Quality Control Technician - 1st Shift - Quality

Compensation for roles at Glanbia varies depending on a wide range of factors including but not limited to the specific office location, role, skill set and level of experience. Glanbia provides a reasonable range of compensation for roles that may be hired in Illinois. This range may not be applicable to other locations. The hourly rate for Illinois based employees for this role is $21.50 / hour.

Job Summary

Quality Technicians are responsible for managing and enforcing quality programs & procedures, and company established policies regarding the powder manufacturing process and storage. Quality control technicians review, verify and test products across the three stages of production (incoming, in-process, and final) to ensure quality and food safety levels are met.

Essential Functions

Duties and Responsibilities

Description

% of Time Spent

• Compliance and Regulatory :
• Ensure compliance to federal and state laws, as well as GPN standards, and maintain documentation to support quality control activities.
• Environmental Control Program ECA - perform swabbing for the environmental corrective actions as directed by the compliance team.
• Process Improvement :
• Collaborate with production teams to identify and implement process improvements to reduce defects, increase efficiency, and enhance overall product quality.
• Communication : Communicate effectively with production teams, quality assurance supervisor, managers, and other stakeholders to resolve quality issues, implement corrective actions, and provide quality feedback.
• Calibration and Maintenance : Calibrate and maintain quality control equipment, instruments, and tools to ensure accuracy and precision.
• Internal Auditing :
• Auditing the assigned area, and communicate quality or compliance concerns with urgency. Document finding within the corrective action records.
• Inspection and Verification
• Perform verification activities across all the production stages such as weighing, dumping, blending and packaging to detect defects, irregularities, and non-conformities.
• Perform verification and direct observation of food safety cheeks such as screens, magnets and x-ray's to ensure the products are free of foreign materials.
• Perform sensory evaluations on in-process and finished product to determine out of specification batches.
• Complete finish product final inspection and release to distribution.
• Perform cleaning verifications using ATP swabs and visual inspections to approve manufacturing rooms prior to production.
• Records verification to ensure all production and quality documents are accurately completed in real-time during manufacturing process.
• Data Recording and Analysis :
• Data entry in Logs pertaining to Quality Metrics.
• Perform SAP / LIMS transactions for releases, holds, reworks and High Jump where applicable, and enter results into a computerized system, track and report results (GP / SAP / MS Office programs).
• Training : Complete training for new hire employees. Keep the training up to date based on GPN training matrix.
• Other :
• Flexibility to perform other duties as assigned.

Decision Making / Problem Solving Give at least 3 examples of the types of decisions this job will typically make without higher level approval. If none - type "N / A"

Education

Education Requirements

Min / Preferred

Education Level

Description

Minimum

High School or GED

Certifications

Experience Enter minimum / maximum using the drop down menus below - any other experience can be entered as open text

Years Of Experience

Minimum Years of Experience

Maximum Years of Experience

Comments

3+

Food or Pharmaceutical Quality Experience Preferred

Other Experience

Physical Demands The work is classified as Light - Medium Physical Demand Level (PDL) by the US Dept. of Labor's Dictionary of Occupational Titles. Frequencies : Occasional (1-33%); Frequent (34-66%); Constant (67-100%)

Postural Demands

Demand

Frequency

Sitting

Occasional

Standing

Frequent

Walking

Frequent

Bending / Stooping

Frequent

Lifting Demands

Demand

Frequency

Designation

Lift up to waist

Lift on up to shoulder

Lift on up to overhead

Carry on up to 25 feet

Carry up stairs

Lifting Demands (Manufacturing)

948 Quality Control : 1) Lift 25 lbs. from 6 inches to waist level x 5 reps.

At Glanbia, we celebrate diversity, because we know that our individual strengths make us stronger together. We welcome and encourage interest from a wide variety of candidates, and we will give your application consideration, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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