Quality Controller

Purpose of the job:

To establish, maintain and ensure adherence to the Food Safety & Quality Standards as required in the facility at all times, and to manage all resources required to achieve this objective

Job specifications and experience:

• Relevant Quality or similar qualification
• Min 3 years in a Quality Control role
• Fully bilingual (Afrikaans & English) Own transport

Key responsibilities:

• Food Safety and Food Safety Systems:
• Ensure facility complies at all times with relevant audit standard.
• Take responsibility in terms of quality and legislative compliance for all for all products produced inside the facility.
• Coordinate all aspects of the laboratory and product testing
• Raise non-conformances (internal and for customer complaints) to address any issues relating to a deviation from the system, or relating to products manufactured that may be unsafe or consumption. Investigating root causes and implementing corrective and preventative action.
• Assist all representatives on a technical Food Quality level should it be required.
• Product Quality:
• Ensure that all products manufactured are of unfailing quality, as per product specifications and customer expectation.
• Ensure functionality of all final products are maintained as per their intended use (preservative levels, anti-oxidant levels, curing salt levels and product colour).
• Ensure procedures in the quality laboratory are followed to ensure products adhere to specification (Taste tests, SO2, nitrite tests, COA’s etc.).
• Investigate quality issues that arise and implement corrective and preventative actions
• Ensure that all raw materials conform to specification as per production and customer requirements.
• Ensure all external testing requirements are fulfilled.
• Other:
• Communicate and problem solve issues with customers, as well as with customers of other parts of the Exim Group.
• As per operational requirements, you may be required to perform ad hoc tasks from time to time.
• Oversee the operational projects until handover

If you have not heard from us in two weeks’ after the closing date for application, please consider your application unsuccessful.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: R7 500,00 - R9 500,00 per month

Application Question(s):

• how many years of FMCG Experience do you have?
• how many years of experience do you have as a Quality controller
• do you have experience working with spice ?

Education:

• High School (matric) (Required)

Language:

• Afrikaans and English (Required)

Work Location: In person