De Grendel Wine Estate, situated in Panorama, facing the beautiful Table Mountain, currently has the above mentioned vacancy available.
Job Purpose: Ensures that all products, from receiving of raw material to dispatch of final products meet the requirements and specifications in relation to food safety compliance and to free up more time for the cellar master and winemaker to spend in the market. Ensures compliance to WIETA and or SMETA where applicable, and any other compliance requirements.
Major Duties and Responsibilities: Supervises and assist staff to adhere to company food safety standards & any other compliance requirements (may be customer based)
Responsibilities:
- Ensure adherence to GMP (Good manufacturing practises), Food Safety and product quality standards
- Maintenance & record keeping of all PRP’s (including pest control)
- Monitoring bottling & labelling of wine
- In charge of producing and filing of production sheets, batch codes
- Do technical checks on stock in production/cellar, e.g., pH, temperature.
- Constant quality checks
- Produce retention samples and keep retention sample list up to date
- Keep hygiene checklist up to date on daily basis
- Issue chemicals to staff on daily basis and keep inventory list up to date
- Keep record of daily, weekly, and monthly cleaning schedules
- In charge of storing and proper marking of raw materials to ensure traceability.
- Issue raw material to staff (where required)
- In charge of cleaning and general neatness of cellar & stores
- Report any problems in the food safety management system
- Report any non-conformances against any compliance standards
- Completion of registers (equipment, blade & glass & hard plastic, daily hygiene checks)
- Raising NC’s & assisting in investigation thereof & implementation of corrective actions
- Verification of cleaning registers
- Completion & maintenance of all required food safety documentation/records relating to a GFSI benchmarked standard
- Completion & maintenance of all required documentation/records relating to any other compliance requirements e.g. WIETA, Organic
- Manages food safety traceability on platforms such as WineMS and EzyWine
- Lab analysis relating to quality and food safety
Skills and Qualifications:
- Grade 12
- Attention to detail
- Organised
- Diligent
- Communication Skills
- Honesty
To Apply:
To apply for this position please send your CV to hr@degrendel.co.za by 27 June 2025.