Quality Assurance Technician
Current* Applies regulation, policies and standard operating procedures regarding food safety and quality programs relating to incoming raw material, packaging and labelling inspections* Profiles and evaluates raw materials, for defects and nonconformities, to ensure food safety, quality, and customer requirements are met* Responsible for developing daily incoming reports concerning raw material compliance and distributing to Senior Management and Production Personnel* Responsible for analyzing and trending raw material profile results, initiating supplier follow-up process and communicating results with Senior Management* Assisting with maintaining supplier scorecards and initiating supplier non-conformity responses for the QA Manager and/or QA Compliance Technician to issue* Ensures compliance with CFIA, SQF and Customer Specification requirements* Investigates HACCP, and SQF non-compliance and deviations originating from raw material, packaging and labelling suppliers through root cause analysis, and the application of corrective and preventative actions* Identifies trends related to incoming raw materials and supplier performance, and communicating trends to management* Ensures appropriate product holds and dispositions of incoming materials* Assists with the development, implementation and maintenance of raw material specifications* Responsible for ensuring mandatory requirements that appear on externally printed labels are accurate* Verifies all incoming ingredients to approved customer specifications* Monitoring of storage facilities to ensure First-in/First-out compliance* Daily inspection activities of coolers and dry storage* Performs other duties as assigned or required by the QA Manager.
