Food Technology and Quality Manager

6 months ago

Franschhoek, South Africa JSM Business Services Full time

**Responsibilities**:

- Maintaining brand integrity and product safety whilst performing risk mitigation.
- Contributing towards the category strategy, ensuring innovative and safe products of consistent quality
- Developing high-quality products using cutting-edge technical innovation that adheres to company's brand values of quality, freshness, innovation, inspiration, food safety and value.
- Managing and monitoring the technical team in order to meet the company's technical strategy, product plan, and ultimately the category strategy.
- Technical communication and liaison with the buying team, suppliers, quality team and production teams.
- Positively influencing all contributing aspects of the supply chain to optimise quality and food safety.
- Leading factory and product process audits within the production facility and supply base.
- Formulating and/or managing product specifications, ensuring accuracy.
- Ensuring effective product accept/reject criteria.
- Identifying and managing critical control points (CCPs) within production facilities and ensuring that suppliers identify and manage their CCPs correctly.
- Overseeing end-to-end quality management systems within farm production facilities and among external suppliers.
- Providing technical input into category, quality management and supplier strategies and ensuring effective implementation.
- Overseeing packaging development, ensuring conformance to legislation.
- Ensuring accurate nutritional information and date marking/coding.
- Overseeing effective allergen management within all production facilities and among suppliers.
- Supplier approval/sourcing, based on basic hygiene compliance and risk management.
- Shelf-life assessment and implementation.
- Managing microbiological testing, specifying type of tests, frequency, and accept/reject criteria for both product and environment.
- Improving and ensuring production efficiencies within production facilities and the supply base.
- Raw material sourcing and approval: ensuring that production and suppliers source from approved raw material suppliers, and that specifications and allergen management practices are in place.
- Troubleshoot customer complaints and perform route cause analyses.
- Uphold international standards for food manufacturing and processing, using cutting-edge equipment, processing technology knowledge, and experience.

**Requirements**:

- BSc Food Science or BTech Food Technology degree with 10 - 15 years’ industry experience.
- Relevant retail experience is required.
- Understanding of high
- and low-risk food processing and the correct management of cross flow.
- Understanding of cold chain management and critical control factors for maintaining food products in their optimum state.
- Practical experience in and understanding of different food preparation stages and processes.
- Knowledge of technical processes and principles, i.e. HACCP, GMP, root cause analysis, supply chain, raw materials, allergen management, and micro and listeria management.
- Proven, relevant industry experience and knowledge across a wide range of food products.
- Technical product knowledge, i.e. product characteristics, raw material sourcing, manufacturing processes, and quality and safety parameters.
- Understanding of environmental management and sustainability.
- Flexible, with an ability and willingness to travel.
- Fluent in Afrikaans of English, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent computer skills in all facets of use as a technical tool.

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Franschhoek, Western Cape: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- Food Technology and Quality Manager: 10 years (required)

**Language**:

- Afrikaans (required)

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