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Food Safety Quality Assurance Technician
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BrightPet- Kiel (BNG- Phoebe)
Kiel, WI (In Person)
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Job Description
BrightPet is a leading consumer brand and manufacturing company in the pet and companion animal industry. BrightPet pioneers a portfolio of widely recognized leading consumer brands, including Stewart®, Bravo®, Blackwood®, Adirondack®, By Nature®, Miracle Care® and Hamilton® with holistic, natural, and organic solutions. The Stewart brand boasts the number one market share for freeze dried raw treats on all major digital retailers. Blackwood is exported to more than a dozen countries. BrightPet owns five manufacturing facilities and has unparalleled manufacturing capabilities in the pet industry. BrightPet is on an aggressive growth trajectory and has completed an expansion at four of the five manufacturing facilities in the last three years.
Job Title:
Quality Assurance Technician Department:
Quality Assurance Reports To:
FSQA Manager Location:
Kiel, WI General Summary:
The Quality Assurance Technician monitors and audits production processes to ensure that all products entering or leaving the plant meet internal and external quality standards.Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Read and interpret product specifications to ensure the product is compliant.
- Monitor production processes and product attributes and communicate any deviation from specifications.
- Perform laboratory analysis on raw materials and finished products as per work instructions.
- Place on "hold" non-conforming product, document status and communicate this information to the production supervisors and QA Manager.
- Perform secondary evaluations on all non-conforming products, document product status and communicate results to QA Manager.
- Monitor all facility areas for Good Manufacturing Practices compliance.
- Assist in special projects (ex. shelf-life studies, customer complaints, internal audits) and ensure that accurate data is collected and recorded
- Complete reports accurately and neatly. Ensure that reports can be easily retrieved.
- Responsible for following Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) as well as following Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
Qualifications:
- High school diploma or GED equivalent preferred.
- Quality assurance experience in a manufacturing environment required, food manufacturing preferred. Any equivalent combination of related education and/or experience may be considered for the above.
- Strong attention to detail.
- Highly organized with strong time management and prioritization skills.
- Self-directed, reliable, strong initiative, and bias for action.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work cooperatively with team members.
- Must be willing and able to work and accept varying shifts and schedules.
Physical Demands:
- Food processing, warehouse, and food laboratory environment.
- The environment may be wet or dry and temperatures may range from 25°F to 110°F.
- Potential exposure to hazardous materials.
- The ability to climb ladders, bend, reach and occasionally lift of up to 40 lbs. may be required.
- Production demands may require overtime and/or evening or weekend scheduling.