Afternoon Shift

**Job description**

**Our Company**

At Niche Bakers we are passionate about baking and giving our customers desserts, snacks and confectionary sweet goods. With over 27 years in the baking industry, Niche Bakers is a respected leader in the creative design and development of sweet goods. We are committed to continuous innovative ideas that to meet the ever-changing demands of our customers. Our talented, dynamic, innovative people have supported us on this success journey, every step of the way. Join our dedicated, hard-working team, come grow with us

We are looking for an experienced, dedicated, career focused **Afternoon** **Quality Assurance Technician**, with a passion for the bakery food industry, to support our growing business. Reporting directly to our Quality Assurance Manager, the QA Technician will take responsibility ownership to ensure that the Company’s quality standards, protocol, and procedures are met, and aligned with regulatory legislative compliance, to the customer’s specifications.

This important position will work closely with the Company’s internal stakeholders and the facilities’ cross-functional operation teams, not limited to - Production, Quality Assurance, R & D, Warehouse & Logistics personnel.

**Job Essentials**
- Critically monitor the product and ingredients produced from start-to-finish process.
- Application of regulatory compliance protocols, policies, and standard operating procedures in accordance to food safety and quality program, relating to product materials, packaging and labelling inspections.
- Ensures product conforms to CFIA, SQF, and customer specification requirements.
- Conducts internal QA audits, compliant with Company’s policies, practices, procedures.
- Provides critical support of new product development and continuous improvement initiatives through integration of the Company’s quality tools to production processes.
- Monitor and test the Company’s Sanitation Program throughout the facility.
- Profiles, evaluates product material for defects and nonconformities to ensure food safety, quality, and customer requirements are being met.
- Responsible for ensuring validation verification activities are completed, including reviews, on-site observation, interviews, and overall quality SOP compliance.
- Reviews Certificate of Analysis (COA’s).
- Controls, monitors, and ensures appropriate product holds and disposition of defect items from production.
- Assists QA Manager/SQF Practioner with document compliance, in the review, maintenance, control of documents relating to product quality process programs.
- Educate and train staff as it pertains to the Company’s Quality programs, (GMP, Food Safety, HACCP, Allergen, etc.).
- Champion, promote, advocate, quality standards achievement and performance improvements throughout the Company.

**Success Factors 'You' bring to the position.**
- Post-secondary education, food science degree and/or food safety program certification.
- Minimum experienced two (2) years of direct Quality Assurance bakery work experience.
- You are an analytical, detail driven, results-oriented, critical thinker.
- Strong communication skills - verbal and written.
- You hold a proven track record of your strong work ethic, demonstrating exceptional capabilities to prioritize, manage competing deadlines, a time resources effectively.
- You thrive in a fast-pace, high-volume (food) production environment, while consistently delivering innovative, creative problem-solving or continuous improvement solutions.
- You have successfully mastered being flexible, adapting, adjusting to stressful changing work assignment demands,
- You are a self-directed professional that works well independently or in a team environment.
- You hold a strong customer focus orientation in your service delivery approach.
- You hold yourself accountable, take pride in your work, and manage working relationships with a high degree of professionalism and integrity,
- Post-secondary education - Food Science degree and/or Food Safety certification program.

**What you can expect from us.**
- The opportunity to join our talented, dynamic, diverse and inclusive teams.
- You will have the opportunity to use your current professional experience, knowledge and skill and grow with us.
- Our supportive team will encourage your success during your professional growth and development in this exciting role.
- You will have opportunities that are meaningful and impactful within the scope of your work assignments. Join us
- Niche Bakers Corp. embraces diversity in the workplace and is committed to achieving employment equity. Our goal is to attract, develop and retain exceptionally talented employees from diverse backgrounds, allowing us to benefit from a wide variety of experiences and perspectives. We ensure that our recruitment practices are supportive of this commitment and do not infringe on any characteristics protected by law._
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