Food Technology

**Western Cape**, Klapmuts**

**(Market related)**

**One of the oldest farms in Klapmuts is looking to employ a **Food Technologist and Quality Manager** to expand food product offering.**

**EMPLOYMENT TYPE : Permanent**

**SECTOR : Manufacturing/ Production**

**START DATE : A.S.A.P / Immediate**

**DUTIES**:
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- **Maintain brand integrity and product safety whilst performing risk mitigation.**
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- **Contribute towards the category strategy, ensuring innovative and safe products of consistent quality.**
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- **Develop high-quality products using cutting-edge technical innovation that adheres to company brand.**
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- **Manage and monitor the technical team.**
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- **Technical communication and liaison with the buying team, suppliers, quality team and production teams.**
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- **Positively influence all contributing aspects of the supply chain to optimize quality and food safety.**
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- **Lead factory and product process audits within the production facility and supply base.**
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- **Formulate and / or managing product specifications, ensuring accuracy.**
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- **Ensure effective product accept / reject criteria.**
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- **Identify and manage critical control points (CCPs) within production facilities and ensure suppliers identify and manage their CCPs correctly.**
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- **Oversee end-to-end quality management systems within farm production facilities and among external suppliers.**
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- **Provide technical input into category, quality management and supplier strategies and ensure effective implementation**
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- **Oversee packaging development, ensure conformance to legislation.**
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- **Ensure accurate nutritional information and date marking / coding.**
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- **Oversee effective allergen management within all production facilities and among suppliers.**
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- **Supplier approval / sourcing based on basic hygiene compliance and risk management.**
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- **Shelf-life assessment and implementation.**
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- **Manage microbiological testing, specifying type of tests, frequency, and accept / reject criteria for both product and environment.**
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- **Improve and ensure production efficiencies within production facilities and the supply base.**
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- **Raw material sourcing and approval: ensure production and suppliers’ source from approved raw material suppliers, and that specifications and allergen management practices are in place.**
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- **Troubleshoot customer complaints and perform route cause analyses.**
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- **Uphold international standards for food manufacturing and processing, using innovative equipment, processing technology knowledge, and experience.**
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**REQUIREMENTS**:
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- **BSC Food Science or BTech Food Technology degree**
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- **10 - 15 years’ industry experience**
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- **Relevant retail experience is required**
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- **Understand high
- and low-risk food processing and the correct management of cross flow**
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- **Understand cold chain management and critical control factors for maintain food products in their optimum state**
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- **Practical experience in and understanding of different food preparation stages and processes**
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- **Knowledge of technical processes and principles, i.e. HACCP, GMP, root cause analysis, supply chain, raw materials, allergen management, and micro and listeria management**
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- **Proven, relevant industry experience and knowledge across a wide range of food products**
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- **Technical product knowledge, i.e. product characteristics, raw material sourcing, manufacturing processes, and quality and safety parameters**
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- **Understanding of environmental management and sustainability**
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**CLOSING DATE**:
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- **31 May 2023**
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**today.**
- For more information please contact:
**Lisa Snyman