Food Safety and Quality Assurance Technician

Job Summary

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 an independent FSQA audit program – SQF audits.
• Assist when necessary for product evaluations, plant visits, and supplier/customer communication with other staff members. Assist as needed in any manner capable during emergencies when the plant president or GM determines is paramount to the business.
• Frequently interact 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.

• Formal job training in TQM principles, SPC, HACCP concepts, CFIA/FDA regulations would be beneficial.
• Formal quality and sensory analysis training would be helpful.

• One to three years of meat and/or seafood industry experience at a federal CFIA/FDA meat and/or seafood processing plant (as appropriate).
• Raw meat or seafood industry experience alone will be accepted instead of combined experience.

• Demonstrate the ability to write reports, basic business correspondence, as well as effectively present information and respond to questions from managers.
• Demonstrate the ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in 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 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: close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• Plant audits and inspections may require lifting products up to 100 pounds and 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.