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Lab Quality Lead


Job Location:

Toronto - Canada

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 7 June 2026 (30+ days ago)
Application Deadline: 4 September 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy
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Job Summary

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You provide hands-on assistance to support the operation and goals of the laboratory by planning and conducting experiments and applying your understanding to analyze results. With guidance you plan and implement assigned projects.

How you will contribute

You will perform a range of analyses prepare and maintain standard equipment and chemicals required for running of an analytical laboratory support laboratory activities while ensuring compliance to the appropriate internal and external standards and capture and report data with technical rigor and accuracy. To succeed in this role you will maintain a clean tidy and safe working environment and be proficient in generic and specific software packages.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

  • Working on teams and independently with the guidance of more senior team members
  • Proactively identifying problems and assisting in creating and implementing solutions
  • Maintaining equipment to ensure they are always operable
  • Applying your technical understanding of equipment to support laboratory operations
  • Recording and reporting data and activity outcome accurately
  • Working in laboratories
  • Relevant industry and/or academic experience

More about this role

The primary responsibilities of this position will be toassistin themaintenance of all Compliance Sanitation and Process QualityPrograms andSchedulesfor theGladstone facilityand support the daily operations to conform to corporate and local Quality Policies and SOPs.

What you need to know about this position:

What extra ingredients you will bring:

  • Highly skilled at planning and prioritizing tasks

  • Strong communicationand interpersonal skills

  • Good analytical andproblem-solvingskills

  • Coaching mindset and ability to function in a servant-leadership model

  • Ability to successfully collaborate across different teams and stakeholders.

  • Flexibility to adapt to a dynamic and fast paced high performance work system

  • Exhibit learning agility and display potential to grow in the organization by taking up diverse and challenging assignments

Education / Experience:

  • Bachelors degree in food science Regulatory Affairs or Science.
  • 2-years experience in a related field

Job specific requirements:

  • TheLabQuality Leadis responsibleforthe foodsafety and quality programs that ensure quality complianceofraw and packaging materialsWIPas well as the environmental and production related monitoring programs such as CTQs and CTPs.

  • Accountable for the compliance of the following Quality Policies:

  • Pathogen environmental monitoring (PEM and Non-PEM)

  • Water programs

  • Testing controls & Calibration

  • CoA verification

  • Finished product pathogen testing

  • Hold and release (ingredients)

  • Incoming Receiving of Materials

  • TheLab QualityLead manages1Quality Specialist- Lab thatsupportthe different programs enlisted above.

  • Request local spec exceptions to fulfill the Quality Policy forOOSraw materials trials and FPAs.

  • The position also supports the change management process for formulation recipes and the traceability program sensory program Kosher management RainforestAllianceamong others.

  • This position owns the Standard Work Process of Supplier Quality that is part of the QM pillar.

  • Owns the relationship withSuppliers Lab and other externalstakeholderwho support Gladstone plant.

  • Flexibility in scheduling. May beto support sporadically on weekends and off-hours to connect with the core team and the Quality Specialists.

  • Support competencytrainingforquality and food safety requirementsaccording to schedulewhile working with the E&T lead.

  • Assistin the Change Control program leading the cross functional team approvalcreatingand revising SOPs/WI/ QPs and updating applicable programs.

  • Support in the management of non-conforming materials ensuring that they are properly controlledidentifiedand dispositioned appropriately.

  • Work safely and diligently to avoid hazardsin the workplace and department.

  • Must be able to prioritize work to be most efficient and effective.

  • Be able to work independently and proactively to perform duties.

  • Other tasks may be assigned by theQuality Manager.

Work schedule:

Monday to Friday at the plant .

Salary and Benefits:
The expected base salary range for this position is 84500 to $105650 CAD depending on several factors such as experience skills education and addition to base salary this position is eligible to participate in a highly competitive bonus program with a target of 8% with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results.

Mondelez also offers several generous employee benefits (some subsidized or fully paid for by the company) including health insurance wellness and family support programs life and disability insurance retirement savings plans paid leave programs education related programs and enhanced vacation and holiday entitlements.
AI may be used as part of the recruitment process and in accordance with local laws. This posting is for a current vacancy.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites including Cadbury OREO Christie and Maynards we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first second or third in their categories and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate cookies crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of addition we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term accommodation in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

Regular

Supply Chain Quality Assurance

Product Quality Safety and Compliance

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Mondelēz International, Inc. empowers people to snack right in over 150 countries around the world. We're leading the future of snacking with iconic brands such as Oreo, belVita and LU biscuits; Cadbury Dairy Milk, Milka and Toblerone chocolate; Sour Patch Kids candy and Trident gum. ... View more

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