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PepsiCo

Makes salty snacks, sodas and sports drinks

Quality Technician 1

Inspection & TestConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSete Lagoas, Minas Gerais, BrazilNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • High school education and a technical course in Chemistry, Food Science, Veterinary Medicine, Biology, or a related area, or a completed higher-education degree in Chemical Engineering, Food Engineering, Chemistry, Biological Sciences, Food Science, or a related area.

Responsibilities

  • Conduct training on the Quality and Food Safety systems for permanent employees and service providers.
  • Train and certify production operators to perform physical-chemical and sensory quality analyses of raw materials and finished products.
  • Coordinate teams of operators and support areas to resolve Quality and Food Safety issues.
  • Conduct periodic operational audits to ensure effective execution of quality and food safety tools.
  • Support implementation of new quality and Food Safety programs and continuous improvement and maintenance of the Food Safety Management System.
  • Ensure compliance with the Quality and Food Safety Policy and the Health, Safety, and Environment Policy, including correct use of personal protective equipment.
  • Communicate Food Safety matters under the responsibilities and authority assigned by policy.
  • Implement and maintain the Good Laboratory Practices program.
  • Analyze incoming materials and support operations with in-process and finished-product analyses.
  • Develop action plans for out-of-specification analyses of inputs, raw materials, and finished products, including nonconformance reports.
  • Check, calibrate, and clean laboratory equipment and online measurement equipment.
  • Prepare and standardize chemical solutions used in analyses.
  • Prepare standard samples for equipment checks.
  • Maintain laboratory cleanliness and organization.
  • Conduct factory cleaning inspections and releases.
  • Monitor plant pest-control activities.
  • Critically review manufacturing process results, investigate causes, and identify improvement actions.
  • Implement and support Quality 4.0 topics.
  • Conduct daily free residual chlorine analyses.
  • Meet routine activity requirements for Quality and Food Safety.
  • Train operational personnel on key quality tools and qualify operators to perform quality analyses; conduct audits.
  • Audit process lines for compliance with quality procedures and parameters.
  • Investigate consumer complaints with operations, correlating findings with quality and food safety tools and developing action plans.
  • Coordinate work to resolve specific quality problems.
  • Support quality activities related to innovations, including new product launches and promotions.
  • Support work to strengthen the plant's quality culture.
  • Support process and finished-product analyses and quality checks; in cases of nonconformance, instruct operators to retain finished product for evaluation and reanalysis.
  • Meet quality indicators for compliance with internal programs and policies by monitoring action plans.

About the Company

PepsiCo

Makes salty snacks, sodas and sports drinks

PepsiCo makes snack foods and soft drinks that supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants sell around the world. It owns some of the most familiar grocery brands, including Lay's and Doritos chips from its Frito-Lay division and Pepsi, Mountain Dew and Gatorade on the drinks side, along with Quaker oats and cereals. The company runs its own plants and distribution network and earns most of its money selling finished products to retailers and foodservice customers, while partner bottlers produce some of its drinks under license. PepsiCo was formed in 1965 through the merger of Pepsi-Cola and Frito-Lay and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Harrison, NY
Founded
1965

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