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Vacancy Details
One of the oldest farms in Klapmuts is looking to employ a Food Technologist and Quality Manager to expand food product offering.
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DUTIES:
- Maintain brand integrity and product safety whilst performing risk mitigation.
- Contribute towards the category strategy, ensuring innovative and safe products of consistent quality.
- Develop high-quality products using cutting-edge technical innovation that adheres to company brand.
- Manage and monitor the technical team.
- Technical communication and liaison with the buying team, suppliers, quality team and production teams.
- Positively influence all contributing aspects of the supply chain to optimize quality and food safety.
- Lead factory and product process audits within the production facility and supply base.
- Formulate and / or managing product specifications, ensuring accuracy.
- Ensure effective product accept / reject criteria.
- Identify and manage critical control points (CCPs) within production facilities and ensure suppliers identify and manage their CCPs correctly.
- Oversee end-to-end quality management systems within farm production facilities and among external suppliers.
- Provide technical input into category, quality management and supplier strategies and ensure effective implementation
- Oversee packaging development, ensure conformance to legislation.
- Ensure accurate nutritional information and date marking / coding.
- Oversee 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.
- Manage microbiological testing, specifying type of tests, frequency, and accept / reject criteria for both product and environment.
- Improve and ensure production efficiencies within production facilities and the supply base.
- 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.
- Troubleshoot customer complaints and perform route cause analyses.
- Uphold international standards for food manufacturing and processing, using innovative equipment, processing technology knowledge, and experience.
REQUIREMENTS:
- BSC Food Science or BTech Food Technology degree
- 10-15 years industry experience
- Relevant retail experience is required
- Understand high- and low-risk food processing and the correct management of cross flow
- Understand cold chain management and critical control factors for maintain 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
- Knowledge of packaging functionality and application
- Understanding of environmental management and sustainability
CLOSING DATE:
- 31 May 2023
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Application Deadline: July 20 2023