Food Safety & Quality Assurance Officer – Meat Plant

The Food Safety & Quality Assurance Officeris responsible for ensuring, through the implementation and monitoring of effective food safety and quality management systems, CPJ’s products consistently meet agreed standards.

• Assists the QA Manager in the development, implementation and maintenance of the company’s food safety and quality management systems, inclusive of the Prerequisite Programme and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) system in all food manufacturing, handling, storage and distribution facilities.
• Ensure that all food products processed conform to public safety regulations and standards established by local and foreign regulatory bodies e.g. Bureau of Standards, Jamaica, Ministry of Agriculture (Jamaica), US FDA/ FSMA, United Sates Department of Agriculture (USDA), among others.
• Improves and drives food safety culture.
• Provides leadership and development of the Quality Assurance Team under supervision.
• Develops, implements and undertakes assessments of the company’s food safety and quality management processes and systems and ensures the effective implementation of corrective actions.
• Drives continuous improvement.
• Work closely with the Managers and Supervisors of all food manufacturing, handling, storage and distribution facilities to ensure compliance with product specification and regulatory requirements.
• Provide guidance and support to the Senior Management Team on matters relating to food safety and quality assurance.
• Oversight of laboratory quality assurance programme to ensure laboratory results are credible and maintain all laboratory and calibration records for review.
• Ensure that effective internal and supplier audits are carried out with sufficient frequency to verify compliance with all food safety and quality assurance procedures and standards.
• Collect, trend and report customer feedback on product quality and drive implementation of effective steps to make any necessary improvements.
• Establish and communicate specifications and quality attributes for the Company’s products, key raw material and ingredients.
• Define, modify and implement quality assurance procedures to monitor relevant quality attributes and take corrective action where necessary.
• Ensure proper documentation of all non-conformances to CPJ’s Food Safety and Quality Management System (FSQMS) and the subsequent corrective actions.
• Ensure compliance to all established SOPs, food safety requirements, good manufacturing practices, and sanitation requirements in accordance to CPJ’s FSQMS.
• Develop, maintain, and provide employee quality training as it relates to Food Safety and Quality Management, inclusive of Good Manufacturing Practices and Chemical Usage and Application.
• Follow-up in a timely manner to ensure non-conformances and customer complaints are documented, corrective actions are monitored and effectively closed out.
• Work closely with Pest Management Professionals and trained company pest control personnel to address specific aspects of the food safety management system.
• Develop, review, validate and implement all standard operating procedures and food safety protocols.
• Monitor staff compliance to GMPs in all food manufacturing, handling, storage and distribution facilities.
• Assist in recruitment and orientation of new department employees and ensure that appropriate training is coordinated and done for existing employees.
• Continually update job knowledge by studying trends in and developments in quality management; participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.
• Effectively complete all other activities as delegated by the supervising authorities.
• Any other duties as may be assigned.

• Leading the development, implementation, review, and maintenance of the SQF system.
• Taking appropriate action to ensure the integrity of the SQF system.
• Communicating information to management to ensure that the system is effective in meeting its objectives.
• The SQF Practitioner for each facility, prepares for and schedules monthly food safety…