Quality Assurance Technician
Seattle Fish Co.
- Denver, CO
- $50,000-60,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Leading and training our production teams in seafood and meat quality, food safety, cleaning/ sanitation goals and expectations.
- Inspection of the receiving process to check incoming product quality, daily revision for best by dates of product in storage, daily reports to key members of the team
- Review improvement opportunities and implement plans when necessary; root cause evaluations, coaching/discipline, training efforts, process improvements, CAPA closures, record keeping, etc.
- Training new hires as well as seasoned employees in food quality standards, company, customer specifications, and food safety processes.
- Lead the weekly Quality Meeting
- Ability to adapt to rapidly changing situations and multitask on several issues at once
- Acts as a point of contact for all quality issues.
- Review customer product returns and work toward validating, reducing, and eliminating with the teams involved in this process
- Back up to the Food Safety QA Manger, following through on all food safety duties.
- Review SOPs and SSOPs to make sure these documents are up to date
- Review and update specification sheets as needed
- Daily quality checks on the production floor
- Communicate clearly with production, maintenance, receiving, and warehouse, procurement, sales and applicable teams
- Monitor and enforce adherence to GMPs, HACCP, and SSOPs
- Maintain clean, organized workspaces aligned with food safety standards
- Conduct equipment swab tests to confirm cleanliness of equipment
- Conduct calibration of production equipment at appropriate frequency
- Coordinate communication between manufacturing associates and QA personnel
- Conduct environmental testing for pathogens
- Other duties may be assigned
- Minimum 2 years’ experience in food production and bachelor’s degree in related field is a plus
- Experience with quality methodologies such as Internal Auditing, Corrective & Preventive Action and Problem-Solving Disciplines
- Supervisory experience/skills are essential
- Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures in an industrial environment including SQF, HACCP, GMP and SSOP
- Experience with implementing and documenting quality systems in a manufacturing setting
- Solid Computer skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Bilingual in Spanish is a plus
- Maintain a clean and organized work area.
- Work within established safe work practices, policies and procedures.
- Foster a culture of inclusion, teamwork, and respect for all team members
- Safety mindset
- Flexible/adaptable – ability to work overtime as needed
- Must reside in the Denver area as this position is ineligible for relocation
- Stand on your feet for at least 8-hour shifts and walk regularly
- Maneuver throughout the production floor/process areas that could include narrow, irregular, and aisles
- Regularly lift and/or push/pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or push/pull up to 100 pounds
- Frequently walk, bend, stoop, crouch, squat, kneel, and twist
- Frequently use hands/fingers to grasp and pinch
- Frequently reach below waist, above waist, and above shoulders with arms and hands
- Verbal communication
- Ability to hear speech and mechanical sounds (machine alerts, safety alerts, quality alerts)
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus and ability to see colors
- Tolerate cold, wet environment
- Medical insurance
- Dental and vision insurance
- Company paid life insurance
- Company paid long-term and short-term disability
- 401k retirement plan
- Discount pricing on seafood, meat, and gourmet products