Job Description

Stella-Jones is a leading manufacturer of essential infrastructure products focused on serving utilities and railroads, as well as supplying big box home improvement stores across North America. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada and publicly traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, Stella-Jones operates a vast network of facilities that employs more than 3,000 employees across the United States and Canada. Built on strong foundations with a coast-to-coast reach, we offer real opportunities for career success and community impact.

Quality Control Technician

Help ensure the quality, safety, and integrity of products that serve critical infrastructure across North America.

The Quality Control Technician I is responsible for ensuring compliance with industry, company, and customer specifications for untreated and treated wood products, preservatives, and treatment solutions. This position plays a vital role in maintaining product quality throughout the manufacturing process by conducting inspections, monitoring processes, identifying nonconformances, and supporting corrective actions.

Working closely with operations and production teams, the Quality Control Technician helps ensure products meet regulatory requirements, customer expectations, and Stella-Jones quality standards while supporting a culture of safety, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

Quality Inspection & Compliance

• Perform post-treatment inspections to verify compliance with AWPA, ANSI O5.1, CSA O15, CSA O80, ASTM D25, and customer-specific requirements.
• Identify, segregate, and mark nonconforming materials for rework, retreatment, or further evaluation.
• Conduct inspections, boring, and chemical analyses of treated charges and issue treatment certificates and reports.
• Apply industry standards and customer specifications while ensuring compliance with internal quality procedures and ISO requirements, where applicable.

Process Monitoring & Quality Assurance

• Monitor critical treatment processes, including moisture content verification and sterilization requirements.
• Verify preservative concentrations, incising, shaving, framing, and other manufacturing processes meet established quality standards.
• Support and uphold Corporate Quality Policies and Procedures.
• Maintain quality databases, reports, and documentation to ensure process consistency and compliance.

Testing & Evaluation

• Perform field and laboratory testing to evaluate product quality and treatment effectiveness.
• Analyze test results and recommend treatment adjustments when necessary.
• Ensure laboratory and inspection equipment is properly calibrated and maintained according to required compliance schedules.

Nonconformance & Corrective Action Management

• Identify and communicate quality nonconformances to appropriate stakeholders.
• Collaborate with production and operations teams to determine appropriate disposition, including rework, retreatment, scrap, or escalation.
• At ISO-certified facilities, initiate and document nonconformance incidents in accordance with the QS-017 Control of Nonconformance procedure.
• Support root cause investigations, implement corrective actions, and perform effectiveness checks as assigned.

Documentation & Reporting

• Maintain accurate inspection logs, assay forms, reject material records, and quality documentation.
• Ensure traceability of reworked materials and maintain complete records of inspections, analyses, specifications, and correspondence.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly compliance reports for plant leadership.

Collaboration & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with treating supervisors and operations teams to optimize treating cycles and solution strengths.
• Coordinate with internal teams and external inspectors to support quality initiatives and regulatory compliance.
• Manage and facilitate third-party quality control inspections.

Additional Responsibilities

• This position may serve as the Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) contact for the facility.
• Perform other related duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Why Join Stella-Jones?

At Stella-Jones, quality is at the core of everything we do. As a Quality Control Technician, you'll play an important role in ensuring our products meet the highest standards of safety, compliance, and performance. This position offers the opportunity to work in a collaborative manufacturing environment where your expertise directly impacts product quality, customer satisfaction, and operational success.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this position.

Employee Benefits:

As a Stella-Jones employee, you will have access to excellent benefits and incentives including:

• The security of working for a company designated as an essential workplace
• Comprehensive total benefits package with 3 medical plans to choose from
• Several company-paid benefits including:
• Dental and Vision coverage
• Life insurance and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) policies
• Long-Term Disability Coverage
• Access to a robust employee assistance program
• Competitive compensation
• Annual bonus program opportunity
• 401(k) savings plan with generous Company match (150% on the first 4% deferred)
• 2 weeks paid vacation and 9 holidays
• Career advancement opportunities
• Ability to purchase Company stock

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled