Quality Assurance Technician - Temporary
- Delta, BC, Canada
Full-time
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- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- Preferable 1 year experience in Quality Assurance/ Food Industry
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Quality Assurance Technician - Temporary endingDec 2027
Opportunity Overview
Are you ready to elevate your career and be a part of creating the world's best desserts? Dessert Holdings partners with some of North America's most iconic chains to bring people together to celebrate life's sweetest moments!
Dessert Holdings is North America's fastest growing premium dessert company, recognized for providing retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovative desserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain, and best in class service. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, The Original Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Dianne's Fine Desserts and most recently, Kenny's Great Pies. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.
Responsibilities & Duties
Dessert Holdings and its related entities provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.
Opportunity Overview
Are you ready to elevate your career and be a part of creating the world's best desserts? Dessert Holdings partners with some of North America's most iconic chains to bring people together to celebrate life's sweetest moments!
Dessert Holdings is North America's fastest growing premium dessert company, recognized for providing retail and foodservice customers with chef-inspired innovative desserts made with real ingredients, a flexible and low-cost supply chain, and best in class service. Based in St. Paul, Minnesota, it is a collection of premium dessert companies and brands: Steven Charles, The Original Cakerie, Lawler's Desserts, Atlanta Cheesecake Company, Dianne's Fine Desserts and most recently, Kenny's Great Pies. Dessert Holdings is owned by Bain Capital and is continuing its journey of rapid growth.
Responsibilities & Duties
- Monitor and audit production floor adherence to GMP, BRC and all food safety policies
- Data entry and analysis
- Support customer/consumer complaint investigation and evaluation
- Assess supplier/raw material issues
- Review and verify daily production records
- Raw material evaluation and assessment
- Participate in new product implementation and support in product trials
- Conduct various audits to monitor conformance to regulatory and corporate requirements
- Perform laboratory testing of environmental samples as well as finished product testing
- Collect, prepare and plate finished product samples, read the results and update micro files
- Inform the group on the results of test and put product on hold if any results are out of range also re-wrap and organize retention samples in the retention room and lab freezer
- Conduct pre-op swabbing with Sanitation TL or Set-up supervisor daily and record the results, review the trend and communicate with operation / sanitation if any equipment has to be re-cleaned prior to start-up.
- Release product from HOLD when the results are confirmed acceptable
- Line-checks and process monitoring
- Daily review of production records
- Collect ingredient samples and conduct micro analyses, report results
- Help the team with records update and filing.
- The responsibilities will also include all other QA tasks when covering for QA technician shift so cross-training
- Food Science degree, Food Technology Diploma or related discipline
- HACCP/BRC/GFSI/CFIA and FDA knowledge is an asset
- Driven to grow and looking to pursue a professional career with TOC
- Experience in microbiological enumeration and evaluation preferred
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong team player
- BCIT diploma in Food Science or related discipline, BSc in Food Science (Microbiology) or currently involved in this program must be already trained on lab procedures as proficiency testing is required
- Preferable 1 year experience in Quality Assurance/ Food Industry
- We offer a competitive salary
- Retirement contributions
- Health care benefits
- A great future
- And we make Cake
Dessert Holdings and its related entities provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or any other characteristics protected by law.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Monitor production for compliance with food safety and quality requirements, review production records, conduct audits, and investigate complaints and supplier or raw-material issues. Perform microbiological and other laboratory testing, manage samples and product holds, communicate results, and support product trials and QA recordkeeping.
Requirements
A degree or diploma in Food Science, Food Technology, or a related discipline is required or preferred; the posting also welcomes candidates currently enrolled in a relevant program. Knowledge of HACCP, BRC/GFSI, CFIA, and FDA requirements is an asset, with microbiological testing experience and approximately one year of food-industry or quality-assurance experience preferred.
Skills
- Quality Assurance
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP)
- BRC Standards
- Food Safety
- Data Entry and Analysis
- Complaint Investigation
- Supplier and Raw Material Evaluation
- Production Record Review
- Auditing
- Microbiological Testing
- Environmental Sampling
- Finished Product Testing
- Pre-Operational Swabbing
- HACCP
- Communication
- Teamwork
Benefits
- Retirement Contributions
- Health Care Benefits
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Manufacturing
- Food & Beverage
- Science & Research
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Quality Assurance
- Food Science
- Food Technology
- GMP
- BRC
- GFSI
- HACCP
- CFIA
- FDA
- Food Safety
- Microbiological Enumeration
- Microbiological Testing
- Environmental Sampling
- Finished Product Testing
- Pre-Operational Swabbing
- Production Records
- Line Checks
- Process Monitoring
- Supplier Evaluation
- Raw Material Assessment
- Complaint Investigation
- Regulatory Compliance
- Product Trials
- Retention Samples
- Laboratory Procedures
- Proficiency Testing