POSITION: Quality Assurance Coordinator

REPORTS TO: Quality Manager

SALARY: Compensation commensurate with education and experience, range 40 - 50K

TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Temporary 12 months, Full Time

LOCATION: Charlottetown, PEI

About Us

We provide full-service contract manufacturing, bottling, and packaging solutions for gummy natural health products, supporting clients from concept through launch. Operating within a regulated manufacturing environment, we are committed to quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

The Opportunity

The Quality Assurance Coordinator assures consistent quality of production by developing and enforcing good quality systems, validating processes, providing documentation, and control procedures to build quality parameters to mitigate quality risks.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Perform QA review of production documentation associated with quality issues, including deviations, change controls, discrepancies, and reworks

Initiate OOS investigations as required by internal procedures and reporting out of specifications results and investigations to the Quality manager immediately as they occur.

Assist with root cause investigation and risk analysis

Handle vendor and customer complaint investigations, resolution, and tracking, and act as support for the vendor complaint management.

Perform QA review of Batch Production Records (BPRs) to support finished goods release.

Coordinate with 3rd party lab for managing raw and finished product, and environmental monitoring activities.

Assist in reviewing and executing the QA release of incoming materials, in-process goods and materials, and final products.

Conduct the QA review of equipment documentation, including but not limited to qualification, maintenance, and calibration records.

Collaborate with other departments to ensure that quality control and sanitation standards are established and maintained throughout all manufacturing operations.

Deliver training and orientation materials about GMP, HACCP and related topics.

Assist the logistics team in providing all required documentation for export of finished goods.

Act to support in maintaining the supplier approval program.

Assist and perform internal audits

Assist in inspections and audits by regulatory agencies, customers, and third-party agencies.

Ensure compliance with product specifications, labeling, and regulatory standards.

Performs other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS

Related degree or diploma and experience working in Quality Assurance in a GMP manufacturing environment

Knowledge and experience working with GFSI standards (SQF, BRC, FSSC), HACCP, SOP’s, GMP’s would be considered an asset

Knowledge of electronic Quality Management Systems (eQMS) would be considered as an asset

Microbiology knowledge and sampling will be an asset.

Excellent communication skills written as well as spoken.

Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office products- excel and power point

Must be well organized and demonstrate effective time management skills

High attention to detail.

OTHER

Must have proof of eligibility to work in Canada

PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF POSITION (INCLUDES BUT IS NOT LIMITED TO)

This position requires the ability to

Stand, or walk for an extended period on a hard surface

Life up to 25 lbs

Work in a variety of temperatures

Working with personal protective equipment

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