FSQ Specialist
About this role
Position Title: FSQ Specialist
Position Type: Regular - Full-Time
Requisition ID: 44194
- Manage finished product hold and release activities, including review and disposition of held products and rework documentation.
- Track and report non-conforming inventory and key departmental quality performance metrics.
- Support traceability, withdrawal, and recall processes, including participation in traceability exercises.
- Serve as the SAP QM Super User, supporting quality data management, inspection plans, release coordination, and master data maintenance.
- Act as the Intelex Quality Super User, providing system expertise, training, and audit support.
- Own document control processes, ensuring plant procedures and records meet corporate and audit requirements.
- Support net contents compliance by maintaining systems, analyzing lot summary reports, and reporting results.
- Oversee batch status activities and hold/release processes within warehouse management systems.
- Conduct GMP, HACCP, procedural, and documentation audits on the production floor.
- Provide coaching and training to team members while identifying opportunities for process improvements and supporting quality-related projects.
- Maintain consumer complaint awareness and assist with sample shipments and special projects.
- Support flexible operational requirements, including occasional coverage of off-shift activities when needed.
- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Microbiology, Chemistry, or a related scientific discipline.
- 1 to 3 years of manufacturing and/or laboratory experience within the food industry preferred (internship experience will be considered).
- Strong understanding of food safety systems, HACCP principles, and food regulatory requirements.
- Knowledge of statistical analysis and interpretation of experimental data.
- Sound mathematical aptitude and foundational food science knowledge.
- Working knowledge of manufacturing operations and food production environments.
- Experience with SAP, particularly SAP QM, preferred.
- Strong attention to detail, organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Proven ability to work with urgency in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Excellent communication, training, and collaboration skills.
Compensation Package: - Starting at 26.17 CAD hourly + Bonus eligibility + Hourly Pay Differential for applicable shifts
The above reflects the target compensation range for the position at the time of posting. Hiring compensation will be determined based on experience, skill set, education and training, and other organizational needs. This posting is for an existing vacancy.
Benefits: At McCain, we’re on a mission to create a winning culture that puts employee safety and well-being at the heart of what we do, every day. We understand and appreciate that each person’s needs are unique and ensure our benefits & well-being programs reflect that. Employees are eligible for the following benefits: health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescription drug), retirement savings benefits, and leave support including medical, family and bereavement. Well-being programs include vacation and holidays, company-supported volunteering time, and mental health resources. Coverages are aligned with applicable law and can vary by work level, location, and nature of the role. Additional benefit details are available during the application process.
Your well-being matters to us, and we’re here to provide you with the necessary resources to support you in being your best self at work — and at home.
McCain Foods is an equal opportunity employer. As a global family-owned company, we strive to be the employer of choice in the diverse communities around the world in which we live and work. We recognize that inclusion drives our creativity, resilience, and success and makes our business stronger. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, veteran status, disability, or any other protected characteristic under applicable law.
McCain is an accessible employer. If you require an accommodation throughout the recruitment process (including alternate formats of materials or accessible meeting rooms), please let us know, and we will work with you to find appropriate solutions.
Your privacy is important to us. By submitting personal data or information to us, you agree this will be handled in accordance with McCain’s Global Privacy Policy and Global Employee Privacy Policy, as applicable. McCain leverages AI in the hiring process, though all final decisions are made by humans. You can understand our approach to AI and how your personal information is being handled here.
Job Family: Manufacturing
Location(s): CA - Canada : New Brunswick : Florenceville-Bristol
Company: McCain Foods (Canada)
Company at a glance
At McCain, we believe food plays an important role in people’s lives, with the power to bring individuals, families, and communities together.
As a privately owned family company with over 67 years of experience, a presence in over 160 countries, and a global team of 23,000+ people, our values and culture are at the heart of everything we do. Our product quality, people and customer dedication help us achieve global sales in excess of CDN $14 billion. Through our investment and innovation agenda, we continue to be a global leader in prepared potato products, including our famous French Fries and appetizers.
Guided by our purpose—celebrating real connections through delicious, planet-friendly food—we believe that working together with our teams, business and community partners will bring sustainable growth and positive change. At McCain, sustainability goes to the heart of our purpose as a business. That purpose means putting agronomy at the forefront of all we do to ensure healthier soils which lead to more sustainably sourced food. It means reducing our climate impact and supporting the communities where we operate—today, tomorrow and for generations to come. 🌱🥔🍟
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Top Benefits
- Health coverage
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Prescription drug coverage
- Retirement savings benefits
- Leave support
- Vacation
- Holidays
- Company-supported volunteering time
- Mental health resources
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