QUALIFICATIONS

EXPERIENCE

5 years previous experience in a FMCG Production or Manufacturing environment including managing Food Safety Systems and external audits.

KNOWLEDGE REQUIRED

SKILLS REQUIRED

Excellent communication and listening skills. Problem solving and people management skills will be an advantage

KEY PERFORMANCE AREAS (KPAS)

QUALITY ASSURANCE

Constantly updating documents on new Food Safety standards, legislation, and or other requirements.
Acting as the Companys Food Safety Coordinator (FSSC22000) and Hygiene Officer (Meat Safety Act).
Ensure continuous improvement on product Food Safety and product Quality.
Setting compliance specification of raw materials and finished products regarding Micro and Chemistry looking at relevant legislation.
Manage Internal Audit processes and do problem solving to find root causes on Quality deviations.
Arrange Food Safety meetings and management review meetings.
Compiling of HACCP studies, process flow and processing procedures.
Decide for external audit and ensure requirements are met during audit.
Ensure that customer complaints are attended to, action is taken, and feedback is given to management.

QUALITY CONTROLLER

Managing all Quality and Laboratory staff inclluding but not limited to discipline in the workplace, time keeping and ensuring all personal hygiene checks are done before production begins.
Ensure staff follow Company SOPs and policies.
Communicate to staff in morning meetings regarding issues brought to your attention during your meetings (for example customer complaints, production focus areas).
To ensure that all staff are productive at all time.

LABORATORY

Design of documents, procedures and reports for the Laboratory as and when required.
Managing budgets.
Ordering of lab consumables.
Lab results verification.
Ensure tat area is working to recognized standard.
Ensure proficiency testing is done and logging and analysing of proficiency.
Typing COAs as requested.
Make sure that product tested are tested according to the sampling plan.
Make sure that COAs are available for export audits.

IMPLEMENT AND MAINTAIN 5S AND QUANTUM LEAN METHODS