety And Qa Technician - Maryland Culinary

SUMMARY:

This position has direct responsibility to ensure that all work activities under its span of control are performed with attention to the highest standards of food quality, safe processes, compliance with all appropriate legal requirements and a focus on continuous process improvement.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES:

• Continually enforce and verify Food Safety and sanitation policies throughout the plant
• Instrument calibrations.
• Monthly glass, brittle, and plastic inspection
• Bi-weekly Food Safety observation
• Raw material sampling
• GMP audits
• Team member training on various policies and procedures including GMPs, SOPs and HACCP.
• Translate company policies and procedures
• Product evaluation
• Per-operational and Daily Operational inspection
• Receiving/Shipping Observation
• Documentation verification, review and filing
• Help with non-conformance, customer complaint and CAPA investigation and documentation
• Manage supply chain and purchasing for two Nutritional Programs (Department of Defense Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program) and (Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program)
• Administer purchasing orders and purchase requisitions for (DOD) and (FFVP)
• Work closely with Logistics Supervisor and Client Project Manager on order counts for each program.
• Any other tasks as assigned by management.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS OF THE JOB:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by a Team Member to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the team member is frequently required stand, walk, talk and hear
• Use hands and fingers to feel, handle, or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms.
• Be standing on feet majority of the workday in addition to walking back and forth.
• Lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Lifting while turning side to side is sometimes necessary.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.

Position sometimes requires extended hours including evenings and/or weekends, travel to multiple work sites and occasional out-of-state travel.

WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• The work is performed primarily in a manufacturing and warehouse environment, specifically the packing and warehousing areas
• Standing most of the work day is required.
• Work requires movement in and out of store rooms, near heavy machinery and freezers
• The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud.

• Exposure to extreme temperatures (hot and cold) due to cooking and refrigeration equipment.

The duties listed above are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work and duties that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position, and Whitsons reserves the right to add additional duties or modify existing duties.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between Whitsons and team member and is subject to change by Whitsons as the needs of Whitsons and requirements of the job change.