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Hi, my name is Dawn and I’m a quality control technician for the Pepsi Bottling Group.
I chose this line of work because I graduated school from Red River College and it was a job co-op placement with school.
So I was placed here my first year and I loved my work so I went back.
The key tasks and responsibilities of my job are to ensure the quality of the product. It is my job to ensure that the product is safe and good for the customer and the market.
It’s my job to ensure that the product levels are up to standards according to our head office standards here at Pepsi Cola.
My work environment is fast paced.
If you’re running three lines by yourself, meaning bottle line, can line, bag in the shell and premix, you’re just running everywhere.
There’s so much to do, you rarely get bored. It’s challenging. It’s fast paced but it’s fun.
The initial process of what I do is we test the sugar for the sugar levels, the pHs levels, and the temperature
and that is the initial is when the sugar is coming in and that is the initial hub of the product.
As well, we test the water. We have to test the pure quality of the water for our water treatment centre. Another thing we do is to get the product we pull it off the line.
We do one series where we do a ‘removal’ it’s called.
What you must do is the bottle, say the 2 litres travel at about 250 per minute and you have to grab 12 consecutive bottles and it’s called a removal;
and what you do is a torque and the removal levels.
And the torque level is how much pressure the bottle can stand once it's stacked on each other.
And the removal level is how much pressure and how much strength it takes to remove the cap.
And obviously there has to be a minimum and a maximum because you want to be able to have as much bottles stacked on as you can
but you don’t want it so tight that someone can’t remove it because then they can’t get their pop.
A great day on the job is when everything goes good.
No fill operators have to dump their product because they’re out of spec.
The lines are running good, no one’s on down time. Everything’s just running smoothly and I’m not running behind and I feel like I can’t catch up.
That’s a great day but that never happens so.
A bad day is when the lines are broken. Something’s happening and no one knows why. You can’t fix it.
Something’s wrong with the product. The fill operator is having a bad day. And when the filler operator’s having a bad day, you’re having a bad day.
If it’s not ready then you have to wait and it always happens if they have to dump the sugar or the other lines stop and everything happens at once, you stress.
The level of education needed would definitely be in the area of science. I have diploma in chemical and bioscience from Red River College.
A girl I work with she got a Bachelor in food science.
The level income definitely under, in the beginning, when you start the job it’s under $30,000 very closely to the $30,000 mark.
And within a year you’re earning $30,000 to $60,000. It’s very good wages.
Definitely have to say you have to be interested in science. You have to be able to handle stress, fast paced environment,
not everyone can do it and I say if you want to do it, go for it. It’s a great place to work.