Quality Assurance Technician - night shift

Business Unit Description: Michael Foods, Inc. is a leader in the food processing and distribution industry with business in egg products, refrigerated grocery and potato products

Responsibilities

1. Adheres to safe work practices, follows GMP’s, maintains sanitary conditions and ensures that product quality is maintained. Reports any conditions or practices that may adversely affect employee safety or food safety/quality to management immediately.

2. Attends and actively participates in daily shift huddles and handoffs. 3.

Collect in-process and finished-product samples for analytical and microbiological quality checks. 4. Performs verifications of: Package coding, product weights, packaging integrity, labeling, temperature, sensory, etc. to verify compliance with customer and MFI’s specifications and all others associated regulations for all products.

5. Inspect and sample incoming ingredients, ensuring product quality and safety. 6.

Assist in drafting, revision, and maintenance of plant standard operating procedures. 7. Act as a liaison between Production, Distribution, Sanitation, Maintenance, and the Quality Department by communicating quality issues, assisting in corrective action implementation where necessary.

8. Participate in plant food safety/quality inspections, in-process inspections, mock recall, label audits, HACCP audits. 9.

Verify proper set-up of production lines at start-up and shift change: Printer set-up (coding), packaging materials, labeling, quality limits, etc. 10. Review sanitary condition of production lines prior to start-up by visual and mechanical inspection, performing ATP (adenosine triphosphate / verify surface cleanliness) and APC (Aerobic Plate Count / Verify absence of microbiological organisms).