Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician Job at Sysco (Newport Palisades)

Job Description

Responsible for the quality of processes and product outputs. Activities include: • Defining and specifying activities, processes, and standards to fulfill the quality requirements for a service or manufactured material, component, or product • Auditing, monitoring and determining the quality of processes or outputs, either against defined internal and/or regulatory standards • Product integrity testing, coloring, fitting and pattern and wet processing to ensure orders are in compliance with corporate/customers' quality requirements • Reporting on process deviations and defects

Job Responsibility

Monitor Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) support/evaluation programs and inspection/audit procedures to ensure compliance of products and processes to corporate and regulatory requirements at a Sysco Specialty Meat and/or Seafood Company
Monitoring of FSQA programs including HACCP Program, sanitation standard operating procedures, pest control, good manufacturing practices, approved supplier program, foreign material control, plant sanitation, chemical control, product quality assurance, FSQA Customer complaints, food defense and security
Assist in Employee Training of FSQA Programs, Policies, and Procedures
Assist in Implementation of Independent FSQA Audit Program – SQF Audits
Assist when necessary for product evaluations, plant visits, and supplier/customer communication to assist other staff members
Assist as needed in any manner capable of during emergencies the plant President or GM (general manager) determines are paramount to the business
Frequently interacts with the following: SSMC/SSSC Personnel, Operations, Sales, Transportation and Maintenance as well as Sysco Operating Companies, and supplier/customer personnel at the line level

Requirements

Formal job training in TQM principles, SPC, HACCP concepts, CFIA/FDA regulations
Formal quality and sensory analysis training
One to 3 years of meat and/or seafood industry experience at a federal CFIA/FDA meat and/or seafood processing plant
Raw meat or seafood industry experience
Demonstrate the ability to write reports, basic business correspondence, as well as to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers
Demonstrate the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide into all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals
Demonstrate the ability to define problems, collect data and establish facts
Demonstrate the ability to interpret basic technical instructions
Ability to use personal computer, lab equipment, food preparation equipment and office communication equipment
Valid driver’s license
Regularly required to talk or hear
Frequently is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls
Occasionally required to stand
walk
sit
reach with hands and arms
stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl
and taste or smell
Occasionally lift and/or move up to 100 pounds
Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus
Plant audits and inspections may require lifting of products up to 100 pounds and inspection requires working in a production environment on a moving line, lifting cartons, and visual inspection
Corrected vision required for sensory analysis to identify color, clarity
Warehouse and plant audit also requires close and distance vision to judge GMPs
peripheral vision and depth perception mandatory for safety
Frequently exposed to fumes or airborne particles
Occasionally works near mechanical parts and in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, extreme cold, and risk of radiation
The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate and operating in a refrigerated environment is common
Plant audits/inspections and working at remote in-transit processing facilities and Sysco Operating Companies contain both moderate/loud noise and exposure to fumes and mechanical hazards

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