Food Technologist at Rhodes Food Group

About the position

Duties & Responsibilities

• Act as a member of the food safety team and food safety culture team

• Investigate and solve any microbiological issues on components, final products and environmental and cleaning efficacy

• Inform suppliers of non-conforming products and follow-up on corrective action

• Investigate and solve any quality issues on components and final products

• Investigate customer complaints and implement appropriate corrections, corrective actions, and preventative actions

• Investigate RTV's and implement appropriate corrections, corrective action, and preventative actions.

• Investigate non-conforming shelf-life results and implement appropriate corrections, corrective action, and preventative actions.

• Investigate any other food safety or quality non-conformances and implement corrective and preventative actions.

• Conduct internal audits and assist in managing the internal audit schedule

• Ensure that non-conformance reports (NCR's) are completed and investigated by the responsible department/supplier

• Maintain supplier assurance and related documents.

• Liaise with customers regarding any queries, customer complaints and other quality issues.

• Complete weekly and monthly trending reports

• Verify of Process and QC activities

• Supervision of QC supervisors

• Daily Critical control point (CCP) verification

• Conduct internal training as per training schedule.

• Update of documentation relevant to the Food Safety and Quality Management System

• Work on electronic systems for non-conformances, document control, updating and process verification.

• Conduct Traceability and mock recall studies and report any non-conformances.

• Review and update of Food safety policies and procedures.

• Review and update production records as needed.

• Retrieving export documents.

Factory Responsibilities:

• Maintain presence in factory to monitor and enforce hygiene and housekeeping rules and perform internal audits. Report any non-conformances w.r.t these audits conducted.

• Report any food safety or quality related issues as noticed in the factory.

• Raise maintenance job cards for food safety related issues.

• Total presence in factory during deep clean, inspection of all areas and releasing factory after cleaning.

• Make corrections; implement corrective and preventative actions that are factory based as required.

• Oversee processes and procedures inside the factory.

• Validations of CCP's .

Food Safety Team Responsibilities:

• Duties as per signed letter of appointment.

• Attend Food Safety Team meetings.

• Take actions as per Food Safety Team meeting minutes.

Desired Experience & Qualification

• A recognized tertiary qualification in Food Technology/Food Science;

• Minimum 3 - 4 years' experience in the Food or Beverage Industry with specific focus on quality assurance

• Exposure to bakery and pastry manufacturing will be advantageous.

• Exposure to Shopware system will be advantageous.

• A strong technical ability

• Good knowledge of Food Safety Management principles and Good Manufacturing

Practices

• A sound knowledge of FSSC 22000, Food processing and Woolworths Code of Practice

• Microsoft Office literacy