Quality Assurance Specialist

1 month ago


Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, South Africa Top Talent Professional Services Full time
Job Title: QA Value Add, Food Scientist – Ready to Eat

This role will report directly to the QA Manager and be responsible for implementing, maintaining, improving, and standardizing current product quality standards for Ready-to-eat products.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Implementing quality standards from raw material approval to final packing of ready-to-eat products
  • Assisting with system implementation and improvement functions, flow diagrams, hazard analysis, procedures, QC records
  • Conducting analytical testing of products
  • Raw material sourcing, approval, and testing
  • Accelerated and real-time shelf-life studies of products
  • Liaising with suppliers in relevant quality issues
  • Ensuring legislative compliance
  • Supporting cross-functional teams and managing product cost cutting, sensory evaluation, and reformulation and improvement of current products
  • Assisting in training a DSE panel
  • Panel leader in consumer tests and trails
  • Driving continuous improvement, results, and problem-solving/root cause investigations of production problems
  • Ensuring the required quality, safety, hygiene, and environmental standards are implemented, maintained, and improved
  • Ensuring hygiene standards, cleaning procedures, practices, and equipment are continually re-evaluated and in line with best practice, customer guidelines, and legislation
  • Ensuring cleaning procedures in food manufacturing areas are maintained and correct use of cleaning materials (from handling, to storage and documentation)
Requirements and Experience:
  • Degree in Food Science
  • Ingredient/equipment sourcing, approval, procurement, product costing, product development preferred
  • HACCP and Food Safety Legislation knowledge
  • Good Interpersonal Relationships and Strong Communication Skills
  • Must be self-motivated, disciplined, ethical, and confident
  • Excellent Organisational and Work Planning Skills
  • Attention to Detail and Results Driven
  • Computer literacy, Word, Microsoft, etc.
  • A minimum of 5 years relevant experience
  • Production environment with time pressure where a person needs to be able to deliver accurate results fast and be able to perform under pressure
  • Needs to have a valid driver's license and own vehicle
  • Continuous change person needs to be agile and adapt quickly

Salary - +- R600 000pa CTC



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