Sr. Quality Assurance Technician

Sr. Quality Assurance Technician (Contract) - Day

Etobicoke, ON, Canada

Give & Go Prepared Foods Corp.
is a proud member of the Mondeléz family. We are a leading, and growing, North American manufacturer of baked goods for over 30 years. If you're looking for a company that will provide you with opportunities for career growth and development, while working with an energetic and team with deeply ingrained values of respect, direct and open communication, quality, and accountability, we’d love to have you join our team.

Our Consumer Brands: two-bite® brand, including two bite-brownies®, Kimberley's Bakeshoppe™, Mason St. Bakehouse™, and The Worthy Crumb Pastry Co™
It’s an exciting time to part of the Give & Go team as we are growing rapidly and want you to become a part of our growth and extraordinarily bright future!

Job Overview:

Responsible for the quality of the product and packaging that is sold to consumers, while also providing direction to hourly and salaried non-exempt lab technicians and sanitation workers. The main areas of focus include quality of the production process, maintenance of standard processes to prevent adulteration or contamination of product, testing of product attributes and packaging integrity, regulatory compliance, and facility sanitation.

Location: Etobicoke, ON
Shift: Day Shift - (7AM - 3PM)

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Health and Safety committee activities including monthly meeting attendance and regular participation in site Health and Safety committee inspections
• Responsible for identifying health hazards and other hazards i.e. Biological, Chemical and Physical hazard in the process controls with the assistance of Health and Safety Committee
• Conducts regular site walks (planned and unplanned) to identify unsafe, hazardous practices and conditions and ensure prompt correction and implement corrective and preventive action based on the identified root cause of the issue
• Monitor site Health and Safety Metrics and data and participates in implementation of continuous improvement
• Responsible for the implementation and adherence to the Health and Safety policy / program and provide an example for others by always directing and performing work in a safe manner by following Health and Safety policy / program
• Train employees to report all incidents, injuries and near misses and in conducting thorough investigation to identify root cause of the issue
• Provides on-going Health and Safety training to all full-time employees, temporary employees, agency employees and contractors
• Responsible for establishing and implementing training related to Food Safety and Quality .
• Ensures that temporary employees, agency employees and contractors are trained on Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Plant rules prior to start of work
• Assigned / designated Preventive Control Qualified Individual (PCQI) and responsible to make decisions about hazards and verification procedures such as environmental monitoring specific to facility and to review the food safety records (HACCP records).
• Provide technical leadership in the areas of food safety and quality systems
• Ability to provide leadership to the Food Safety Committee and to the plant on all product safety programs and issues
• Responsible to update annual matrices to the QA programs
• Responsible for establishing and implementing training related to Food Safety and Quality
• Responsible for verifying, achieving and enforcement of Food Safety, Food Quality, GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices), Allergen Program and Health and Safety requirements
• Performs audits to assure compliance to GMP and company standards, while also recommending changes in manufacturing practices and or production flow to ensure product safety
• Analyze and maintain the quality of all products, as per set procedures
• Accountable for product quality by conducting regular checks as per procedure and educating production personnel on product quality standards (if needed)
• Responsible for verifying required processing parameters and statistical processing methods (SPC) to improve process efficiency, product quality and reduced waste.
• Ensure Control charts are within upper and lower…