Quality Assurance Technician

Location: Ontario
Posted on: June 23, 2025

Job Description:

Quality Assurance Technician Job Duties: • Interprets and implements quality assurance standards to ensure quality and food safety. • Reviews quality assurance standards, studies existing quality and food safety policies and procedures, and interviews QA Technicians, Team Leaders and Line Operatives to evaluate effectiveness of quality assurance program. • Works with the Quality Assurance Team to maintain all relevant certifications (i.e. SQF) and to remain in good standing with all relevant regulatory bodies (i.e. USDA, FDA). • Aids in the maintenance of the environmental monitoring program, ATP swabbing, and verification of sanitation practices. • Performs routine chemical and physical analysis on finished product, including sensory evaluations. • Maintain the QA Laboratory equipment clean and troubleshoot as needed. Helps QA Team with inventory of items in the QA laboratory. • Reviews and evaluates production records, applying quality assurance criteria. • Support pre-requisite programs within the facility such as GMP’s, sanitation, maintenance, pest control, supplier approval, food defense, chemical control, customer complaints, etc. • Performs routine internal audits and inspections of facilities, processes, policies and personnel. • Place product on hold when necessary. Perform weekly inventory of product placed on hold. • Evaluate and analyze raw materials. • Able to assist R&D on sample collection, product formulation, and commercialization if required. • Additional duties as required. Qualifications: • Minimum of 2 years’ experience working in the food industry. • Quality Assurance experience required. • Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or Biological Sciences, is a plus • Excellent communication skills-written, verbal and interpersonal • Flexibility to work in AM and PM shift, weekends and overtime. • Proficient in Microsoft Office suite: Excel, Word, PowerPoint; able to learn new programs • Knowledge of GMP, HACCP, Food Safety and Food Labeling (FDA and USDA). • Ability to work in a manufacturing environment with 80% percent of the time being in a production or laboratory setting. Ability to stand, stoop, kneel, wipe, reach, bend and safely lift to 35 lbs. High School diploma or equivalent required. Bilingual (English/Spanish preferred) preferred. Friday-Tuesday 1st shift: 4am-1230pm $19.00/ hr Ontario, CA Please send resume to mariavelasco@elitestaffinginc.com All employees of Elite Staffing must be 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States. Elite Staffing, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status. All employees of Elite Staffing must be 18 years or older and authorized to work in the United States. Elite Staffing, Inc. is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our policy of equal employment opportunity is to recruit, hire, train and promote persons without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, handicap or any other protected status.CB3

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