Quality Assurance Technician

**WE ARE RECRUITING FOR A QUALITY ASSURANCE TECHNICIAN AT OUR BOBCAYGEON LOCATION**

**WORK HARD. HAVE FUN. GROW WITH US**

**Small Town Culture Competitive Pay Great Benefits Family-Owned**

**Yes, you even get FREE ICE CREAM**

**A Little Bit About Us**:
For the past 85 years, Kawartha Dairy has been proud to be a 100% Canadian-owned company, still operated by the same family that founded it in 1937. Although the company has grown tremendously from its early days, it remains headquartered in the lakeside community of Bobcaygeon, Ontario, where it was founded, near Peterborough, an hour north of the GTA.

Today Kawartha Dairy operates 10 retail stores and services a wide range of customers, from grocery stores to foodservice establishments and of course, ice cream parlours.

Reflecting the explosive growth in the brand and the business as a whole, Kawartha Dairy has recently constructed a 54,000-square-foot warehouse just south of Bobcaygeon to serve its provincial operations. Investments are also underway to modernize the production plant, our systems and our infrastructure.

As the Quality Assurance Technician reporting to the Quality Assurance Supervisor, your goal in this position will be to direct examination of product to ensure that quality standards and procedures are met and aligned with legislation and customer specifications. Requiring a high level of attention to detail, the Quality Assurance Technician is responsible for strictly adhering to the company’s quality assurance policies, and identifying defects to prevent these products from entering the supply chain.

Kawartha Dairy is committed to growing our company culture of super-friendly staff, above-and-beyond customer service and of course creating a fabulous collection of ice cream and other products.

**We at Kawartha Dairy live by our five values**:

- **We are Family**
- **We Enjoy Our Work**
- **We are Customer Obsessed**
- **We are Small Town Canada**
- **We are Proud of Our Quality**

**What You’ll Love About Us**:

- **Financial Peace of Mind. **Competitive wage. Generous annual performance bonus program.
- **The Health Benefits are On Us. **Comprehensive group benefits (vision, dental, prescription, travel plans) at no cost to you for single/family monthly premiums
- **Grow with Us. **An opportunity for career development in a growing, dynamic Canadian-owned company and an amazing company Culture
- **Prepare for the Future. **RRSP with a generous company match
- **Perks, Perks, Perks **Discount on products sold in our retail stores, free daily dairy beverages (we do make awesome milk) provided in all our company fridges, boots & uniforms provided, active social committee. And the best thing about working at Kawartha Dairy - you get FREE ICE CREAM

**What You’ll Do**:
**Support overnight Sanitation and Production activities; schedule includes weekends; there are future opportunities for rotational shifts.**

**Conduct standardized tests on food and beverages to ensure compliance to standards**
- Factors considered are microbiological, physical, and chemical composition
- Products included in testing are fluid milk and creams, soft serve ice cream mix, yoghurt mix, frozen desserts, and incoming ingredients.

**Evaluate retained product samples on organoleptic properties to verify shelf life**
- Taste or smell food and or beverages to ensure flavor meets specifications
- Taste or smell food and or beverages to ensure specific characteristics on select samples
- Microbiological testing as required

**Provide ongoing monitoring of production processes**
- Monitor quality considerations for processes involved in both fluid production and ice cream production
- Liaise regularly and maintain working relationships with various on-site groups (e.g. production personnel)
- Assists the QA Supervisor/Manager with supporting the facility’s HACCP Program to meet corporate food safety strategy and quality standards
- Provides recommendations to improve the facility’s quality system based on analysis of data relative to food safety and quality performance
- Promotes a quality culture among all personnel. Provides HACCP, GMP and other training as per company quality manual to all personnel.

**Interpret test results and document or record information**
- Enter, transcribe, record, store or maintain information in hard copy or electronic means
- Record and compile test results and prepare graphs, charts, and reports
- Assists Quality Supervisor/Manager with developing the company’s quality assurance procedures and writing SOPs

**Environmental Monitoring**
- Microbiological testing
- Walk through inspections

**What You Need to Get the Job Done**:

- University Degree in Science (Food Science Preferred) or Diploma, Food and Pharmaceutical Technology or related discipline
- A minimum of 2 years lab experience in the food and beverage industry and with GMP and HACCP Programs
- Knowledge of quality assurance audits
- Knowledge of qu