Qc Technician

At Vitalus Nutrition, we excel in transforming milk into specialized dairy ingredients. With over 30 years of experience as one of Canada's top dairy ingredient producers, we've evolved from a small family-owned business into a trusted international supplier of specialty ingredients for large-scale processors and top-tier brands. Our mission is to "Improve lives by unlocking the nutritional value of milk," achieved by harnessing high-quality Canadian milk and converting it into specialized ingredients for the nutritional and industrial sectors.

**Bringing Milk to Life**

We continually strive to enhance our work environment, provide a safe workplace, communicate company information, encourage employee collaboration, and provide ongoing training to assist employees in performing their current job and preparing for career opportunities.

We pride ourselves on creating a healthy, respectful, and safe work environment where managers and co-workers care about who you are and support you in learning this new role. This relates to our core values of CARE, INTEGRITY and EXPERTISE.

**POSITION OVERVIEW**:
The primary role of the Quality Control Technician position is to complete Quality Control (QC) activities and testing required for the manufacture of food products for Vitalus Nutrition. The QC Technician is a member of the Quality Department and provides support to other roles within the department as required.

**Key Responsibility Areas**:

- Perform all chemical, physical, and organoleptic tests in the scope of testing trending of analytical data.
- Perform environmental swabbing and water sample collecting.
- Assist in process/product/assay validation protocols, testing, planning, performing, and reporting.
- Contribute to the writing, review, and completion of standard operating procedures and other document control documents.
- Data entry into ERP (both the microbiological and analytical results) for COA creation, trending, and QA review.
- Report and/or troubleshoot any discrepancies or lack of information on samples submitted (to the microbiological testing labs or for the analytical testing samples).

**Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Ability)**:

- Knowledge of a range of Regulatory Requirements, Operating Procedures (SOPs), Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Laboratory Practices (GLP).
- Good knowledge of quality control statistics and documentation, as well as adherence to standard operating procedures.
- Maintains an awareness of new and emerging methods in quality control and laboratory testing equipment
- Time management skills, multitasking skills, and the ability to prioritize tasks within a fast-paced environment.
- Evaluate problems, make rational recommendations and implement solutions.
- Deal with changes, delays, or unexpected events in a calm and timely manner.
- Demonstrates effective interpersonal, listening, and presentation skills.
- Finds ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs and focus on improving quality, business/scientific processes, products and systems.
- Identifies patterns and cause and effect relationships, and knows what information is missing. Generates recommendations, ideas and solutions.

**Minimum Qualifications**:

- Bachelor of Science degree or equivalent, with a concentration in Chemistry/Microbiology and two years of experience; or
- Associate Degree in Science with an emphasis in analytical instrument testing, preferably, and three years experience in a laboratory; or experience with analytical and microbiological procedures related to foods preferred.
- Experience with analytical and microbiological procedures related to foods preferred.
- Capability to work in a team environment with varied departments and diverse personalities.
- Highly detail-oriented with good oral and written communication skills.
- Interest in quality control related to food products, testing, and implementation of new approaches in analysis.

**Salary**: From $50,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Profit sharing
- RRSP match
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision care
- Wellness program

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay

Work Location: In person