Technical Assistant,Quality Assurance - QA/QC Job Paarl area,South Africa,Quality Assurance

My client, a well established fruit exporter based in Paarl is seeking to employ a Technical Assistant:
Berries to join their Quality team.

The successful candidate will have a relevant BSc Degree (Horticulture / Food Science) to focus on compliance with 2
-3 years in a similar role.

Responsibilities:

General

Develop and manage internal technical and due diligence systems as defined by the IFS Quality Management Systems.
Creating and maintaining a database for technical standards and applicable legislation.

Customers Due Diligence Requirements:

Liaise with customers with regards to their food safety, product quality, labelling, MRL, ethical, sustainability requirements.
Implementation of these customer requirements per fruit team and communication back to supply base.

Legislation and Industry/Market Requirements:

Liaise with DAFF, PPECB, FruitSA, auditing bodies and key role players in order to keep up to date with quality, food safety, ethical legislation and requirements applicable to the industry.
MRL requirements
Minimum export standards
Special market protocols and registrations
FBO requirements and registrations
Dispensations
SIZA ethical program
Food Safety standards
Implementation of these standards and legislation and communication back to supply base.
Represent the company at industry technical meetings.

Growers and Packhouse support:

Set supplier approval criteria as per customer and market requirements. Communicate to commercial teams and supply base.
Assists producers at farm level with interpretation and implementation of customer requirements and Good Agricultural Practices (Global Gap, Tesco Nurture, Field to Fork).
Assists packhouses with interpretation and implementation of customer requirements and food safety systems.

Plant Protection Product Usage and other fruit analysis:

Liaise with analytical laboratories with regards to accreditation status, scope of analyses and test results.
Address customer concerns in terms of the use of plant protection products.
Ensure that MRL sampling procedure is followed by monitoring that samples are drawn and results conform to market and customer requirements. Distribute MRL results to supply base and customers.
Assist with managing of incidences where residue analysis exceeds MRL at farm level or on arrival municate to commercial/technical teams for re-testing, re-routing or possible re-call.
Assemble spray-records per farm and variety as required.
Assist with performing of trend analysis for MRL results to determine active ingredients/growers/variety that requires attention in reducing residue levels as requested by customers

Product Quality:

Receive, interpret, capture and communicate QC feedback on arrival of fruit.

IFS Broker - Quality Management System:

Management of the company QMS as per IFS Broker standards.
Implementation and maintenance
Internal auditing (including traceability)
External auditing
HACCP team member with the responsibility for food safety as required by the company's IFS system

Ethical Compliance:

Address customer concerns in terms of ethical pratices within the company's supply chain.
Ensure ethical compliance over the entire supply base by communicating market requirements to producers and growers status to customers.
Follow-up on Sedex and SIZA memberships
Follow-up on SIZA and GRASP ethical audit compliance

Sustainability Strategy:

Address customer concerns and requirements in terms of sustainability practices within the company's supply chain.
Assist in implementation of projects identified by the sustainability strategy (including biodiversity, social, water quality, carbon footprint).

Pre-Season:

Updating Packing Guide that will be sent to Packhouses.
Updating the Export System if there are new varieties / pack types etc.

During Season
Intakes:

Import intake files, received via email and on the Paltrack server
Ensuring the correctness of the pallets fruit spec, and doing corrections where applicable
Follow up on receiving all the applicable Consignment notes for record purposes.
Scan and save inspection documents on Papertrail

Dispatch / Transfers:

Import transfer files, received via email and on the Paltrack server
Ensuring the correctness of the pallets…

Technical Assistant, Quality Assurance - QA​/QC

Technical Assistant, Quality Assurance - QA/QC