Key Responsibilities
- Intake or decline products within the approved sampling and traceability guidelines, staging of products on FIFO or product quality and viability and dispatch through positive release
- Implement and train quality, food and safety standard operating policies and procedures to technical floor staff, contractors and service providers
- Implement and maintain updated standards, procedures, product specifications and systems related to all aspects of quality, food and safety
- Review product batch records and other related documents to verify product compliance to shelf-life days
- Conduct reliable testing of internal and external quality assessment of products
- Conduct daily safety toolkit talks to shop floor staff and maintain records
- Enforce plant hygiene i.e. cleaning sanitation, fumigation, sterilization and waste management
- Review, and track trends related to the root causes of incidents, recommend corrective actions, monitor implementation, incorporate learnings into ways of working and documentation, and update all relevant stakeholders as required
- Implement corrective actions as per the outcomes of the root cause analysis done
- Monitor all food handlers to make sure that all food handling tasks are properly and safely carried out
- Participate actively in activities of food safety team and health and safety team as required
- Analyse data to identify areas for improvement in the quality food and safety management system
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree preferred (food science, food technology, human nutrition, agriculture and horticulture)
- Certification is an advantage including food safety, quality auditor, quality improvement associate, six sigma
- Quality inspection, auditing, sampling, and testing experience
- Experience with implementation of corrective action programs
- Product or industry-specific experience
- Knowledge of tools, concepts, and methodologies of QA
- Knowledge of relevant regulatory requirement
- Trained first aider and/or fire marshal