Quality Control Technician

Quality Control Technician

Hours - Fulltime (40 hours per week)

Location: Albany, PE (Onsite)

Pay: $19.32 - $20.91 per hour

Why work for us?

At Atlantic Beef Products Inc, we value our employees. We employ the best and talented professionals into our production, quality, maintenance, marketing, and management roles. We are a goal-driven company with a mission to provide our customers with high-quality Atlantic Canada produced beef products while building a sustainable business to support the regional beef industry.

We offer competitive pay, comprehensive benefits that are tailored to our employees' needs, excellent career growth and development opportunities, work-life balance, employee discounts, reimbursements, and more.

Job Description:

The Quality Control Technician ensures that products and their manufacturing processes meet food quality and safety standards. Responsibilities include confirming that process guidelines are followed effectively and safely, and ensuring that workers adhere to GMP and HACCP guidelines. The technician works closely with the Plant Production team and QC/HACCP team to provide quick responses to production requests relating to testing and inspection. Other QC duties may be assigned as required, including tasks at the request of the QC Manager.

Job Functions / Responsibilities

• Checks the incoming and outgoing product quality as per the standards. Operates and maintains laboratory equipment and apparatus and prepares solutions of liquids, reagents, and sample formulations.
• Communicates as per SOPs in case of any problems with incoming material.
• Ensures that the correct product name and expiry date are labeled on the finished product.
• Monitors TQC, GMP, and HACCP Programs and performs record keeping.
• Inspects packaging, storage, and shipping facilities for conformance to company sanitation and safety standards.
• May set up and perform sensory and bacteria tests at various stages of processing from raw materials to finished products, compiling and evaluating records to determine and maintain quality and reliability of products.
• Based on any discrepancies in the test results, applies quality control procedures like GMP or closely monitors the production process.
• Recommends modifications of existing quality or production standards to achieve optimum quality within production capacity limits.
• Ensures General Maintenance Practices by checking whether employees follow proper sanitation procedures, such as keeping work areas clean and using clean gloves, aprons, hard hats, hair nets, and steel-toe boots that can be cleaned and sanitized.
• Ensures that meat products are kept at proper temperatures during production and storage to preserve quality.
• Completes documentation provided by the HACCP Program on a daily basis.
• Follows laboratory safety policies, company policies, and procedures for safety (GMPs and HACCP).
• Carries out special projects as requested by the Supervisor.

Qualifications

• University degree or college diploma in Sciences, preferably chemistry, biology, or equivalent experience.
• Excellent knowledge of Microsoft Excel, Word, Teams, and Outlook.
• Ability to work effectively in an environment where priorities change constantly with minimal supervision.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Good GMP documentation skills.
• Good analytical and synthesis skills to participate in problem-solving and continuous improvement.

Work Conditions

• Overtime may be required. Willingness to take some weekend and holiday on-call shifts.
• Ability to sit, stand, crouch, bend, and reach for extended periods of time.
• Manual dexterity required.
• Lifting or moving up to 60 lbs required.
• Typical work hours are from 7:30 am to 4:10 pm, but the work hours may change as per the production schedule. Overtime may be required.
• May require working evenings and weekends.

Our workplace is a meat processing facility that has an environment of multi-temperatures and varying levels of humidity. We convert live cattle into Federally Inspected beef products. As per the conditions of employment, this position may be required to work in all areas of the plant, including the slaughter processing area.