RCL Foods is hiring Quality Control Monitor Vacancies

Full Time

Website RCL Foods

RCL FOODS is one of South Africa’s leading food manufacturers, producing a broad basket of branded and private label food products in multiple categories, from household staples to value-added and speciality offerings. As a leading food producer in South Africa, we have a market capitalisation of R13 billion and employ more than 21 000 people in operations across South and Southern Africa.

RCL Foods is hiring Quality Control Monitor Vacancies in Pretoria.

Purpose of the role

  • To effectively monitor and maintain all relevant food safety systems.
  • To ensure that production samples requiring external lab analysis are submitted timeously and to compare results to the specification, ensuring positive release of only conforming product.
  • To identify and communicate non-conforming product to the QA Technologist for further action.
  • The QC Monitor will be expected to act QA Technologist when needed.

Minimum Requirements

  • Matric.
  • Bsc Consumer Science/ Food Science/ B-tech Food Technology/ National Diploma Food Technology/ Biotechnology
  • IS0 22000 Implementation/ FSSC 22000

Duties & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities

  • Identify and submit all samples requiring external analytical/microbiological testing on a daily basis. Ensuring that testing is completed timeously to avoid shipping delays
  • Monitor all Food Safety activities in relation to FSSC 22000 and customer requirements

External Analysis:

  • Compile a customer database that stipulates their external analysis needs and continuously update to keep it current.
  • Identify and submit all samples requiring external analytical/microbiological testing on a daily basis. Ensuring that testing is as per customer requirements and it is completed timeously to avoid shipping delays.
  • Managing environmental monitoring program, ensuring swabs are taken as per the testing schedule.
  • Managing external testing samples, by ensuring all samples are taken aseptically to avoid cross-contamination.
  • Managing external analytical/ chemical tests as per the testing schedule.
  • Evaluate and trend results to ensure compliance to specification.
  • Identify any non-conforming product, communicating this information to the relevant stakeholders