Quality Control/quality Assurance Technician

**Job description**

**About Sunco Foods**
Sunco Foods Inc. is a fast growing business, specializing in the manufacturing of nut butters and the importing and distribution of raw nuts, dried fruits and seeds. Focusing on consumer trends since 2009, our teams work diligently to provide exceptional products and customer service. We are committed to partnering with our customers to grow their business by providing quality products competitively priced.

**Quality Control / Quality Assurance (QC/QA) Technician**

The Quality Control / Quality Assurance (QC/QA) Technician plays a crucial role in ensuring that all incoming materials, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished products meet established quality standards and regulatory requirements. This position involves conducting routine inspections, verifying product quality, and assisting in the implementation of food safety programs. The technician will also be responsible for monitoring production processes, investigating product faults, and ensuring compliance with industry regulations such as HACCP and SQF.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Perform routine inspections and quality tests to ensure incoming materials, WIP and finished good products align with established quality standards and specifications.
- Perform verification of product. Ensure the quantity and quality of material received meets standards required.
- Assist QA Department in Implementing, verifying, and validating regulatory compliance of food safety programs and processes in all areas including, but not limited to, transportation, storage, purchasing, equipment, training, sanitation, pest control, recall, and allergens
- Communicating product quality and food safety standards and procedures to employees, supervisors, and other staff; auditing production lines to ensure compliance within specifications..
- Assist in follow up, investigations and issue any corrective actions, if necessary, based on deviations found in plant process (e.g. HOLD) or resulting from customer complaints and RMAs
- Responsible for monitoring, inspecting and proposing measures to correct or improve the products at various stages of production to meet quality standards.
- Ensure facility and equipment are ready for operation each day
- review of documents / records on the floor, investigate product faults, conduct root cause analysis, and provide feedback
- Responsible for verification of QA/QC daily records
- Responsible for the inventory of laboratory supplies, QC / QA / Production records
- Perform pre-operation inspection and environmental monitoring program and ensure all relevant parts of equipment and areas of the facility are covered thru program. Ensure results are populated/updates in Environmental Monitoring Matrix
- Required to move between shifts/weekends for vacation and production scheduling support
- Following Company policies and procedures, including Company safety policies and procedures, as well as those set out by WorkSafeBC.
- Other duties (QC technician tasks, sample request inquiries, other projects) as assigned
- Conduct relevant physical, chemical and organoleptic testing on ingredients, raw materials, and finished product.
- Manage sample collection per production run. Collect samples at various stages of production.
- Conduct in-process and finished product inspection as required
- Monitor and review incoming paperwork to ensure accuracy of information including but not limited to: supplier name, lot number, origin, and Quantity.

**Requirements, Skills & Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology or Chemistry
- Prior experience performing quality checks in a food manufacturing facility
- Prior experience managing products’ quality compliance.
- Safe Food for Canadian Regulations / HACCP / SQF
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present effectively to groups
- Two to three years of related food industry experience
- Ability to balance multiple priorities and ensure significant issues are communicated clearly to relevant stakeholders in a timely manner
- Strong analytical skills required for data interpretation and analysis
- Proficiency with MS Office
- Must be able to interface effectively with a wide variety of associates
- Possess ability to communicate concepts, systems, procedures, etc., in a training environment
- Experience in training large groups is beneficial
- Must possess leadership ability to inspire others to achieve desired results
- Flexible and adaptable to learning and understand new technologies

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: From $19.00 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Dental care
- Extended health care
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Day shift
- Evening shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed

Work Location: In person