Food Quality Manager Cape Town

Outside Capital; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 50 000 - 100 000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Food Technology and Quality Manager to ensure product safety and quality in Cape Town. This role involves maintaining brand integrity, managing a technical team, and overseeing quality management systems throughout production facilities. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in food science, a strong understanding of food safety protocols, and the ability to innovate while adhering to strict quality standards. Join a dynamic team dedicated to delivering safe and high-quality food products that inspire and satisfy consumers.

Qualifications

• 10-15 years of industry experience in food technology and quality management.
• Understanding of food processing and cross-contamination management.

Responsibilities

• Maintain brand integrity and product safety while performing risk mitigation.
• Manage technical team to meet product and category strategy.

Skills

Food Safety Management

Risk Mitigation

Quality Control

Cold Chain Management

HACCP Knowledge

Root Cause Analysis

Allergen Management

Microbiology Knowledge

Education

BS in Food Science

BTech in Food Technology

Job description

Food Technology and Quality Manager

Our client seeks a Food Technology and Quality Manager to join their team in Cape Town.

Responsibilities

1. Maintaining brand integrity and product safety while performing risk mitigation.
2. Contributing to category strategy, ensuring innovative and safe products of consistent quality.
3. Developing high-quality products using cutting-edge technical innovation that adhere to brand values of quality, freshness, innovation, inspiration, food safety, and value.
4. Managing and monitoring the technical team to meet technical strategy, product plan, and category strategy.
5. Technical communication and liaison with the buying team, suppliers, quality team, and production teams.
6. Influencing supply chain aspects to optimize quality and food safety.
7. Leading factory and product process audits within production facilities and supply base.
8. Formulating and managing product specifications, ensuring accuracy.
9. Ensuring effective product accept/reject criteria.
10. Identifying and managing critical control points (CCPs) within production facilities and ensuring suppliers manage their CCPs correctly.
11. Overseeing end-to-end quality management systems within farm production facilities and among external suppliers.
12. Providing technical input into category, quality management, and supplier strategies, and ensuring their effective implementation.
13. Overseeing packaging development, ensuring conformance to legislation.
14. Ensuring accurate nutritional information, date marking, and coding.
15. Managing allergen control within production facilities and among suppliers.
16. Supplier approval and sourcing based on hygiene compliance and risk management.
17. Shelf-life assessment and implementation.
18. Managing microbiological testing, including test types, frequency, and acceptance/rejection criteria for products and environment.
19. Improving production efficiencies within facilities and the supply base.
20. Raw material sourcing and approval, ensuring specifications and allergen practices are in place.
21. Troubleshooting customer complaints and performing root cause analysis.
22. Upholding international standards for food manufacturing and processing, utilizing advanced equipment and technology.

Qualifications & Experience

• BS in Food Science or BTech in Food Technology with 10-15 years of industry experience.
• Relevant retail experience.
• Understanding of high- and low-risk food processing and cross-contamination management.
• Knowledge of cold chain management and critical control points.
• Practical experience in food preparation stages and processes.
• Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, root cause analysis, supply chain, raw materials, allergen management, microbiology, and Listeria management.
• Proven industry experience across various food products.
• Technical knowledge of product characteristics, sourcing, manufacturing, and quality/safety parameters.
• Knowledge of packaging functionality and environmental management and sustainability practices.