Employee Type:

Full time

Location:

PA Lancaster

Job Type:

Quality Assurance

Job Posting Title:

Quality Assurance Technician

About Us:

TreeHouse Foods (NYSE: THS) is a leading manufacturer of private label packaged foods and beverages, operating a network of production facilities across the United States and Canada. At TreeHouse Foods, our commitment to excellence extends beyond our products and revolves around our people. We are investing in talent and creating a performance-based culture where employees can do their best work, directly impacting our mission to make high quality, affordable food for our customers, communities and families. We hope you will consider joining the team and being part of our future.

What You Gain:

• Competitive compensation and benefits program

• Enrollment in our wellness and employee assistance programs

• Paid holidays, vacation, and other competitive paid time off opportunities

• An inclusive working environment where you can build meaningful work relationships with a diverse group of people

• Leaders who are invested in supporting your career growth

• Opportunities to be recognized for outstanding contributions to yourteam through our employee recognition programs

Job Description:

Quality Technician

Lancaster, PA

About the Role:

Maintains production by operating packing machines. This position is responsible for performing of their respective duties to meet

Performs the day-to-day monitoring, testing and documentation to assure that all processes and practices comply with SQF standards for Food Safety and Quality, as well as other federal regulations and directives in food production. Actively use SAP and Infinity to enter in lab data.

Trouble shoot problems and work with operations to correct. Performs record reviews. Proficient writing skills to detail quality related activities. Assists with special projects.

A focus on standards, regulations and practices related to food safety and food quality and environmental safety is priority.

All procedures and practices used are grounded in standards, regulations and laws addressing occupational safety (OSHA), building and electrical codes, and food safety and food quality (FDA) in addition to environmental safety (EPA) in accordance with Safe Quality Food (SQF) and Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).

Responsibilities:

Assure that quality assurance standards and documents are communicated and enforced by conducting daily inspections

Performs environmental swabbing of production equipment and environment with analysis of results

Prepares written documents describing analysis techniques and test results; writes SOP's and other quality documents and reports

Communicate with all levels of the organization in review of test results, including written and verbal forms

Enters quality-related work orders into SAP

Gather special samples for additional incubation and defects audits as directed

Provide support for sample gathering and data recording for plant trials

Perform audits to verify compliance with established SOP documentation, GMP's, HACCP and Safe Quality Food {SQF) efforts

Assists with the coordination, performance, and documentation remediation of product on hold

Reviews regulatory documentation for product release (i.e., record review)

Maintains inventory of materials related to microbiological testing and coordinates shipments of samples

Participates and leads process improvement projects

Determines SAP usage decisions on bulk deliveries

Updates sampling plans

Maintains product specifications documentation for production

Monitor the HACCP Program and processes, reflecting a focus on continuous improvement with the customer complaint process and the product complaint process, including investigation, analysis, follow up, documentation, trending, and routine internal reporting to leadership.

Important Details

This role works 12-hour shifts from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am

Overtime is mandatory

Pay rate is $20.25 per hour

About You:

You’ll fit right in if you have:

High School, technical school education or equivalent

Ability to be organized, multitask, and keep up with multiple fast-paced machines

Basic math and measuring ability

Ability to use computers for data entry

Ability to work as a team player

Ability to communicate information one-on-one and in small group situations

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At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time”. TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com

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TreeHouse Foods is a private label food and beverage leader focused on customer brands and custom products. When customers partner with TreeHouse they can expect access to an industry-leading portfolio, strategic vision, on-trend innovation and insights, world-class supply chain, operational excellence and flexibility, collaborative approaches, and dedicated customer service.

Our strategy is to be the leading supplier of private label food and beverage products by providing the best balance of quality and cost to our customers. We engage with retail grocery, food away from home, and industrial and export customers, including most of the leading grocery retailers and foodservice operators in the United States and Canada. Our portfolio includes a variety of shelf-stable, refrigerated, and snack products.

Customers can expect comprehensive flavor profiles including natural, organic, and preservative-free ingredients in many categories and packaging formats.TreeHouse Foods is best known for food and beverages produced by our two largest businesses Bay Valley Foods, LLC (including E.D. Smith and Sturm Foods) and TreeHouse Private Brands. With more than 10,000 employees in over 35 plants across the United States, Canada, and Italy, TreeHouse Foods is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

Disability Assistance and EEO Considerations: At TreeHouse Foods, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work to help us “Engage and Delight – One Customer at a Time." TreeHouse Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer that prohibits discrimination or harassment of any type. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Applicants who require an accommodation to participate in the job application or hiring process should contact disability-accommodations@treehousefoods.com

To all recruitment agencies: TreeHouse Foods does not accept unsolicited agency resumes/CVs. Please do not forward resumes/CVs to our careers email addresses, Treehouse Foods employees, or any company location(s). TreeHouse Foods is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes/CVs.