Quality Assurance Technician

Job Description

Job Description

Are you a motivated, detail orientated, self-starter with a strong desire to be part of a collaborative team? We offer opportunities for a long-term, rewarding career.

If so, this could be the opportunity for you! Become part of our nimble, energetic, team-orientated environment and apply today!

What Ever Fresh Fruit Company offers!

• Employee / professional development
• Opportunities for growth
• Employee recognition programs

Ever Fresh Fruit Company offers employer paid :

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• Short-term disability
• Life insurance plan
• Vacation, sick and holiday pay
• Gym membership discount
• Tuition reimbursement
• Generous 401(k) match

About us!

We work closely with our customers to create unique flavor elements to ice cream bases and yogurt preps. Many of our ingredients end up in easily recognizable brands on the store shelf as we produce for both international corporations as well as smaller, local brands.

Our Research and Development is done in-house, providing us the ability to see the whole process from ideation to creation.

We support regional trade organizations, source locally when appropriate and provide healthy food to people’s tables.

Quality Assurance Technician

Department : Quality Assurance

Status : Non-Exempt

Employee Classification : Regular Full-time

Reports To : Quality Assurance Manager

Supervisory Responsibilities : None

Shift : Saturday through Tuesday, 3 : 45pm to 3 : 00am

Job Summary : Responsible for performing Quality Assurance testing and ensure Food Safety and Quality in Ever Fresh Fruit Products, Raw Materials, Packaging, Equipment, Facility, etc.

Essential Functions :

• Create accurate records, all conducted according to established policies and procedures.
• Responsible for maintaining GMPs throughout the facility both within the QA department and all other departments.
• Assist with Pre-operational inspections
• Provide Production support
• Monitor and adhere to HACCP plans, reporting and performing corrective action when necessary
• Perform Product Quality testing (brix, pH, pressure, USDA grades, etc.)
• Perform Product documentation control, scanning and filing
• Performs other related duties as assigned by management.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities :

• High school diploma or general education degree (GED), or one to three months related experience and / or training, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals.
• Ability to write routine reports and correspondence.
• Ability to add, subtract, multiply and divide all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals.

Ability to compute ratio and percent.

• Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of the organization.
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of situations
• Ability to interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram or schedule form.

Working Conditions / Physical Factors :

• Exposure to wet and / or humid conditions.
• Worker may be exposed to a loud working environment.
• Worker may be exposed to hazards in the workplace such as proximity to equipment conducting extreme heat, moving parts, and electrical current
• Must be able to work in environment containing allergens (nuts, milk, wheat, etc.)
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged periods of time
• Occasionally required to use hands and fingers
• Frequently required to talk or hear
• Frequently required to taste and smell
• Frequently required to lift / push / pull / carry weight up to 50 pounds
• Specific vision abilities required for this job include : close vision, distance vision, and color vision.
• Exposure to moving mechanical parts
• Exposure to fumes or airborne particles

Other Duties as Assigned :

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee.