Quality Control ​/ SHE Officer

Location: Somerset West

Our client is looking for a hands-on Quality Control / SHE Officer to oversee quality control, safety, and compliance within a small-scale production facility. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring repackaged dry pulses consistently meet required quality standards, while maintaining a safe, clean, and compliant working environment.

This is a practical, operational role requiring direct involvement in production inspections, quality checks, safety activities, and day-to-day operational supervision, with responsibility for ensuring company policies, procedures, and quality standards are effectively implemented.

Key responsibilities

• Conduct inspections and quality checks on incoming raw materials, packaging, production processes, and finished products
• Monitor product weights, sealing, labelling, date coding, sampling, and overall product quality
• Ensure compliance with GMP, food safety, hygiene, cleaning and sanitation, pest control, and quality management programmes
• Monitor pest control activities and liaise with external service providers
• Ensure production and QC checks are completed accurately and records are properly maintained
• Manage on-hold, rejected, damaged, and non-conforming products, including segregation, release, and disposal.
• Maintain product traceability, batch records, stock rotation (FIFO), and assist with mock recalls and traceability exercises
• Arrange external product testing, manage documentation, and follow up on out-of-specification results
• Train production staff on food safety, quality, hygiene, and food handling requirements.
• Assist with factory trials, first production runs, investigations, customer complaints, and corrective actions
• Participate in regulatory, customer, and third-party audits and assist with corrective action responses
• Conduct daily SHE inspections, identify workplace hazards, and ensure appropriate PPE is used
• Monitor housekeeping, waste disposal, equipment safety, emergency preparedness, and safe working practices
• Report and assist with the investigation of incidents and near-misses
• Support the implementation and ongoing compliance of company policies, procedures, quality systems, and food safety programmes

Requirements

• Matric / Grade 12 with relevant food industry experience and training.
• 1–2 years’ experience in a quality control, food safety, or SHE-related role within the food industry
• Qualification or certification in Food Safety / GMP; FSSC 22000 Version 6 (advantageous)
• Good attention to detail with strong organisational and recordkeeping skills
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and manage multiple tasks
• Basic computer literacy, including Microsoft Office
• Practical, hands-on approach with the ability to work effectively in a production environment

Food Safety Requirements/ Responsibilities

• Enforce personnel hygiene, sanitation and food safety and quality related activities
• Perform and enforce Food Safety and Quality Control related activities as part of the Health and Safety and FSQMS