Quality Tech

Description

Summary: The Quality Technician oversees day-to-day quality operations for production lines, ensuring compliance with food safety and quality, sanitation, and batching systems. Highlights: 1. Oversee quality operations and ensure food safety compliance 2. Perform analysis on raw materials, finished batches, and treated water 3. Evaluate finished products and maintain accurate test records Apply Now Make a Difference in YOUR Career!  Our vision is both simple and ambitious: to put our drinks on every table. We are the leading global independent beverage solutions provider. We serve a broad range of nional and internional retailers as well as Global, Nional and Emerging (GNE) brands. Our products are distributed worldwide from our production sites in Europe, North American, and Australia. Although our own branding may not appear on the labels of the beverages we produce, there is a good chance you are reading this while sipping one of our drinks. Our ambition is to continually improve and it’s wh keeps us the top of our game. We are solutions-based. We are innovive. We seek out new challenges and conquer them. This is our company ethos, but it’s our people’s too: Refresco is the cutting edge of a fast-moving industry because we have passione people pushing the boundaries of wh’s best. Stop and think: how would YOU put our drinks on every table? Summary Description: Reporting to the Quality Supervisor, the Quality Technician is responsible for overseeing day-to-day quality operions for the production lines including the implemention and monitoring of food safety and food quality, sanition and bching systems to facilite compliance with company objectives and regulory requirements.  Essential Job Functions:  Adhere to all health and safety policies/procedures, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and wear the required personal protective equipment (PPE) while in the warehouse or production areas (including but not limited to hairnets/beard nets, safety glasses, hearing protection, hard toe and slip/oil resistant shoes, approprie safety gloves, and sebelts while opering forklifts).  Responsible to adhere to food quality and food safety as per the standard(s) provided by corpore, customer, and/or governing bodies (ex. SQF).  Ensure all products conform to the customer specificions as outlined in SAP system.  Perform analysis on raw merials, finished bches, treed wer and/or any other programmed outlines by the department.  Conduct chemical and physical analysis on raw and intermedie processing merials including packaging merials and determine stus of merials as acceptable or unacceptable.  Evalue finished products against current standards by performing audits to monitor all aspects of finished product and packaging integrity.  Check process control parameters to assure proper equipment applicion and operion is being maintained by performing secure seal, closure torque, can seam checks, and/or any other requirements required by the customer or the company.  Stop any production which may be questionable in terms of Food Safety and immediely alert a member of the management team.  Maintain accure, legible records of all tests and retests performed. Complete all other required reports (work orders, action reports, etc.) in a timely manner.   Perform analytical tests required to qualify ingredient bches for production.  Perform production line checks specified intervals.  Ensure accure test results by maintaining proper operion and calibrion of laborory equipment.   Maintain laborory cleanliness all times.   Report all out of specificion results to designed leadership.  Complete special projects and other reasonable duties as assigned by leadership. Required Skills: Working knowledge of Excel, Word, and SAP preferred.  Exposure to using measurement tools and equipment (e.g., calipers, micrometers, CMM machines) preferred. Organized and detail oriented, adaptable to change. High level of precision and accuracy in inspection and testing processes.  Familiarity with SQF, SAP, Six Sigma, GMP, and other relevant standards and regulions   Understanding of Food Safety Requirements. Able to read and understand metric system. Food or beverage laborory experience preferred. Competencies:  Technical: Skilled in maintaining accure and detailed records of inspections and tests  Integrity: Commitment to maintaining high ethical standards in all quality assurance activities.   Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing production environments and requirements.   Communicion: Clear and concise communicion with production staff and management Educion and Experience: High school diploma or equivalent. 1 – 3 years of experience in Quality within a manufacturing environment preferred. In plants co-packaging alcoholic beverages, must be least 21 years old. Working Conditions: Work Schedule: Weekdays, weekends, afternoon, evening, and overnight may be required. Overtime scheduled as needed. Work Environment: Opering in a fast-paced production plant with numerous moving parts.  Noise levels require hearing protection and temperures can get very hot and/or relively cold (laborory is temperure controlled). The environment is structured and supervised. Travel Requirements: 0% travel anticiped. Physical Requirements: R = Rarely (0-15%) O = Occasionally (16-45%) F = Frequently (46-100%) Physical Demand R O F Stand or Sit     X Stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl   X   Lifting up to 50 lbs. (minimum 5 lbs)   X   Carry weight, lift   X   Walking     X Driving X     Climb (stairs/ladders) or balance   X   Visual/Sensory: This position requires tention to detail, requiring tention with one or two senses a time. Mental Stress: There is pronounced pressure from deadlines, production quotas, accuracy, or similar demands. Other Duties: This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities th are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned any time with or without notice. Join Refresco TODAY and enjoy a rewarding CAREER!   Equal Opportunity Employer Any employment agency, person, or entity th submits a resume to this career site or a hiring manager does so with the understanding th the applicant’s resume will become the property of Refresco Beverages US, Inc. Refresco Beverages, US, Inc. will have the right to hire th applicant its discretion without any fee owed to the submitting employment agency, person, or entity. Employment agencies th have agreements with Refresco Beverages, Inc., and have been engaged in a search shall submit resume to the designed Refresco recruiter or, upon authorizion, submit resume to this career site to be eligible for placement fees.   Refresco is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive considerion for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, nional oriention, sexual oriention, age, marital stus, disability, gender identity, gender expression, Veteran stus, or any other classificion protected by federal, ste, or local law.   Equal Opportunity Employer This employer is required to notify all applicants of their rights pursuant to federal employment laws. For further informion, please review the Know Your Rights notice from the Department of Labor. Apply Now