QA Technician- Food Manufacturing

**About The Opportunity**

**Golden Boy Foods Ltd is a division of 8th Avenue Food & Provisions. We have a job opportunity for a Quality Technician with 1 years hands on experience within the food manufacturing industry. We are a small plant with a big heart with a warm, friendly and positive work environment. We make the best peanut butter by roasting and grinding peanuts combined with other raw ingredients that flow to a 1 fully automated line consisting of a filler, capper, labeler and pallet wrapper, and then shipped out all over the world**

**Come and join our Team**

**Location: 70 West Drive Brampton, ON**

**Work Hours**:Night Shift 10pm to 6am during the week and weekends**

**Position Summary**:
Position Summary: Reporting to the Quality Manager, the Quality Assurance Technician’s main function is to ensure the fast & accurate handling of documents, finished good decision making, and raw material tests to support the quality team in food safety and quality verification and compliance. This person will have a working knowledge of current North American food safety regulations and GFSI requirements. The position may require work with cross-functional teams to ensure that raw material or finished products are inspected and released in a timely manner and that non-conforming product disposition is handled in an efficient manner. Ideally, this individual will have 1 years previous experience as a QA Technician in a food-processing environment and food testing lab. Must be able to work up to six (6) days a week, weekends, and/or overtime.

Duties and Responsibilities:

- Must have knowledge of HAACP & SQF
- Assist with the development of food safety and quality systems through technical leadership.
- Ensure product quality & safety and GMP through regular inspections as per procedure and by educating production personnel about food safety and quality procedures and requirements.
- Decisive decision maker
- Ensure that packaging and ingredients meet specifications prior to production
- Conduct swabbing and other sampling (_water, air, etc_.) following environmental monitoring program and perform trend analysis.
- Report any GMP violation or non-conformity, conduct investigation and follow up on the CAPA.
- Assists in the investigation of customer complaints and dispositions of out-of-date materials.
- Maintain the electronic records system and portals up-to-date, participate in equipment calibration and lab supply orders, and in the safety program.
- Assisting with the recommendation of changes to manufacturing practices and/or production flow to ensure the safety of products.
- Maintain QA records in safe, secure and orderly manner.
- Participate in internal and external quality audits.
- Maintain a clean & tidy work area.
- Overtime is required as scheduled

**Education And Experience Required**:

- Associate’s or Bachelors degree or Diploma in food science, Microbiology or related discipline.
- 1 years' quality assurance experience in food manufacturing industry
- 1 years’ experience utilizing Microsoft office with intermediate proficiency
- 2+ years’ experience with HACCP, SQF and GMP

**Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills**:

- Experience with GFSI considered an asset
- Good oral & written communication skills
- Ability to work in a high paced and stressful environment
- Schedule flexibility including working early mornings, late evenings, night, weekends, holidays and overtime.
- Frequent walking
- Frequent standing
- Frequent bending
- Occasional lifting up to 20 lbs

**Important**

Our Company promotes a diverse, inclusive workplace. By embracing diversity, we build a more effective organization.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA) and Ontario Human Rights Code, the Company will provide accommodation throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities. If selected to participate in the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please inform Human Resources of any accommodation(s) that you may require to any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.

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

**Salary**: $18.50-$19.50 per hour

Expected hours: 44 - 56 per week

**Benefits**:

- Company events
- Company pension
- Dental care
- Discounted or free food
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Vision care

Schedule:

- 12 hour shift
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
- Night shift
- Weekends as needed

Supplemental pay types:

- Overtime pay

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

**Experience**:

- HACCP: 1 year (required)
- SQF: 1 year (required)
- Auditing: 1 year (preferred)
- Food Safety Inspection in a manufacturing environment: 1 year (preferred)
- Food Manufacturing environment: 1 year (preferred)
- QA Technician: 1 year (required)

Ability to Commute: