QA Technician

Quality Assurance Technician

This is a full-time, exempt position

Quality Assurance Technician will be responsible for optimizing processes, procedures, will be detail oriented, and take the initiative to improve quality systems. Help the PetDine team establish a culture of quality from the ground floor at our new facility, contribute to the quality team needed to maintain excellent standards and regulatory compliance.

Job Responsibilities

• Maintain and enforce food safety and quality standard throughout the facility by following all quality programs including sanitation, HACCP, cGMP, food defense, food fraud, pest control, calibration, traceability, training, internal audit, and vendor approval programs.

• Support compliance with regulatory requirements and SQF, HACCP and cGMP policies and regulations.

• Conduct basic daily tests (pH, chemical concentrations, swabbing), inspections, and audits of the facility.

• Ensure finished goods quality standards are achieved through routine quality checks during startup and throughout the shift. Ensure that finished product meets those specifications.

• Conduct pre-operational inspections of production equipment. Conduct audits and signoffs of master sanitation schedule.

• Work closely with production operators, maintenance, and warehouse to achieve quality standards and requirements, adjusting process parameters as needed.

• Support investigations of non-conforming product and support corrective and preventative actions implementation.

• Place non-conforming products on hold and escalate issues to management.

• Facilitate and escalate quality issues within responsible departments, work closely with production to resolve matters that affect safety and quality

• Ensure accurate record keeping and completion of documents including batch paperwork, and CCP monitoring.

• Other duties as assigned

Job Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of HARPC, cGMPs, FDA regulations and documentation procedures

• High school diploma or equivalent

• 1-3 years of experience in this industry or similar

• Strong organization skills and ability to complete projects

• Must be adaptable to shifting priorities and operate with a sense of urgency within an unstructured framework/growing company

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Environment

• Ambient conditions – Work area is, typically, a non-air-conditioned production environment. Hot or cold Temperatures, all seasonal elements, both indoors and outdoors.

• Atmosphere: Dust (Peanut – known allergen), cotton, canola seed, and odor

• Must be able to work around noise levels that may reach or exceed 85 decibels and require use of hearing protection for most of the work shift

• Protective clothing required: Uniforms, hardhats, earplugs, safety glasses, hair restraints, steel toed shoes, gloves and safety harness may be required based on task performed; employees are required to wear all required PPE (i.e. hard-hats, safety glasses, earplugs, uniforms, and steel toed boots) in addition to job specific PPE requirements. *Employees in roles that require respirators will need to be clean shaven.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, walk, kneel, crouch, stoop, squat, twisting upper body, use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear, vision

• Ability to move about or to a work site by ascending/descending stairs, bending, kneeling and prolonged periods of standing and sitting, stooping, bending, kneeling or squatting frequently

• Ability to operate equipment or machinery that may be located at different heights; may require work on ladders, scaffolding or other work at heights or in confined spaces

• Ability to lift and transport materials and equipment weighing up to 40 pounds on a frequent basis, up to 55 pounds on an occasional basis and up to 50 pounds overhead

• Requires ability and willingness to wear respirators

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $19.06 – $19.88 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Vision insurance

Experience level:

• 2 years

Schedule:

• Night shift
• Overtime

Work setting:

• Food Processing Plant
• Manufacturing facility

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Windsor, CO: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Manufacturing: 1 year (Preferred)

Shift availability:

• Night Shift (Required)

Work Location: In person