Quality Assurance Engineer Food

Internship: Quality Assurance Engineer Food Breda, Noord-Brabant Our client mixes, packs and repacks food ingredients for national and international brand owners who, like them, set high standards when it comes to quality, service and reliability. They work with the most advanced equipment and in accordance with the highest standards, in a state-of- the-art production facility. Gluten-free, allergen-free, Kosher and Halal: they do it all. In this internship you will research and investigate the hygiene and cleaning processes of the production plant. This research will result in recommendations and changes and the implementation of new procedures and methods. The process can take longer than the internship project. Therefor it can be that your internship will a part of this process and that you take over or will leave the next part to another intern. Important tasks and content of the internship: - Investigating cleaning procedure to remove potential food safety hazards (microorganisms, chemical residues, physical contamination) from equipment and tools to prevent cross-contamination. - Recommend and develop Cleaning Validation standards to be used after changes to cleaning agents, cleaning parameters, formulas, equipment and production lines. - Filter out negative trends and monitor and improve the process. - Investigate, improve and recommend risk assessments - Concerning food-contact and indirect food-contact surfaces, make an inventory of worst-case products, hard to clean areas, dead ends, gaskets, joints, valves and equipment with the highest residue risk. - Determine allergens risk and take it into account for validation - Check the cleaning validation requirements customers demand and check them with the current situation to implement them. - Set up Validation protocols (objective, Identified contaminants (microbiological, chemical and physical) worst case scenarios, number of validations, test methods, acceptance cri...