QA-QC Technician

Position: QA-QC Technician-ON
Business Unit Overview
8th Avenue Food & Provisions is a growing organization made up of businesses that produce and sell quality products including peanut butter, granola, and fruit and nut trail mixes to retail, food service and ingredient customers. The company was formed in October 2018 through a combination of Post Holdings’ private brands businesses and is owned by Post Holdings and funds affiliated with Thomas H.

Lee Partners, L.P. (“THL”), a private equity firm.

Location Description
The Markham, Ontario plant produces both organic and non‑organic peanut butter, with annual production of approximately 35 million pounds. The site supports a team of about 60 manufacturing and support employees and plays an important role in supplying products across the region.

Markham is located just north of Toronto and is widely known as Canada’s High‑Tech Capital, home to more than 1,000 high‑tech and life sciences companies. The city offers convenient access to the Greater Toronto Area through major highways and public transit, along with a strong quality of life supported by parks, trails, cultural venues, and year‑round community events.

Responsibilities

Position Summary:

The Quality Assurance Technician’s main function is to ensure the fast & accurate handling of documents, finished good 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 should have previous experience within a food-processing environment and food testing lab.

Location:

30 Citizen Court, Markham - Unionized Environment

Shift:  This position is reguarly on day shift (6:00 AM - 2:00 PM) however is responsible for covering other shifts when other technicians are on vacation or sick leave. There will be occasional overtime work on Saturday/Sunday

Pay Rate : $21.50/hr

Duties and Responsibilities:

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.

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.

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 station.

All positions within Golden Boy Foods Ltd are mandated to adhere to Good Manufacturing (GMP) and uphold food safety standards.

Other duties as required.

Qualifications
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

2+ years’ experience utilizing Microsoft office with intermediate proficiency

1+ years’ experience with HACCP and GMP

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