Hauppauge
Job Description Job Summary: This position is a shared position. The primary duties are as a general labor employee in production. This position will fill in as a QA Technician when needed. Oversee the production process, ensuring safety and quality standards are met. Required Skills/Abilities: • Prior food service industry experience is a plus., • Must have good written, verbal, and math skills., • Responsible for daily QA function within a food processing plant., • Daily, perform a pre-operational sanitation checklist for buildings A, B, C, and D, • Perform an operational sanitation checklist for buildings A, B, C, and D for the duration of each production day., • Monitors production compliance to HACCP Plan, • Perform ATP test after deep cleaning procedures and after allergen productions. Determine conformance or nonconformance and take corrective action when necessary., • Check traceability records compared with actual lot numbers and correct any discrepancies., • Periodic audit of Recipes to see if followed., • Periodic line studies to pinpoint sources of increased micro count on product., • Collect and maintain reference samples for all products manufactured daily for freezer storage., • Collect records from the previous day's production., • Check the thawing process and document., • Check all temperatures around the facility and record on the Daily Temperature Log sheet and Pre-shipment HACCP record (2x Daily- am. / p.m.), • Take aseptic raw material and finished good samples for microbiological analysis., • At least every hour makes a production inspection for (if specifications are met):, • The thickness of the dough, • Raw product integrity, • Internal product temperature (when applicable)., • Organoleptic inspection., • Cooling tank operating, • Product condition after the freezer, • Packing machine operation, package seals, • Proper film bag, bag code date, • Box label and code date, • Metal detector, • Weight, • Employee dress, • Floor area, • Monitor all areas of production, • Water pick up when doing Precooked items., • Perform pH testing and Bostwick (Sauce plant), • When product is out of specification, put product on HOLD following SOP., • When Metal Detector rejects product, QA must inspect product following SOP, • Check sanitizer concentration once a week., • Check soap concentration once a week using a test kit., • Ability to understand documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals, • Ability to write routine reports and correspondence