Quality Assurance Technician - 3rd Shift - Eagle Foods, LLC
Waukegan, IL 60087
About the Job
At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.
Responsibilities:- Perform daily quality checks as required to ensure all company, customer, and regulatory specifications and requirements are met.
- Collect and analyze product samples as required, as well as document information obtained from analysis
- Maintain documentation to meet HACCP, FSMA, BRC and customer requirements
- Inspection of raw materials, packaging components, in-process and finished product to defined specifications, and assist in investigating non-conformance
- Monitor pre-op and operational sanitation compliance and record information/deviations as necessary, including notification of quality and production management.
- Monitor production employees and processes for GMP compliance
- Complete documentation for out of specification material and work with production to correct.
- Ensure implementation of quality assurance and other company standards throughout production, receiving and shipping.
- Monitor product quality attributes and assist production with troubleshooting.
- Assist other plant team members as needed, and perform any other duties as assigned
- High School Diploma or GED and 2 years’ food industry experience
- Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite in addition to knowledge of manufacturing processes and procedures.
- Experience with Food Safety Audit expectations and requirements
- HACCP and GMP principal knowledge preferred
- Communicate effectively
- Ability to work overtime as needed