About the job
About Birdman
Birdman creates plant-based foods with a focus on caring for the planet and its people. The team in Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, is dedicated to quality, food safety, and continuous improvement.
Role Overview: Analytical and Laboratory Assistant
This position plays a key part in Birdman’s quality control team. The role centers on technical leadership in laboratory analysis, supporting food safety, and ensuring products meet internal and external standards.
Main Objectives
- Maintain compliance with production processes according to regulatory, normative, and customer requirements.
- Develop and apply microbiological, analytical, and physicochemical tests to ensure consistent product quality.
- Conduct shelf life and stability studies for new and existing products.
Key Duties and Responsibilities
- Select appropriate analytical techniques for evaluating products and processes.
- Ensure analytical methods for finished products meet regulatory standards and technical data sheet requirements.
- Report non-conformities found in raw materials to suppliers.
- Support evaluation of new products and processes to confirm analytical compliance for new developments.
- Implement and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for the analytical area.
- Work with operations teams to improve analytical methodologies for products.
- Analyze results from analytical, physicochemical, and microbiological tests on finished products to identify trends and recommend preventive actions.
- Coordinate microbiological and physicochemical testing for in-process products, finished goods, and raw materials.
- Respond to customer complaints related to microbiological and physicochemical characteristics of finished products.
- Issue quality alerts to communicate customer complaints or recurring non-conformities.
Location
Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico
