Quality Specialist I - Aspen Co-Pak LLC

Job Summary

The Quality specialist role encompasses a variety of tasks including creation and maintenance of quality documents, investigations, training, and audits, and helps ensure compliance to the quality system. This position requires a high level of organization and attention to detail. 

Job Duties

• Creates, updates, and maintains master manufacturing records (MMR’s), batching and production records
• Creates, updates, and maintains finished product specifications, raw material specifications and packaging specifications
• Assists in maintaining SOPs, Forms, Work Instructions and other Quality Documents as needed
• Creates deviations, and change control records
• Reviews and approves incoming labels, based on customer standard or customer approval
• Organizes, files, and maintains documents and records as needed
• Assists with supplier approval program
• Inspects, pulls samples, and releases incoming materials
• Manages environmental monitoring program (pulls samples, reviews and tracks results
• Assists with responsibilities for HACCP and Food Safety programs
• Participates in ensuring plant wide Pre-requisite programs are instituted and functioning
• Helps to ensure plant wide GMP compliance
• Assists in internal auditing program. Assesses non-compliances and makes recommendations for corrective actions to management
• Assists with customer complaints, corrective actions and CAPA’s
• Assists with GMP training
• Assists with review of production records, test result review and finished product release
• Back up to Quality manager

Required Skills

• Knowledge of Quality Assurance systems and procedures, FDA, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP’s), HACCP and internal auditing.
• Ability to understand and interpret product quality, specifications, and regulatory documents
• Work as a team player
• Ability to communicate effectively and professionally

Experience and Education

• 5 years minimum work experience in related field (preferably in food manufacturing)
• PCQI trained (preferred)
• Bilingual in English and Spanish (preferred)
• HACCP trained
• Experience with NSF, SQF, Organic, Kosher, Halal certification requirements (preferred)