Quality Assurance Manager - FSSC Quality Systems - Food/Packaging Industry

SUMMARY:
An established and well-known Flexible Packaging Manufacturing Company supplying products into the food industry requires a Quality Assurance Manager to be responsible for managing, implementing and overseeing the implementation and maintenance of best practice quality standards and systems within their manufacturing plant.

POSITION INFO:

Minimum requirements for the role:

• A BTech. Degree in Quality or related or certifications for HACCP is essential for the role.
• Previous experience having worked as a QA Manager implementing and managing FSSC 22000 quality systems is essential.
• Previous experience having worked within the packaging and or food or related industry is preferred.
• The successful candidate must have implemented FSSC 22 000 quality systems
• The successful candidate must be able to work on their own and be computer literate with good computer skills.

The successful candidate will be responsible for:

• Ensuring continuous compliance with legal, statute, standards and quality requirements.
• Maintaining FSSC 22000 quality systems and managing the quality database.
• Compiling daily, weekly and monthly quality reports.
• Coordinating internal training for staff and conducting competency evaluations.
• Overseeing and managing hygiene, quality and safety assurance.
• Conducting internal audits and external audits.
• Managing compliance of all approved Suppliers, certificate of analysis, specifications and non-conformities of Suppliers as well as investigations and initiating corrective actions from Suppliers.
• Investigating root causes, non-conformities in terms of operational quality and compliance.
• Managing compliance of products to specifications.
• Ensuring products comply to standards and legislation.
• Investigating and resolving internal and external product quality problems.
• Reviewing and making recommendations for changes to the site quality procedures.
• Ensure HACCP studies and critical control points audits are done on time.
• Auditing and updating inspection plans as well as traceability schedules.
• Attending production meetings to address issues related to systems and quality.
• Escalating non-conformances of packaging material to the Supplier.
• Supervising uplifting of non-conformance material.

Salary package, including benefits, is highly negotiable depending on experience gained.

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