Overview
Mountain Top Foods OSI is currently looking for a full-time Quality Assurance Technician based out of our North East Edmonton operations.
The Quality Assurance Technician is responsible for close monitoring of the manufacturing process, document control, and release activities associated with incoming raw materials, intermediate components and finished goods. The Quality Assurance Technician ensures compliance to current GMPs, and the Quality Program.
Responsibilities
- Prepare all daily monitoring records and monitors activities at the specified frequency.
- Perform pre-operational inspection on equipment’s.
- Perform and assist in preparation and conducting environmental swabbing program.
- Assist in weekly and monthly sampling programs.
- Ensure all employees are adhering to the written procedures and GMP.
- Adhere to the identified CCPs for safe product and ensure quality inspections are done consistently.
- Inspect equipment and all lines for daily pre-operational start up.
- Perform hourly food safety and quality assurance inspections as necessary.
- Assist and ensure changeovers are completed as required.
- Monitoring and assisting in batching process controls by collecting lot code information.
- Ensure completion of daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, and yearly monitoring tasks and records.
- Perform all monitoring verifications as per schedule.
- Aid in Recall and traceability system.
- Calibrate equipment as per schedule.
- Sample finished product for sample retention daily.
- Conduct quality control tests (during production).
- Provide support and advice to production in quality issues (during production).
- Ensure assigned personnel are following cleaning and sanitation procedures by filling out sanitation forms
- Perform swabs collection as regulatory and company and customer requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
The applicant will ideally have a minimum 2 years of proven experience working in quality assurance. Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology or related science field would be considered an asset and is preferred. Candidates must be flexible with early morning shift starting at 4:30 am. Candidates must have excellent communication skills both verbally and written. Mountain Top Foods OSI offers a competitive salary based on education and experience as well as a benefits package.
Pay: From $20.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Disability insurance
- Extended health care
- Life insurance
Work Location: In person
