Processing Technologist

Role Responsibilities

Are you committed to excellence, driven by precision, and motivated by maintaining the highest standards of cleanliness and safety? Join us as a Processing Technologist, where you’ll play a vital role in ensuring our production environment operates at peak performance. In this key position, you’ll support our sanitation processes, uphold rigorous quality standards, and help create a safe, efficient workspace the entire team depends on.

We are looking for a detail-oriented and hands-on Processing Technologist to support the daily functioning of our pilot plant facility. This role plays a key part in maintaining sanitation standards, preparing equipment for operational use, assisting with client processing projects, and helping ensure smooth day-to-day operations. If you enjoy working with a wide range of food processing equipment and value a clean, organized, and safe workspace, this position offers an engaging and varied environment.

Reporting to the Facilities Manager, this newly created position will be critical in providing support to the operations team. The Facility Processing Technologist supports operational activities within a facility that operates between 06:00 and 17:00 daily.

Key Responsibilities

1. Sanitation Program Support
   • Carry out daily sanitation-related tasks including chemical monitoring, inventory tracking, and communication with chemical suppliers.
   • Generate and review sanitation documents, identify and resolve challenges from previous shifts, and confirm accurate activity records.
   • Prepare equipment for sanitation by performing disassembly and pre-wash steps.
   • Maintain sanitation-related documentation, update SSOPs as needed, and communicate changes to contract cleaning personnel.
   • Monitor sanitation equipment and perform basic troubleshooting, function checks, and minor repairs.
   • Organize daily, weekly, monthly and annual sanitation schedules to meet food safety program requirements and CFIA regulatory expectations.
   • Coordinate with maintenance when operational issues arise.
     
     
2. Pilot Plant Project Assistance
   • Assist with planning and setting up pilot plant projects based on client needs and booking schedules.
   • Set up and operate a variety of food processing lines, which may include: 
     
     • Baking systems: mixing, proofing, baking, packaging.
     • Fruit & vegetable processing: cooking, cooling, homogenizing, bottling, packaging.
     • Continuous cooking systems: forming, coating, frying, freezing, packaging.
     • Ingredient separation: decanting, centrifuging, spray drying.
     • Meat processing: grinding, mixing, emulsifying, stuffing, smoking, slicing, packaging.
   • Organize equipment, materials, and supplies required to efficiently run client projects.
   • Support record keeping for processing conditions and ensure food safety, CFIA, HACCP, and CCP requirements are followed.
   • Communicate updates to SOPs and SSOPs to staff.

Role Responsibilities (Continued)

3. Facility and Equipment Support

• • Assist in organizing storage areas and equipment placement within the pilot plant.
  • Identify equipment issues and report them to maintenance and facility management.
  • Contribute to safe operating procedures related to facility health and safety.
  • Assist with project scheduling and operational planning as needed.

4. Daily Operations Support

• • Provide afternoon coverage on production lines and support during staff breaks or appointments.
  • Assist with line setup, equipment transport, and general facility preparation.
  • Support other facility areas as needed to ensure smooth overall operations.
     

Apply today and help us keep our facility running safely, smoothly, and ready for innovation.

Please click on this link to view the job description for this position.

APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Systems Thinking: Considers inter-relationships and emerging trends to attain goals:

• Seeks insight on implications of different options.
• Analyzes long-term outcomes, focus on goals and values.
• Identifies unintended consequences.

Creative Problem Solving: Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues:

• Engages perspective to seek root causes.
• Finds ways to improve complex systems.
• Employs resources from other areas to solve problems.
• Engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.

Agility: Works in a changing environment and takes initiative to change:

• Takes opportunities to improve work processes.
• Anticipates and adjusts behavior to change.
• Remains optimistic, calm and composed in stressful situations.
• Seeks advice and support to change appropriately.

Build Collaborative Environments: Facilitates open communication and leverages team skill:

• Genuinely values and learns from others.
• Facilitates open and respectful conflict resolution.
• Recognizes and appreciates others.

Drive for Results: Works to exceed goals and partner with others to achieve objectives:

• Holds self and others responsible for results.
• Partners with groups to achieve outcomes.
• Aims to exceed expectations.

Qualifications

Minimum Recruitment Standard: Two-year technical diploma in a related field plus six years of direct food processing experience in an industrial setting or related; or equivalent as described below.

Equivalency: Directly related education or experience considered on the basis of:

• 1 year of education for 1 year of experience; or 
• 1 year of experience for 1 year of education.

Additional Must Have Requirements:

• Food processing facility experience.
• Working in a CFIA environment - Solid knowledge of sanitation practices, chemicals, and food safety regulations in federally inspected food processing environments.
• Strong understanding of industry standards and food processing practice. 
• Excellent technical comprehension and operation of food processing equipment.

Assets:

• Hands on experience with equipment operations and sanitation.
• Proficient in Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams) and capable of completing administrative tasks such as purchase orders, email communication, and file management.
• Skilled in creative problem-solving within food processing operations.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

Position Information:

• Office located in Leduc at the Food Processing Development Centre (6309 - 45 Street, Leduc, AB T9E 7C5).
• Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week (permanent full time).
• Monday to Friday (08:15 am-16:30 pm). 

Other Application Information:

• A cover letter is required with your application, outlining how your education and experience aligns with the role.
• Final candidates may be required to undergo a written test demonstrating writing skills and abilities pre or post interviews.
• Please indicate employment duration for all roles listed on your resume and whether you worked part-time or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).
• This position may require final candidates to undergo a security clearance.
• Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.
  
  

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees.

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - https://www.pspp.ca.
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information - https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits.
• Professional learning and development - https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive.
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca.
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.
• Leadership and mentorship programs.