Queen City Sausage Quality Control Technician
Corporate Summary: Queen City Sausage Company, is a privately-held, family-owned and -operated craft sausage maker that specializes in the manufacturing and distribution of quality sausages and deli meats.
Queen City Sausage is an iconic Cincinnati brand favorite. Founded in 1965, the company serves the tristate through retailers that include: Kroger, Meijer, Walmart, Sam’s, GFS, Remke and many more. Queen City Sausage is the official brat and mett of the Cincinnati Reds and Bengals.
Queen City Sausage distinguishes itself by the following standards: Hand mixed spices. Small batch production. Real hickory wood smoke. No stockpiling. Our founder and president’s motto is simply this; “Never Cheapen Your Products!”
Job Summary: Full time position. Maintains all aspects of Quality Assurance to ensure proper, safe and exceptional quality, operation of the department, and products. Must have some knowledge of fresh and process meat.
This position requires extreme attention to detail. A thorough understanding of HACCP will be applied daily. The ability to document and communicate effectively is a must.
Responsibilities:
· Audits products for quality and safety prior to sending out to customers.
· Audits incoming raw materials for supplier specifications, quality, and food security.
· Reviews incoming ingredients for quality standards.
· Responsible for compliance with all HACCP regulations. Food Safety - plant in proper sanitary condition at all times, including pest control.
· Fills out necessary paperwork for product audits and HACCP documents.
· Reviews HACCP documents prior to handing paperwork to QA Supervisor/Manager.
· Work with operational teams daily with paperwork, quality checks, and HACCP procedures.
· Ensure adherence to all standard work processes, including the Production Sanitation processes.
· Aides in plant training requirements and training frequencies. Work with plant manager and assistant plant manager/HACCP Coordinator to ensure plant training requirements and frequencies are met. Conduct plant training sessions as needed.
· Maintain understanding of processes and functional interdependencies. Recognize and escalate, as needed, those issues identified as risks to, or opportunities to improve, plant performance.
· Must be able to work within timelines and in pressure situations.
· Other duties may be assigned.
· Work Environment: Regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and moving mechanical parts; frequently exposed to extreme cold.
· “All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected veteran status or status as an individual with disability.”
· Contact: Patrick Miller, Director of Operations, Queen City Sausage Co. patmiller@queen citysausage.com