Shamrock Foods Company Hiring for QA Technician Lead – QALAB007349-4612 at Phoenix, Arizona Full Time

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Pay: $25/HR

Schedule: 9:00 AM-5:30 PM

Workdays: Monday-Friday

Responsible for supporting food safety and quality assurance programs in
a busy production facility. The QA Lead will direct quality assurance
technicians and coordinate the GMP monitoring/QA activities for the
production and operations of products by performing the following
duties.

Essential Duties:

• Interprets company policies to associates and enforces safety
  regulations
• Interprets specifications and job orders to associates, and assigns
  duties
• Establishes or adjusts procedures to meet required quality assurance
  and finished product goals
• Recommends and implements measures to improve testing methods,
  equipment performance, and quality of product
• Suggests and implements changes in working conditions and use of
  equipment to increase efficiency of quality assurance testing tasks
• Analyzes and resolves production and product quality issues and
  assists in implementing corrective actions.
• Suggest and initiate plans to motivate associates to achieve
  department goals
• Schedule and complete preventative maintenance and calibration
  activities for all equipment as required.
• Review testing procedures and ensure accuracy of testing methods
• Maintain QA inventory of proper PPE and other QA supplies
• Investigate all quality product failures and develop root cause
  analysis and tracking tools to determine failure root cause and
  suggest corrective actions and procedures
• Serves as subject matter expert (SME) to ensure compliance with
  applicable federal, state, and local, food safety regulations.
  Maintains positive contacts with agency representatives to establish
  relationships and to assist with compliance issues and questions
• Perform the activities of technicians and all associates supervised
• Maintain understanding of processes and functional
  interdependencies. Recognize and escalate, as needed, those issues
  identified as risks to, or opportunities to improve, plant
  performance
• Responsible for the microbial program compliance for the facility.
  Also, responsible for continued development and continuous
  improvement of such programs
• Monitor operational activities to ensure compliance with HACCP and
  GMP requirements
• Act as back-up for Quality Assurance Supervisor when out on
  vacation/sick leave
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry or
  related field
• 3+ Years of Quality Assurance related experience in an FDA/USDA
  regulated food manufacturing facility
• Must be flexible and willing to work the demands of the department
  which may be subject to evenings, weekends and holidays.

Corporate Summary

At Shamrock Foods Company, people come first – our associates, our
customers, and the families we serve across the nation. A
privately-held, family-owned and -operated Forbes 500 company, Shamrock
is an innovator in the food industry and has been since being founded in
Arizona in 1922.

Our Mission

At Shamrock Foods Company, we live by our founding family’s motto to
“treat associates like family and customers like friends.

Why work for us?

Benefits are a major part of your overall compensation, and we believe
offering them at an affordable cost is not only the right thing to do,
but it helps keep you and your family healthy. That’s why Shamrock
Foods pays for the majority of your health insurance, allowing you to
take home more of your paycheck. And it doesn’t stop there – our
associates also enjoy additional benefits such as 401(k) Savings Plan,
Profit Sharing, Paid Time Off, as well as our incredible growt
opportunities, continued education, wellness programs.

Equal Opportunity Employer

At Shamrock Foods Co all qualified applicants will receive consideration
for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity
or any other basis protected by applicable law.