About Blendtek
Blendtek is a privately held company on a mission to challenge expectations in the food industry. We partner with innovators in food, bakery, beverage, prepared foods, and sports nutrition—supporting everything from concept development to manufacturing and packaging. Our ingredient solutions range from essentials to inspired options like alternative proteins, natural extracts, sweeteners, gluten-free products, functional systems, and proprietary blends. At Blendtek, we do things differently—driving innovation and delivering unique solutions for our customers. Learn more at www.blendtek.com.
Position Summary
Blendtek is hiring for an FSQA Coordinator who ensures compliance with food safety and quality programs, including HACCP, SQF, and regulatory requirements. This role manages audits, non-conformance investigations, documentation, and liaises with regulatory bodies, while driving continuous improvement and supporting QA functions.
FSQA Coordinator Responsibilities
- Primary responsibility for maintaining, monitoring and verifying all aspects of the Company’s Safe Foods for Canadians Preventative Control Plan, HACCP and SQF systems.
- Responsible for Conducting annual HACCP review and reassessment and updating the program accordingly.
- Participate and/or lead in external third-party audits, internal, SQF and regulatory audits.
- Oversees the Non-Conformance program, ensuring root cause analysis, corrective action.
- Maintain Documents, SOPs, and records associated with food safety and compliance with regulatory requirements and guidelines.
- Initiate necessary processes, investigations, assessments, dispositions and courses of actions in respect of returned products
- Investigate complaints received with respect to the quality of product and, if necessary, take corrective and preventative measures.
- Monitor compliance for training, calibration, sanitation and pest control programs, and other activities which are critical to the operation and the GMP activities, as appropriate.
- Report on a Monthly basis the status of our Food Safety, HACCP and regulatory compliance to Senior Management.
- Liaison with CFIA; manage and keep up to date Blendtek’s myCFIA online account
- Provide backup for the QA technician when required
Ideal Candidate Profile:
- Ideal candidate has minimum 5 years experience in Food Quality Assurance with in depth knowledge of HACCP, GFSI (SQF) and FSMA (PCQI).
- B.SC in Food Science or equivalent combination of academic and professional experience.
- Must be team oriented and have strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to coach and develop direct reports and skills to train and motivate associates on the manufacturing floor level as well.
- Must have a moderate to high level of computer skills, including data analysis and report writing of recommendations for corrective actions.
Working Conditions
- Climate controlled office environment (desk/computer work 75%, production/ warehouse environment 25%).
- Ergonomic workstations – height adjustable desk and monitors
Benefits
- Dental care
- Extended health care
- Vision care
- Monthly company events
- On-site parking
- Employee recognition program
- State of the art on-site gym
- Employee training programs
Ability to Commute/Relocate
- Reliable transportation to commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Schedule
- 8-hour day shift; 40 hours per week
Work Location
- One location – Cambridge, Ontario
Please Note
- In compliance with Ontario’s Bill 190, we confirm that this posting represents a current, existing vacancy within our organization.
- No use of AI is done in the hiring process
Accessibility Statement
We are committed to employment equity and encourage all people, including women, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and persons of aboriginal descent to apply. Upon your request, we provide accommodation for disabilities during the recruitment and selection process. If you request accommodation, HR will reach out to consult with you so that we can tailor our arrangements to suit your needs. In addition, all new employees are advised of our policies for accommodating employees with disabilities.
If you have a track record of success, are a self-starter, and love working in a dynamic environment, then Blendtek is the place for you! Please contact [email protected]
Note: Only qualified candidates will be contacted directly.
Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 12 months
Pay: $65,000.00-$75,000.00 per year
Work Location: In person
