Food Technologist

SUMMARY:
Crucial role and excellent growth opportunity for a qualified Food Technologist looking to gain experience.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• Degree/Diploma in Food technology or related qualification or similar experience as a Food Safety officer, Quality compliance officer or Quality Manager
• In depth knowledge and experience in implementing a GFSI recognized system.
• Trained as a FSSC22000 Internal auditor and experienced in auditing Food Safety systems.
• Driver’s license.
• Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite or related software

POSITION INFO:
Responsibilities:

• Conduct active internal audits on systems: FSSC2200 and Report writing and effective corrective action, Feedback to top management
• Ensure external audits by customers and certification bodies are successful to achieve certification and supplier approval
• Ensure world class hygiene practices as per ISO22002 standard
• Implement consistently the HACCP & FSSC 22000 standards, ensuring all staff maintain the policy regulations.
• Ensure all Packhouse staff adhere to specifications and policies
• When a rejection takes place follow up and prevent a reacurrance
• Spot checks on all internal Quality control, and Food Safety Files and relevant documentation, signing of all Shelf life sheets on daily basis, verifying Sell by dates etc.
• Verification of information handed in by staff related to food quality and food safety efficiencies of processes
• Verifying all cleaning procedures
• Ensure that Verification and validation studies cleaning, water treatment and product processing re done.
• Implementation and training of all new and existing policies, procedures, food safety standards, and customer specifications to staff
• Manage CCP’s
• Management of the Lab services and suppliers
• Arranging of water and product sampling and sending away for tests to various SANAS laboratories for chemical and microbiological analysis to fulfill all legal and customer requirements as per schedule.
• Responsible for Quality and daily product review and reporting to top management all quality issues
• Ensure and assess raw material and brand integrity including packaging
• Liaise with customers on complaints, do root cause analysis, identify corrective and preventive actions, follow up on effectiveness.
• Spend a minimum of 60% of time on the floor with the staff.
• Assist in good corporate governance and ensure costs are kept in line
• Management of staff complement.
• Conduct monthly meetings
• Oversee health & Safety for the farm and packhouse
• Conduct Risk Assessment (H&S) for packhouse and farm
• Stand in for packhouse manager in his absence
• Maintain the calibration schedule for equipment & ensuring all is up to date.
• Trending of monthly ICPI’s (Rejections, Micros Results etc.)
• Waste Management
• Ordering and issuing staff PPE
• Chemical management (ensuring there is enough chemical stock), ensuring each batch comes with a COA
• Compiling and updating and reviewing of SOP’s, Work Instructions and policies
• Complete all administration procedures
• Document control
• Updating the filing system
• Keeping track of all packhouse requirements to maintain the company certifications and upgrading existing
• Updating and keeping track of all specification and submissions of the Supplier portals
• Internal document control
• Chairing meetings as needed monthly management meeting and management reviews on an annual basis, FST and Production meetings