About the Role
Collaborate with Food Safety and Production leadership to maintain Zaro’s standards, focusing on food safety, sanitation, quality assurance, training, productivity, and teamwork.
Responsibilities
- Maintain comprehensive knowledge of Zaro’s food safety program and SQF code.
- Lead quality assurance efforts by partnering with production supervisors, crew leaders, line workers, and sanitation staff.
- Oversee GMP compliance throughout bakery departments and implement corrective actions.
- Audit production lines to verify adherence to Zaro’s Food Safety Guidelines.
- Perform pre-operation inspections.
- Manage allergen control, including swabbing, storage, and control.
- Ensure proper maintenance of lot code records.
- Verify chemical control.
- Conduct weight and sensory assessments.
- Monitor bake and cooling temperatures.
- Perform finished product label checks.
- Monitor temperatures in refrigerated and frozen storage areas.
- Monitor and confirm Critical Control Points across the production shift.
- Comply with all required frequencies for critical control checks.
- Report nonconformities related to finished products, recipes, or raw materials to management.
- Ensure department documentation is accurate and provided to the QA manager.
- Verify lot codes on received raw materials and shipped finished goods.
- Participate in staff training sessions.
- Be an active member of the HACCP team.
- Assist during recalls.
- Actively participate in achieving daily production targets.
- Follow guidance from Production Managers and Supervisors.
- Set work pace, handle multiple tasks, and operate with a strong sense of urgency.
- Protect company property and ensure the safety of others.
Requirements
- Maintain regular and punctual attendance.
- Perform essential duties safely and efficiently, meeting all productivity standards.
- Lift and carry up to 50 lbs.
- Work in both hot and cold environments.
- Stand for long periods.
- May need to squat, reach, bend, pull, push, or move physically in other ways during the shift.
- Read English fluently.
- Collaborate with and positively lead a diverse team.
- Demonstrate mechanical aptitude and basic math proficiency.
- Communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Skills
- Food safety
- Quality assurance
- Sanitation
- SQF code
- GMP compliance
- HACCP
- Allergen management
- Mechanical aptitude
- Basic math proficiency
- Verbal communication
- Written communication
