Quality Control Technician

About The Opportunity

At Medifast, our team members are relentless in our mission of driving Lifelong Transformation, Making a Healthy Lifestyle Second Nature. When you join Medifast, you become part of a dynamic, fast-growing community of highly motivated, like-hearted people who share a passion for promoting health and wellness. Just as OPTAVIA Coaches inspire Clients to reach their personal wellness goals, at Medifast, we inspire each other to bring our best to work each day to further our shared mission. If you want to build a rewarding career that makes lives better on a daily basis, Medifast may be the perfect place for you.

Overview Of Position

The Quality Control Technician is responsible for capturing sensory, analytical, physical and microbial data to help drive the manufacture of Safe Quality Foods process. This person collaborates with other departments to help drive consistency in product manufacturing and ensure that products meet the Quality needs and expectations of Medifast customers.

Opportunity Highlights

The Quality Control Technician plays a vital role in ensuring the production of safe, high-quality food products by conducting sensory, analytical, physical, and microbial testing. This position supports continuous improvement and cross-functional collaboration to uphold Medifast's commitment to health and wellness. It's an opportunity to contribute to a mission-driven organization focused on lifelong transformation and healthy living.

Job Responsibility

1. Evaluate in-house and co-manufacture products using approved sensory and analytical methods to ensure conformance to specification.

2. Inspect production line start up, ingredients and packaging conformance per current SOP.

3. Verify Preventive and critical control points for each manufacturing line during production as per current Food Safety Plan.

4. Verify, test, and approve production equipment for proper cleaning and sanitation prior to product changeovers. Direct cleaning as necessary and communicate any failures to supervisor.

5. Support consumer complaint investigations by evaluating product, and reviewing documentation.

6. Collect and send samples out to a 3rd party lab, follow up, record and report results to supervisor.

7. Carry out and moderate panel tastings when necessary.

8. Promptly communicate and report non-conformance or incident during shift to the supervisor.

9. Adhere to Good Laboratory Practices at all times.

10. Participate in professional development trainings to continue to drive improvement.

11. Support continuous improvement efforts within the lab, and manufacturing, for instance LSS projects.

Knowledge, Education, Skills & Abilities

This individual is responsible for working cross departmentally primarily with plant management, production, regulatory personnel, purchasing, and co-packers. Candidate must possess strong interpersonal skills along with verbal and written communications. Strong teamwork and project management skills.

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science and Chemistry, Biotechnology, or related science field or equivalent experience preferred.
• 2-3 years of experience in food or pharmaceutical production required.
• 2 years of QA/QC Technician experience in food or pharmaceutical / QC production preferred.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Team oriented.
• Basic computer skills using Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

At Medifast, Relationships Are At The Center Of What We Do!

We thrive by elevating our connections with one another as well as with our Coaches & Clients. We believe that everyone has the potential to be OUTSTANDING. The Medifast culture is built on seven core values: integrity, courage, teaming, accountability, empowerment, partnership and diversity. These values aren't just words on a page - they are celebrated as a core part of the company's philosophy.

We Lead By

Mastering Relationships: We build trust, promote collaboration and we are reliable.

Being Innovative: We strive to improve things in our areas of influence; test, refine and expand within the business strategy; and reach beyond real and perceived boundaries.

Simplifying: We are committed to making things measurable, repeatable and scalable; focusing on outcomes not activities; and eliminating complexity to increase focus.

Anticipating: We predict long-term business and organizational needs; challenge assumptions; and expect and prepare for the unexpected.

About Medifast

Medifast (NYSE: MED) is the 40+ year old health and wellness company known for its habit-based and coach-guided lifestyle solution OPTAVIA , which provides people with a simple, yet comprehensive approach to address obesity and support a healthy life. OPTAVIA provides unparalleled coaching support along with community, tailored nutrition and healthy habits, and empowers people to master their weight loss journey through each stage of life. Through the company's collaboration with national virtual primary care provider LifeMD (Nasdaq: LFMD) and its affiliated medical group, customers now have access to GLP-1 medications where clinically appropriate. Medifast remains committed to its mission of offering Lifelong Transformation, Making a Healthy Lifestyle Second Nature. Visit MedifastInc.com and OPTAVIA .com for more information and follow @Medifast on X and LinkedIn .

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