Quality Assurance Technician

at  Freshstone Brands Inc

SUMMARY

Responsible to monitor, verify and enforce Freshstone Brands food safety and quality standards on a daily basics as required on HACC plan / pre-requisite program/ SQF , FDA as well as customers standards. QA technician is responsible to perform the following duties in order to provide a safe quality food for our customers.

REQUIREMENTS

• Legal entitlement to work in Canada
• Proficient in spoken and written English
• Bachelor of Science with Food Safety experience
• Minimum 6 months experience in Food Industry
• Flexibility required
  Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Dental care
• Extended health care
• On-site parking

Flexible language requirement:

• French not required

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Day shift
• Evening shift
• Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Kitchener, ON N2B 3E2: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Education:

• Secondary School (preferred)

Experience:

• QA/QC: 1 year (required)

Language:

• English (required)

Work Location: In perso

Food safety

• Performs pre-operational inspection at start up before production start
• Verifying compliance with Sanitation and hygiene policy requirements as well as effectiveness through swabbing (ATP environment)
• Perform a micro testing in house as scheduled
• Performs a daily monitoring on following requirement
• GMP’s / allergen/ temperature / in process sanitation / Brittle glass and plastic audit.
• Performs on site observation for all CCP’s as well as other requirements which are been monitored from production employees
• Verifies all the monitoring records such as CCP’s / labeling records/ other HACCP requirements which are monitored from production/ receiver/ shipper/ maintenance employees ensuring that comply with requirement daily.
• Conducts a GMP / CCP’s/ prerequisite program / HACCP /SQF training as required on daily basics
• Issues a worker order for all food safety non-conformances observed in house which affect the food safety or the program
• Issues a corrective actions required for any food safety deviation and follow up to close a loop ensuring that the deviation has been corrected
• Communicates and inform QA manager any time you are not able to make a call or decision on food safety deviation observed or something is important to share with QA manager
• Collects scheduled micro food samples and prepare as required to the outside laboratory for testing
• Collects a listeria samples as scheduled for product and production areas
• Inform the QA manager weekly for the micro result
• Communicates with production management/ receiving / shipping for any deviation observed and follow up with them to correct it
• Fills out properly as required all the documentations such as deviation forms/ reports / daily observations on different issues
• Proposes a disciplinary action for employees who continuously do not comply with food safety requirements .
• Ensures that suspected unsafe product/ equipment/ production areas/ storage / trailer has been placed on hold and QA manager has been notify immediately
• Monitors proper disposition of held products according to QA manager direction
• Follows up on issues which are been observed from CFIA inspector any time taking all required corrective action.
• Collects any information if required for any food safety customer complaints and follow up on corrective action proposed from QA manager
• Releases the product on hold for micro when the result has been received
• Verifies the traceability coding and product identification has been properly implemented as required in all areas such as receiving/ production /shipping
• Conducts a PCO audit as required
• Verifies shipping requirements ensuring that all of them comply with regulation such as labeling trailer condition/ temperature/
• Responsible for filing all the food safety documentations as required
• Participate actively as required in recall situation following the direction given from recall coordinator.