Job Description

Position Summary:

The FSQA Technician supports the Food Safety & Quality Assurance department by performing routine quality checks, maintaining documentation, and ensuring the facility remains audit-ready. This role enables the FSQA Director to focus on strategic food safety initiatives while maintaining day-to-day compliance with regulatory and customer requirements.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review, organize, and archive production, sanitation, and quality records (digital & physical).
• Perform environmental monitoring swabs and ship samples to accredited laboratories.
• Conduct internal GMP/food safety walkthroughs and support pre-audit preparation.
• Assist with customer documentation requests (spec sheets, COAs, allergen/GMO statements, certifications).
• Maintain sample retain program and coordinate shelf-life and product validation studies.
• Support finished product and in-process quality checks (packaging integrity, coding, weights, labeling).
• Help manage document control: SOP updates, revision logs, controlled copies.
• Track corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs) and verify completion.
• Maintain supplier approval records (questionnaires, LOGs, audit certificates, COAs).
• Assist with employee food safety/GMP training activities.
• Monitor calibration/verifications (scales, thermometers, magnets, metal detectors).
• Compile data for FSQA KPI dashboards (complaints, EMP trends, audit scores).

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, Chemistry, or a related technical field or equivalent experience in FSQA
• Working knowledge of GMPs, HACCP, allergen control; SQF or other GFSI scheme familiarity a plus.
• Strong organizational and recordkeeping skills; comfort with digital document systems.
• Good written and verbal communication skills for audit/customer interaction.

Work Environment:

Primarily plant-floor and office setting with routine exposure to manufacturing areas.

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