Quality Check

**JD for Quality Controller in Food Industry**

This key role is responsible for ensuring that food products meet the established standards of quality and food safety set by both Seek and regulatory authorities.
- Strong verbal and interpersonal skills: Able to communicate clearly and effectively and at the appropriate level with various types of people (i.e. with senior managers, colleagues and the public).
- Flexible/Adaptive/Resilient: Able to shift strategies and accept other viewpoints. Adapts quickly and effectively to changing situations. Able to overcome disappointments and learn from the setbacks to bounce back. Able to adjust to unexpected change.
- Organised/time management/prioritisation: Able to take an organised approach to all tasks in order to prioritise them according to the demands of the business
- Detail orientated and observant: A strong eye for detail, identifying quality and process problems early
- Industry Knowledge: Food safety knowledge, experience in a quality role in a production environment,
- Process Implementation & Improvement: Experience implementing company process or policy,ability to actively identify and develop improvements
- Health & Safety: Awareness of H&S legislative requirements, and experience in the implementation of these
- People Management: Experienced in managing people effectively in order to achieve business objectives
- Training provided in Food Safety protocols for staff in Production roles
- Maintain records for Food Safety compliance requirements
- Ensure correct quality process is followed and ensure training given quickly where necessary
- Assist the Production Supervisor with hands on operational activities when needed, ensuring production requirements are met
- Ensure that all data for the production is completed and meets traceability requirements.
- Independent testing undertaken as per procedures
- Inspection of equipment to meet quality control standards.
- Provide recommendations on procedures, standards and equipment to maintain product quality.
- Assist with maintaining the plant and equipment according to determined standards as required
- Inspects and ensures high quality of product which matches pre
- determined specifications
- Investigates customer complaints and any non-conformance issues
- Prepares reports, compiles and maintains records on product quality status, and all tests and inspections that have been conducted.
- Implements food tests and maintains schedule of testing.
- Inspects the facility to ensure a high level of cleanliness is maintained in order to meet food safety requirements.
- Assures ongoing compliance with quality and food safety regulatory requirements
- Coordinate and supports on site audits conducted by external providers
- Determines methods to resolve any quality or food safety compliance issues that arise
- Quality of product is monitored and meets requirements
- Quality and technical specification meet standards expected
- Record and maintain batch data for all products
- Analyse possible reasons for product defects and quality lapses.
- Analyse possible reasons into process deviations and for product defects and quality lapses.
- Develop SOPs and infrastructure requirements for laboratories and optimal calibration standards in line with good laboratory practice (GLP) requirements.
- Develop inspection and testing protocols for materials, products and packaging.
- Develop methods for the testing quality of materials, products and packaging.
- Develop product and process quality metric reports.
- Develop sampling plans for quality control purposes.
- Develop standard operating procedures (SOPs) that are align with regulatory requirements, industry guidelines and organisation's policies.
- Establish SOPs and conditions for handling, storage and preservation of samples.
- Implement plans and strategies to support provision of safe food products.
- Inspect facilities, equipment, products or production lines to ensure food is prepared according to safety regulations and situational health sections.
- Investigate technical faults and practices that impact laboratory equipment operations.
- Lead quality and food safety related audits.
- Lead traceability investigations on the source of quality lapses and other product issues.
- Oversee corrective and preventative actions (CAPA) implementation and documentations with other departments.
- Participate in quality management system reviews and promote quality and food safety policies to all personnel.
- Review reports and develop guidelines and standard practices for data documentations and analysis.
- Specify the protocols and laboratory infrastructure and equipment to be inspected and tested.
- Verify alignment of sampling documentation, testing activities and procedures with established protocols to identify issues.
- Verify quality control (QC) records, test results and reports for regulatory authorities.
- Responsible for the quality control aspects of raw materia