Quality Assurance Technician

Job Posting:
Wonderbrands is a leading North American bakery company with a specialized focus across key bakery categories, including breads & rolls; alternatives breads, and others. We are the makers of Wonder®Bread, Country Harvest®, D'Italiano®, Gadoua®, and Casa Mendosa tortillas. We bake our products in 12 facilities across Canada, conducting our business with integrity, contributing to our communities, and fostering a respectful culture. We are building a culture of success here, and it depends on our people striving for greatness and having the courage and commitment to getting better every day.

As we forge ahead in the transformation of our business, we are coming together as a united North American enterprise, rebuilding our asset base, adding significant new capacity, and focusing on the development of our people. These building blocks are essential to moving forward as a growth-focused, insights-driven, consumer-led company that will celebrate food and the central part that food plays in our life.

**Job Address**: 120 Carrier Dr Etobicoke, ON M9W 5R1

**Position**: Quality Assurance Technician

**CORE ACCOUNTABILITIES**:

- Maintains and makes recommendations on the bakery Quality Management Systems (QMS) programs with a Premier Bakery lens and ensure that product food safety and quality are achieved and meet and exceeds our customers standards.
- Ensures existing programs are up to date and meet all corporate and legislative requirements
- Conducts record reviews and on-site verifications to ensure current operational excellence matching the written program in a timely manner.
- Supports the Development of Food Safety and Quality training, with the QSL and conducts training on food safety and quality requirements for all employees in the bakery.
- Manages product specification verification and documentation, including updating production floor documents to ensure compliance.
- Examines incoming raw materials, process and finished products to make sure they comply with quality and food safety standards
- Verifies packaging operation to ensure correct packaging, labelling, production codes, best before marking and carton labelling
- Conducts sampling of the plant environment and equipment, water, raw materials and finished products for microbiological and/ or analytical testing / sensory evaluation
- Supports Trials/first production approval runs in keeping with compliance to Stage Gate protocols.
- Performs line inspections that may include visual inspection or ATP / Allergen swabbing and equipment release, or CCP verifications.
- Hold of product or ingredient control and disposition
- Monitors schedule for finished product testing and holds, including the use of SAP
- Assists with the maintenance of all HACCP programs
- Accountable for preparation and participation in all internal/ third party/ CFIA and/or FDA audits
- Completes non-conformance reports for any out of compliance situation or food safety incidents and is responsible for follow up on corrective actions for ingredients/packaging and finished products.
- Completes inspections for glass and brittle plastics, pest control,, and overall plant food safety
- Reports and logs analytical test results for each line and ensure compliance to WF and/or customer specifications
- Trends data for foreign object findings and creates risk assessment
- Completes shift reports and audit sheets
- Performs certificate of analysis reviews and data entry and filing
- Trend ATP analysis, swab micro results and investigate out of spec findings.
- Trends critical to quality data using SPC tools (ie: IPM) to verify product is compliant to specifications.
- Prepares Non Conformance reporting for incoming ingredient or packaging deviations.

**ABOUT YOU**:

- Post secondary in a food safety/ quality related program.
- 1 to 2 years experience in a quality control food manufacturing setting.
- Good working knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
- Strong oral and written communication in English
- Ability to partner with all levels of production from Operators to Supervisors
- Flexible and willing to work overtime where required (in busy season)

If you’re excited about this opportunity and love baked goods, we invite you to apply

Wonderbrands is committed to fostering a work environment with strong core values that support diversity through various policies, programs and activities that encourage sensitivity and accommodations. Wonderbrands offers employment regardless of race, colour, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, or sexual orientation. Diversity is integral to our success as an organization and we will use diversity as a model to help identify and develop the best talent, create effective teams, and achieve overall excellence. In addition, we believe that compliance with laws is about doing the right thing. Upholding the law is part of our Code of Conduct - it reinforces what our customers and stakeholders expec