Qa Technician

The Quality Assurance Technician position coordinates with operations and QA personnel by checking the daily bottling schedule, furnishing, and maintaining product specifications, performing routine analyses on incoming raw material, blending, and bottling products, maintaining and documenting routine quality systems, performing multiple lab tasks, and advising supervisors of deviations from the process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Performs inspection and testing activities to ensure continuous control over materials, facilities, and products throughout the production cycle.
• Testing and performing adjustments on product blends according to required specifications.
• Determines Brix-Acid Ratio (BAR) and oil level in product blends.
• Microbiological testing of certain raw material and finished products.
• Performs visual inspections of equipment and machinery post sanitation.
• Maintains quality assurance objectives complementary to corporate policies and goals.
• Follows company policies and procedures including cGMPs, SOPs, SSOP, Food Safety/HACCP/SQF or other food safety schemes, GLP, OSHA standards.
• Completes facility walkthrough using the above-mentioned standards.
• Inspects all job assignments for quality and completion.
• Ensures work is documented properly and timely.
• Performs quality-related, special projects as instructed (i.e. shelf life studies, flavor panels, audits, etc.)
• Performs other duties as assigned or required.