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Job Purpose and Impact

The Food Safety Quality Technician III will complete a variety of monitoring and verification tasks to ensure that the plant operates in compliance with food safety programs, policies and certifications. In this role, you will influence people who are not direct reports to achieve overall quality standards and meet governmental agency quality standards.

Key Accountabilities

• Complete food safety, sanitation, operational, risk material and control room monitoring.
• Review daily material processing procedures and verify all applicable monitoring documents, taking immediate corrective actions when deviations are identified.
• Maintain quality records, imputing and assigning deviation reports as required.
• Conduct daily inspections of the plant for each one of the critical control points and sanitation monitoring zones, ensuring all monitors are adhering to the written food safety programs.
• Perform unbiased audits throughout the facility to ensure adherence to sanitation procedures for critical job tasks.
• Communicate deviations to management and ensure they are documented, assigned correctly and completed in a timely manner and follow up on corrective actions and preventative measures to ensure they are effective.
• Provide and administer food safety and quality certification training to plant employees including theoretical training related to quality programs.
• Handle complex clerical, administrative, technical or customer support issues under minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned
  
  

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Degree in chemistry or bachelor’s in pharmacy level or equivalent
• Experience with email, spreadsheet and word processing applications
• Knowledge of food safety concepts, including hazard management and governmental agency requirements
• Able to represent the company during third party audits and governmental agency verifications
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a science related field
• Minimum of two to three years of experience in a bulk drug manufacturing facility
• Experience or knowledge of QMS, GMP, GDP, Data integrity and QRM Documentation.