Associate Quality Job Description
Associate Quality Duties & Responsibilities
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Associate Quality Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Associate Quality
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: ASQ, CQE, CQA, GS1, ISTQB, ISEB, QP, QE, EPIC, RA
Education for Associate Quality
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the associate quality job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Guidance, Engineering, Science, Chemistry, Education, Technical, Biology, Business, Computer Science, Manufacturing
Skills for Associate Quality
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Desired experience for associate quality includes:
Associate Quality Examples
Associate Quality Job Description
- Responsible for the sharing of audit best practices and deficiencies across the company to improve performance and scores at facilities
- Knowledge of GFSI Benchmarked Schemes (namely SQF and BRC), GMP’s, Sanitation, Pest Control, Food Safety and HACCP systems, Training, Allergens, Operations, Personnel Practices and applicable programs/regulations
- Performs a variety of projects/studies in areas that may include Product/Process, sterilization, Cleaning and Equipment Validation, projects/studies to support manufacturing
- Writes/Reviews protocols, reports (GTRs), Change Controls (including MARs)
- Handles routine tasks timely, accurately
- Interfaces with other department to understand audit requirements
- Assist with auditing of facilities, providing assessments of capability, identifying gaps, and working with project teams
- Execute appropriate inspection criteria to determine degree of compliance with necessary departments
- Document all observations, corrective actions, and initiate enforcement action where warranted
- Clearly and concisely capture audit findings to provide recipients of the report unambiguous actionable items
- Statistical and Analytical Skills – Strong technical and analytical skills
- Basic problem solving background
- Self-driven, demonstrated ownership & responsibility
- Minimum of 3 years experience in Quality Assurance or Manufacturing
- Knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma for Manufacturing
- Knowledge of site processes
Associate Quality Job Description
- Provide leadership in training for food safety and quality related topics
- Assist with Regulatory audits, 3rd Party inspections, corporate audits, customer inspections when necessary
- Respond promptly, effectively and accurately to consumer complaints
- Maintain effective working relationships with all employees, working closely with managers and Group Leaders
- Serve as positive emissary through interactions with suppliers, customers, vendors, commercial laboratories, custom packagers, government agencies, and warehouses
- Provides back-up for Manager Plant Quality and Quality Technicians
- Prepare packages for finished goods inventory by verifying product has a quality control label, preparing the product for packaging, compiling and packaging associated peripherals, and applying a finished goods barcode label
- Communicate rejection issues to the supervisor
- Coordinate with Manufacturing Operations staff for routine analytical testing and activities
- Perform trend analysis and lot release reporting of analytical data
- University degree in Science or related discipline preferred
- Three to five years’ experience in a Quality function required, preferably in a manufacturing environment
- Highly motivated, able to work independently part of a team
- BS in Food, Biological or Chemical Science or related field required
- Knowledge of food safety, food manufacturing processes, technologies or other relevant area of responsibility
- Knowledge of government regulatory requirements in food (GFSI, FSMA, FDA, USDA)
Associate Quality Job Description
- Provide training and qualifies plant resources
- Leads ongoing daily SNC activities
- Coordinate reschedule schedule by reviewing and distributing re-evaluation assignments
- Reports findings to operations, quality, sales and marketing teams
- Knowledge of analytical techniques and procedures
- Check the written instructions, illustrations, master pattern and garment for accuracy and consistency
- Check the garment description, fabric layouts, yardages, notions, technical line art for accuracy and consistency
- Create guide sheets
- Responsible for checking the entire completed envelope for clarity, accuracy and coordination of all components
- Lead, participate and draft Global FA Plans with global cross-functional teams for FAs
- Microsoft Office/Suite proficient (Outlook, Word, Excel, Project, and PowerPoint)
- Occasionally must climb stairs or ladders, balance, bend or stoop, crouch or squat
- Developing command of interpersonal communication, organizational and problem-solving skills
- Set priorities among multiple tasks
- Certification (ASQ Certified Quality Engineer, Six Sigma) required
- Ability to sit, walk and/or stand for up to 8 hours a day
Associate Quality Job Description
- On-request tasks from team lead and Head of Marketplace Operations
- Evaluation of batch manufacturing records and testing records
- Review and release of raw materials per associated specifications
- Follow-up on preventive and corrective actions associated with deviations, lab investigations and Environmental Excursions
- Provides back up for other QA and plant site personnel as appropriate
- The monitoring of compliance with the requirement of GMP
- Partner with Pharma Development QA in the preparation, execution and follow-up of audits on clinical development activities
- Provide support prior to, during and after HA inspections of the CPO, investigational sites or external service providers, as applicable, together with the Novartis inspection lead
- Responsible for leading the facilities HACCP/Food Safety team including the responsibility for performing all hazard analysis on any new raw material or equipment introduced to the facility
- Establishes and maintains detailed written procedures for the cleaning of all processing equipment in the facility
- Overtime can be frequent and often work volumes cannot be predicted in advance
- Candidate must be professional, verbally and in writing, and possess a positive approach with people
- Tremendous attention to detail and strong commitment to error-free work
- Act as QA Approver for Laboratory Out of Specification (OOS) , for Quality System Change Controls (CC) and in Non- conformance or /Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA)
- Minimum of 1 to 3 years industry experience required
- Frequent bending and/or potential crawling
Associate Quality Job Description
- Communicate detailed experimental information both verbally and in technical reports
- Create and inventory samples required for product testing
- Prepare and operate various lab equipment included Instrons, photo-microscopes, calipers, diameter gauges, and hand-held tensile machines
- Organize all data and input into various databases
- Write summaries and final reports
- Distribute all necessary summaries and reports to applicable recipients
- Lead / Support quality engineering activities which support manufacturing at the Saxonburg Plant
- Provide specialized training via in person training and ELearning platforms
- Partners with service teams to provide updates to internal/external knowledge basis
- Provide training on CRM systems such as Salesforce service console for WK Sales teams
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Outlook / Excel / Powerpoint)
- Experience working with Government deliverables preferred
- Experience working with version-control applications preferred
- Applicable or related experience in clinical laboratory, analytical development
- 3 Years Experience working in Quality Control/Assurance in a Manufacturing Setting
- Experience in GMPs and EN46001/ISO-9001 preferred