QA Administrative Assistant

Company: Bakkavor
Location: Carson
Posted on: August 4, 2022

Job Description:

Job Description

Shift: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm

SUMMARY

This role is responsible for the coordination and organization of documentation of sensory, and of environmental testing. This position updates company logs, reports and tracks trends. The Quality Assurance Adminstrative Coordinator works directly with Quality Assurance to log customer complaints, Non-Conformance log, and Foreign Material Incident Log. A high level of organizational and computer skills is necessary to maintain department documentation and records.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES include the following, but are not limited to:

* Prepare QA testing folders daily from the production schedule issued daily.
* Conduct pre-shipment review of all the records from the testings.
* Organize and help in audit preparation to ensure all testing records are aligned with programs, customer audits, and regulatory audits.
* Complete and review daily and weekly verification records for the pre-requisite programs.
* Prepare weekly Environmental Testing plan and communicate with QA Team to conduct swabbing.
* Prepare swabs, log back the swabs and create SARF to send to the lab for testing.
* Communicate with an outside lab to conduct environmental testing and logging back results in the database daily.
* Escalate any out-of-specification results and start CAPA for non-conforming results along with QA Manager.
* Contribute to continual improvement of environmental database.
* Log Pre-Op swab locations into the testing database and daily reports.
* Provide technical support to QA/QC and production departments on projects and products, as required.
* Maintain technical logs, including customer complaints, food safety issues, GMP summaries, and environmental testing.
* Document all customer complaints into the database, tracking and trending all customer complaints.
* Track trending in-house Non-Conformance, Food Safety issues, and Foreign Material Incident reports.
* Create Monthly Technical reports achieved in the month.
* And all other duties as assigned by QA Management.

QUALIFICATIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE

* Preferred B.S. degree from a 4- year university In Food Science or related field.
* Three years food industry or equivalent experience
* HACCP Certification required

WORK ENVIRONMENT

The employee will work in a variety of environments due to the variety of processes within the company. In certain areas the employee must use hearing protective devices and personal protective equipment. The employee may be required to be available for shift work, extended hours and days. The employee is regularly exposed to wet, humid, cold and/or hot conditions, including wet floors. The employee will be required to work in an environment in which temperature ranges from sub-0 to 85 for prolonged amounts of time, as needed.

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