Quality Assurance

A person who is responsible for maintaining and improving our quality and food safety system. This position requires training, testing, inspecting and enforcing the food safety system. On a daily basis, your co-workers will count on your food safety and quality knowledge to ensure we are getting high quality, safe products to the customer.

You will need to:

• Train existing and new staff on the processes and procedures established.
• Inspect the team’s ability to produce the highest quality products.
• Enforce standard procedures where they are not being followed and oversee that corrective actions are being followed.
• Complete your own quality measurements (Warner Bratzler Shear Force Testing, micro testing, leaker testing, shelf life testing, etc).
• Lead the traceability program and help it become more valuable to the consumer.
• Prepare for audits and inspection that are conducted by customers and government.
• Look at operations with a critical eye and identify activities that create risk.
• Conduct your work in a way that is consistent with lean manufacturing.
• Have excellent interpersonal skills and able to have difficult conversations.
• Possess great attention to detail and troubleshooting skills.
• Access risk regularly and consistently.

You should have:

• A degree in Food Science or a related discipline
• 5 years of experience in food-related quality assurance role
• Excellent organizational, project management, multi-tasking and prioritization skills
• Exceptional leadership and communication skills
• Strong experience in developing and maintaining Quality Assurance programs, HACCP systems and SOPs
• Proficiency in various software
• Innovative and creative problem-solving skills .
• Previous QA and R&D experience in the meat industry is an asset