Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Technician - Flex Shift
AeroFarms
- Danville, VA
- $20.00 per hour
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Researching and understanding plants to be better, more intuitive farmers
- Elevating local communities by increasing access to nutritious, high-quality, consistent, and safe products in a way that’s better for you and the planet.
- Protecting and sustaining our environment for future generations
- Pioneering consistent, and scalable indoor vertical farming food safety & traceability practices, and manufacturing standards
- Investing in our AeroFarms humans and fostering our diverse company culture of inclusion, equity, excellence, teachability, and curiosity.
- Monitoring and documenting all food safety programs.
- Responsible for monitoring product safety throughout the manufacturing process and to ensure the product meets AeroFarms’ standards and specifications.
- Support compliance, monitoring, and trending of key programs including but not limited to GAP/GMP, Pest Prevention, Internal Auditing, Microbiological, and Environmental Monitoring.
- Report food safety and quality non-conformances and deviations to Food Safety Supervisor. Placing the product on hold and further evaluation.
- Enforce GMP and Food Safety policies to ensure that Aerofarms quality standards are always maintained.
- Monitors food safety alerts on an ongoing basis; and effectively communicates to all functional departments on food safety information and updates.
- Generate value for AeroFarms by anticipating, analyzing, solving, and preventing problems.
- Perform Pre-Operational Inspections before start-up and report any inadequacies to the Food Safety Supervisor.
- Complies with the enforcement of all GMP policies, documentation, and record-keeping per company standards.
- Special assignments upon request from the Sr. Manager, Food Safety and Quality Assurance
- High School Diploma
- 1-2 years of experience in a food manufacturing environment or lab and knowledge of food safety (required).
- Bilingual (English/Spanish) desired
- Proficient computer skills required. Experience operating in a Windows environment, managing files, and handling data.
- Strong interpersonal skills, including conflict resolution.
- Ability to work in a challenging and fast-paced environment with changing practices.
- Must be able to communicate effectively.
- Must be able to read, write, understand, and speak basic English (required).
- Ability to respect and maintain confidential information.
- Ability to work within a team environment.
- Ability to lift, push, or pull up to 30 lbs.
- Must be able to work independently and within a team.
- Must have time management skills to meet certain deadlines.
- Must be detailed oriented and organized.
- Must have good communication skills.
- Must have good basic math skills.
- Must be able to work in a cold environment (about 34 degrees F) for long periods of time.
- Availability to work weekends is a must.