Quality Assurance Coordinator - Import/Export

Shafter, CA | Starting at $25/hour DOE

Help Ensure Quality and Food Safety Excellence

Are you detail-oriented with a passion for quality assurance and food safety? We are seeking a Quality Assurance Coordinator to support quality control, food safety, and continuous improvement initiatives within our operations. In this role, you will help maintain product quality, support regulatory compliance, and contribute to building strong customer relationships while ensuring excellence across all products and processes.

Responsibilities

As a Quality Assurance Coordinator, you will:

• Lead and conduct Internal Audits, GMP Audits, and Glass & Hard Plastics Audits to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Assist with customer, regulatory, and third-party certification audits.
• Investigate customer complaints and complete corrective action and root cause analysis reports.
• Analyze and track vendor defects that occur during production.
• Support management with annual employee training programs covering:
  • GMP
  • HACCP
  • Allergens
  • BRC
  • Food Security
  • Food Defense
• Use statistical tools to monitor complaints and quality data for trend analysis and continuous improvement.
• Assist the Quality Manager in updating and reviewing Food Safety Plans in accordance with FSMA requirements.
• Manage corrective and preventive action reports resulting from internal and external audit findings.
• Perform monthly environmental testing to verify sanitation effectiveness throughout the facility.
• Monitor analytical testing, microbiological testing, and temperature records to ensure finished product quality.
• Review daily production records, worksheets, monitoring forms, and computer-generated reports at the end of each shift to ensure accuracy and completeness for product release.
• Observe and enforce Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
• Follow and enforce all company policies and procedures.
• Promote and maintain food safety practices and principles.
• Perform additional duties as assigned.