Food Safety Assistant

The Quality Control Technician oversees food safety and quality assurance for large-scale ready-to-eat meal production. This role ensures compliance with FSQA programs, GMPs, and labeling requirements while supporting production leads in monitoring and auditing critical control points. Responsibilities include verifying proper PPE use, equipment safety, cooking temperatures, sanitation practices, and accurate temperature logging across all departments. The technician implements corrective actions as needed, calibrates production and receiving equipment, reviews labels for accuracy, supports food defense and customer complaint investigations, and ensures staff are properly trained in food safety practices. Additional duties are performed as assigned to maintain product quality and regulatory compliance. With the direction of the FSQA Manager, this position is responsible for:

• Monitoring of FSQA programs (including CCP, SSOPs, pest control, GMPs, approved supplier program, foreign material control, plant sanitation, chemical control, product quality assurance)
• Customer complaints, food defense, etc.
• Assisting production leads in auditing these Critical Control Points to ensure product quality and food safety requirements are met
• Implementing corrective actions as needed
• Calibrating thermometers and scales used in production and receiving in accordance with procedures
• Conducting label reviews to assure ingredients and nutritional panels of our product are correct.
• Ensuring compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices & labeling
• Oversights of productions QC checks
• Assist production leads in auditing critical control records and process control points for compliance to product quality, food safety requirements.
• Performing checks in all departments to ensure all standard quality and food safety are met.
• Ensuring all staff receive proper training on the correct food safety practices
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Experience in food processing and food manufacturing in a commissary setting >1yr
• Must have good communication skills (bilingual Spanish highly preferred)
• Proven ability to multitasking
• Demonstrates an understanding of food safety programs (HACCP/Food Safety Plan, GMPs, Environmental monitoring, Allergen control) as it applies to specific plant operations.
• Having a NYC Food Handlers license (Recommended but not required)
• Familiar with commercial kitchen cleaning procedures

Who you are:

• NYC Food Handler’s License (Required)
• At least 1 - 3 years of Food Processing/Manufacturing in a commissary or high-volume setting (Required)
• Understanding of Food Safety Programs (HACCP, GMP, Allergen control, etc) including experience calibrating and reading thermometers (Required)
• Bilingual Strongly Preferred (Spanish)

What We Offer:

Green Top Farms provides benefits including medical insurance, sick leave, paid time off that increases with tenure, commuter benefits and potential for bonuses through our Green Shares employee bonus program.

Green Top Farms is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Job Type: Full-time/Part-time avail (Est 30-40hrs per week)

Schedule: Shifts avail: 7:00AM-3:00PM Sunday through Friday, shifts can start as early as 5:30AM

Reporting To: Food Safety & Quality Assurance Manager