Quality and Compliance Manager
Our client in the Agricultural Industry - Robertson, has a vacancy for a Quality and Compliance Manager to join their team. The successful candidate will be responsible for the overall management of the department and includes the efficiency, productivity, staff, equipment, hygiene, health & safety and compliance. Maintaining and improving all quality, compliance, health & safety, environmental and ethical systems within the packhouse.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Perform supervisory responsibilities complying with organizations policies and applicable laws.
- Plan, assign and direct work team members.
- Determine and drive strategic direction for department.
- Accountable for the day-to-day decision-making in operations as it pertains to the department efficiencies, cost and risk.
- Implement, maintain and review the compliance systems within the packhouse.
- Oversee food safety, quality and hygiene systems effectiveness through regular internal and external audits, with corrective actions put in place timeously and effectively.
- Oversee the food safety culture systems – quarterly reports and action plans.
- Ensure effective and accurate feedback to producer queries.
- Manage the quality team, tests, inspections and data accuracy through the process flow.
- Review regulatory standards and trends to stay updated on issues in the field of quality control and compliance.
- Control 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 with regulation and customer specifications to eliminate pallet rejections and quality comebacks.
- Ensure accurate internal quality checks are performed, 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.
- Analyze quality control test results and provide timely feedback and interpretation to the 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.
- Coordinate compliance audit schedules and audit non-conformances, and communicate expectations and reporting results.
Desired Experience & Qualification
- 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.
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