My Client is seeking to recruit a competent, committed, self-motivated and enthusiastic candidate to join their team in the above-mentioned position.
Job purpose:
Overall management of department that includes but not limited to efficiency, productivity, staff, equipment, hygiene, health & safety and compliance. Maintaining and improving all quality, compliance, health and safety, environmental and ethical systems within the packhouse.
Responsibilities
- Perform Supervisory responsibilities complying with organizations policies and applicable laws.
- Plan, assign and direct work team members.
- Determine and drives strategic direction for department.
- Accountable for the day to day decision-making in operations as it pertains to the department efficiencies, cost and risk.
- Oversee and review the Compliance Systems within the packhouse..
- Overseeing food safety, quality and hygiene systems effectivity through regular internal and external audits, with corrective actions put in place timeously and effectively.
- Overseeing the Food Safety Culture Systems – quarterly reports and action plans.
- Ensure effective and accurate feedback to producer queries.
- Manage and manage the quality team, tests, inspections and data accuracy through the process flow.
- Reviewing regulatory standards and trends to stay updated on issues in the field of quality control and compliance.
- Controlling administrative operations such as budget planning, report preparation, expenditure and ensuring the efficient use of resources.
- Ensure that all standards and requirements are assessed and non-conformances clearly raised with the respective departments. Ensure that all corrective actions and process controls are validated for effectiveness on non-conformance close-out.
- Ensure that all procedures in the department are followed according to policies and procedures and that all required records are completed accurately and timeously, with any deviations reported to management as soon as possible.
- Ensure that final product quality complies to regulation and customer specifications to eliminate pallet rejections and quality comebacks.
- Ensure accurate internal quality checks are performed, oversee compliance and health and safety walkthroughs such as glass control, pest checks and H&S are done timeously and thorough record keeping of such events.
- Analysing quality control tests results and providing timeously feedback and interpretation to packhouse manager (QMS,MRL’s, water sampling, internals, intake QC, Cull factor , line and final inspections).
- Oversee reports regarding non-conformances of products or processes, daily production quality, root cause analysis or quality trends.
- Coordination of compliance audit schedules and audit non-conformances, and communication of expectations and reporting results.
Requirements
- Grade 12 as a minimum, but a qualification in a related field will be beneficial.
- Previous experience in a similar environment (Fruit Packhouse) is a prerequisite.
- Internal Auditor qualification and experience will be beneficial.
- Global Standard for Food Safety, BRC, HACCP and Global Gap experience or certification.
- Citrus QA experience
Competencies and Skills
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent problem solving, analytical and numerical abilities are crucial.
- Excellent knowledge and computer skills (MS Office)
- Effective handling of detailed information and consistent attention to detail
- Ability to work with little supervision and track multiple processes.
- Must be a team player.
This position reports to the General Manager.
Please forward a CV in WORD format: cvs@agricruitment.co.za
Closing date for applications: 09 August 2024
Please indicate salary expectation and notice period on application
Please consider your application as unsuccessful if you have not been contacted within 2 weeks.
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