Build your career with Alto Ingredients! Earn a competitive salary, benefits including Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance and 401k with a company dollar-for-dollar match up to 6%, a stipend for fitness center expenses, a generous paid time off (PTO) program, and service awards for career longevity. Alto Ingredients values the communities where we work and live and offers an extra 8 hours of paid leave for employees who volunteer their time and talents in their community.
Environment: Alto Ingredients, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTO) is a leading producer and distributor of specialty alcohols, renewable fuels and essential ingredients. Leveraging the unique qualities of its facilities, the company serves customers in a wide range of consumer and commercial products in the Health, Home & Beauty; Food & Beverage; Industry & Agriculture; Essential Ingredients; and Renewable Fuels markets. For more information, please visit www.altoingredients.com.
Our Pekin campus produces products destined for Health, Home& Beauty; Food and Beverage; Industry & Agriculture; Essential Ingredients; and Renewable Fuels markets. All personnel are responsible for the safety of these products, which includes participation in training, following cGMP and feed/food safety requirements in the facility, and following procedures per instruction of management.
Job Purpose: This position is responsible for assisting the management of the quality management system for the Pekin Campus, assisting in the preparation of documentation for customer and regulatory audits, and to support overall company continuous improvement in processes, products, and services.
The following is a list of major duties and responsibilities for this position along with certain supportive duties. It is not all-inclusive. Other duties and responsibilities may be added as needed and in addition, management may modify this job description as needed.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Assist Director of Quality with the feed safety and food safety programs (HACCP, FSC 36, FSSC 22000, etc.) for the Pekin campus.
- Assist Director of Quality with the quality management system (ISO 9001) for the corporation.
- Investigate and analyze quality incidents, including but not limited to, customer complaints, nonconformances, etc., determine contributing factor(s) or cause(s), and recommend required corrective measure to prevent recurrence.
- Aid the administrator of the electronic quality management system in maintaining the system and ensure all proper documentation is audit ready within the system.
- Perform monthly cGMP inspections for the Pekin campus.
- Review weekly pest management reports and follow up on recommendations and corrective actions.
- Review monthly cleaning sheets for the Pekin campus.
- Retain critical regulatory documentation, such as critical control point records, sanitary transport forms, etc.
- Issue and reconcile serialized worksheets for pharmaceutical batch records.
- Review the batch records for pharmaceutical batches manufactured.
- Conduct in-person, quality onboarding training for new hires for the Pekin campus.
- Serve as an internal auditor for environmental, safety, and quality internal audits for the Pekin campus.
- Perform data analysis for annual product quality reviews, environmental monitoring trending, and other functions.
- Maintain all raw material supplier and service supplier documentation and obtain current version of documentation, as needed.
- Assist other departments with creation and updating of standard operating procedures (SOPs), forms, etc.
- Assist operations and reliability with compiling and retaining critical regulatory records.
- Prepare documentation and participate in, as needed, quality audits for the Pekin campus.
- Assist Director of Quality with sustainability reporting, as needed.
Position Requirements:
- 4-year college degree in scientific related field or equivalent combination of experience and education.•
- 1-2 years practical laboratory instrumentation experience (HPLC, GC) preferred
- Industrial / Processing plant experience preferred
- Team player
- Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Ability to handle multiple tasks
- Adept at learning new processes
- Valid driver’s license
Physical Requirements:
- Must be able to work in cold to hot temperatures; work around dust, fumes, and/or moderate to loud noises; works inside and/or outside;
- Able to climb stairs and ladders; walk on paved and unpaved surfaces; sit at a desk and operate a computer and keyboard; visual acuity to review written documentation; ability to hear, speak, and understand speech at normal room levels and on the telephone; manual dexterity to operate a telephone; lift horizontally and vertically, bend, stoop, stand, and reach;
- Ability to work at elevated heights
- Work environment involves some exposure to hazards or physical risks, which require following basic safety precautions.
Criminal background check and drug screen required.
Alto Ingredients, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.