Quality Lab Technician

• Locations 6405 E 45TH AVE, DENVER, CO, 80216, US
• Banner Albertsons Companies

About the company

Albertsons Companies is at the forefront of the revolution in retail. With a fixation on raising the bar with innovation and building belonging through our culture, our team is rallying our company around a unique purpose: to create joy around each table and inspire a healthier tomorrow for every community.

Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with over 2,200 stores in 34 states and the District of Columbia. Our well‑known banners include Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions , Star Market, Haggen, Carr’s, Kings Food Markets, and Balducci's Food Lovers Market. We support our stores with 22 distribution centers and 19 manufacturing plants.

Bring your flavor!

Building the future of food and well‑being starts with you. Join our team and bring your best self to the table. Join our team as a Quality Tech at our Beverage Plant!

What you will be doing:

Produce and maintain high quality syrup supply to can and bottle filling line through consistent and accurate batching procedures and support continuous improvement, and First Pass Quality Initiative.

The position will be based in Denver, CO.
This position requires the successful candidate to join the union.

Competitive Wages – The pay range is $24.80/hr to $31.00/hr

• Starting rates will vary based on things like location, experience, qualifications, and the terms of any applicable collective bargaining agreement. Additional premiums for swing and grave shifts are available. Dependent on length of service, hours worked, and any applicable collective bargaining agreement.
• Benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability insurance, optional life insurance, sick pay, vacation pay, paid holidays, bereavement pay and retirement benefits.

Shift
– is subjected to the collective bargaining agreement but is an evening (potentially 2:30pm to 11pm) to a night shift (3:30pm to 2am).

Main responsibilities

Control Drinks

• Prepare control drinks for each tank of syrup.
• Perform Testing as required, following Analytical Procedures

Laboratory Analysis and support

• Perform lab testing such as Brix, Titratable Acidity Carbonation pH Taste Odor Appearance Net Contents Sodium Content headspace dissolved oxygen HPCL chemicals.
• Perform on –going shelf‑life assessments for finished products as scheduled.
• Perform receiving procedures.
• Perform Seam Full and Abbreviated Seam inspections as scheduled.
• Perform Removal Torque testing for PET packaged products as scheduled.
• Participate in Lean and Five S laboratory practices.
• Gather, assemble, and ship out samples as required by outside customers.
• Gather, assemble, and store retention and ongoing shelf‑life samples as scheduled.
• Perform lab start up and shut down procedures.
• Report any compromised ingredients, significant spills, or out of standard conditions to

Microbiological Testing

• Gather, prepare, and plate raw materials, work in progress and finished product.
• Samples follow specific microbial testing SOP and document on appropriate process.
• Control forms.
• Swab process equipment and run ATP swabs as instructed on specific SOP’s and
• Document on appropriate process control forms.

Calibration

• Monitor and document equipment calibration and maintenance.

Water Treatment

• Run backwash of carbon filtration units.
• Run backwash of green sand filtration units.
• Perform Free Chlorine and Alkalinity testing where applicable.
• Perform Iron residual testing, where applicable.
• Perform RO pre‑treatment and sodium metabisulfite residual.
• Monitor and maintain water treatment chemicals.

Break Relief Duties

• While relieving Syrup Technician, make a tank(s) of syrup, scale up next batch and fill the ingredient bins/carts.
• While relieving fellow Can/Bottle Line Technicians perform routine line checks, prepare control drinks, and perform change overs as they are due.

Other Skills/Abilities

• Participate in continuous process improvement and RCA processes as directed.
• Rotate chilled and ambient concentrates and ingredients when new lots arrive, ensuring FIFO.
• Maintain proper…