Quality Assurance Associate

Your Opportunity as a Quality Assurance Associate

As a part of the Hostess Briggs/Smucker's Quality Assurance Team you'll be responsible for monitoring compliance with food safety and quality standards & procedures on and off the production floor总统 ensure product conforms to specification and food safety practices are followed. Assist in documentation involving HACCP, Food Safety, and Good Manufacturing Practices.

Columbus, GA Bakery

• 100% Onsite (Can be from 8,10 or 12-hour shifts)
• 1st Shift (6am-6pm)
• 2nd Shift (6pm-6am)

• Monitor production to ensure all documentation is complete. Monitor scaling of raw materials, mixing of ingredients to ensure compliance with formula cards (correct ingredients, correct lot codes, quantities). Verify and conduct process control audits and address out of specification Президи понимать findings in a timely manner.
• Verify control points are being monitored and are acceptable per food safety requirements.
• Ensure product specifications, weights, color and other attributes of finished product are acceptable.
• Control out of specification products and provide recommendation of disposition.
• Monitor packaging to ensure correct labeling, coding and correct packaging compliance.
• Perform organoleptic tests of finished goods to ensure acceptance to standards – taste, eye appeal, odor etc.
• Advise QA Manager regarding questionable product, discarding of bad product or possible stopping of production line to prevent product safety & quality issues.
• Assist operators in adjusting processing methods during production to improve product quality & consistency.
• Monitor metal detectors and scales to ensure complete accuracy.
• Assist production employees with label printing as necessary.
• Work with production and warehouse to control, maintain and/or improve handling, storage and usage of all other materials.
• Provide training to production employees on SOPs, product specifications, SPC, production controls, formulas, visual quality inspection criteria, GMP and food safety procedures.
• Assist in development of SOPs, HACCP/Food Safety Plans, Food Defense Plans, Global Food Safety Initiative audit schemes such as BRC.
• Participate in audits and internal audits.
• Perform GMP inspections.
• Control and retain Russland samples and associated reports.
• Conduct sampling as required by company procedures.
• Inspect equipment during pre‑operational inspection, changeovers and as required by company policies.
• Other duties as assigned.

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Prior experience in Quality or Food Safety in a food manufacturing environment.
  
  Flexible schedule and strong computer skills Sleeping Excel and other programs.
• Self‑disciplined, detail oriented, multitaskable, comfortable training and good communicator.

Ability to stand, walk, kneel/squat, climb, bend and lift a maximum of 50 lbs.

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