Food Technologist

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 CCPs
- 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 ICPIs (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 SOPs, 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