Raw materials quality controller

BevCo; KwaMakhutha; On-site; ZAR 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

BevCo is seeking a Raw Materials QC professional to ensure quality assurance and food safety for all incoming materials. You will manage supplier documentation, conduct audits, and enforce allergen management and GMP standards.

The role requires coordinating kosher and halal certifications and handling supplier non-conformances. You will work within the Quality team to ensure timely calibration, accurate data capture, and enforcement of laboratory practices in a fast-paced FMCG environment.

Qualifications

• Grade 12 or higher with relevant diploma in food technology/chemistry.
• Experience in FMCG or食品 manufacturing QA is desirable.
• Experience with audits (Kosher/Halaal) and supplier QA is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Manage the supplier database and ensure up-to-date supplier folders.
• Close out supplier certifications, update audit registers, and enforce corrective actions.
• Perform raw materials QC analyses, ensure COAs for every batch, and uphold GMP practices.
• Lead allergen management, halal and kosher certifications, and supplier non-conformance handling.

Skills

Quality control

Attention to detail

Problem solving

Education

Grade 12 / Matric

National Diploma in Food Technology/Analytical Chemistry

Tools

MS Excel

MS Word

Email

Job description

Raw Materials QC – Closing date 15 September 2026

Quality

Accountable for specialist outputs, as well as initiating quality standards within defined work routines and policies.

Job Purpose

To ensure effective standards of quality assurance through the effective execution of raw materials quality control and food safety. Manages Kosher and Halaal audits and ensures supplier quality assurance. The role enforces the allergen management PRP where applicable

Key Accountabilities and Outputs

Supplier Quality Assurance

• Manage the supplier database
• Ensure the Supplier Folders are always up to date
• Obsolete all old/expired certifications and documentation
• Update Supplier audit registers
• Ensure that Supplier audits have been tallied, findings have been closed out with corrective action
• Ensure that alll newly approved suppliers have completed all SQA documentation in full before uploading to the database
• Escalate any incomplete or missing documentation/information to the QC Supervisor/Quality Manager
• Ensure all the relevant documentation has been completed
• Ensure that COAs are received for every batch of raw material received
• Ensure and enforce adherence to the RMQC Sampling plan
• Ensure aspetic sampling techniques are practiced where ingredients are concerned
• Inspection and Analysis of raw materials in accordance with established SOPs
• Accurate capturing of results
• Enforce Good Laboratory Practices
• Ensure timeous calibration and daily verification of equipment used for raw material analysis
• Enforce proper housekeeping in the lab and raw materials receiving areas
• Ensure adherence to the source and treated water sampling plan
• Analysis of source and treated water samples in accordance with established SOPs
• Accurate capturing of results
• Escalation of any outages on any testing parameters to the QC Supervisor/Quality Manager

Raw Materials Receiving

Raw Materials Quality Control

Water and Effluent Analysis

Supplier Non Conformance Handling

• Implementing rejection protocols for any raw materials that fails critical testing parameters
• Escalating Supplier NCs following the Supplier NC Procedure
• Completion of the Supplier NC Register
• Follow through for corrective action and close out of NCs
• Ensuring that Supplier NC records are completed in full and signed off by both parties
• Uploading of SNCs to the data baseEnsuring that the supplier NC folders are always up to date
• Monitoring and Evaluating Supplier NC trends
• Updating the Quality Manager weekly on Supplier NCs
• Enforces Food Safety requirements with regards to raw material control
• Internal auditing – monthly GMP audits

Food Safety

Religious Certification Compliances

• Ensure that all approved ingredients have an updated halaal and kosher certification
• Update and maintain a raw materials and final product list to be used for halaal and kosher certification
• Facilitate halaal and kosher certification inspections and audits with relevant religious bodies
• Timeous close out of any findings from audits

Allergen Management

• Enforces the Allergen Management PRP
• Adherence to Standards: Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
• Enforcement: Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times to guarantee a secure work environment.
• Personal Hygiene: Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization’s code of conduct.
• Contamination Control: Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and implement control measures to prevent it.
• Health and Safety Measures: Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards. Follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents.
• Knowledge and Compliance: Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices).
• Training: Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety.
• Housekeeping: Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness within the work environment.
• Responsible to ensure housekeeping is performed and ensure that all products and activities are stored and are executed within the demarcated areas according to the housekeeping policy (green red and yellow areas)
• Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes and procedures • Maintains expected performance standards
• While Job Descriptions are written up for the purpose of a basic outline of the work and responsibilities associated with the Job, the Company encourages and expects all employees from time to time, to assist with work that may not be a direct part of their job description
• Near Misses

Adherence to the Quality, Food Safety, Health, Safety and Environmental Standards

General

Qualifications and Experience

• Grade 12 / Matric / MIN National Diploma in Food Technology/Analytical Chemistry or related field
• Upto 3 years’ experience (Operational Execution) FMCG
• Basic MS Excel; MS Word; E Mail

Key Qualities

Communication

Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks

Problem Solving

• Proactive identification of problems that are concrete and procedural, troubleshoot and apply solutions in line with guidelines provided or elevate more complex problems to superiors, providing information required to solve problems.

Relationships Maintained

• Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation

Behavioural Competencies

Verbal Communication

• Able to communicate verbally in a logical manner.
• Takes the intended audience to account when communicating verbal information.
• Makes use of appropriate business language in verbal communication.
• Includes all relevant information in verbal arguments.
• Demonstrates proficiency of language in verbal communication.
• Interprets complex information to expresses own viewpoint in verbal communication.
• Concludes verbal arguments by making reference to relevant facts

Decision Making

• Organises information to make it easier to analyse or see trends.
• Anticipates consequences and formulates alternatives.
• Establishes clear decision criteria for making informed choices.
• Seeks relevant information to better understand situations and problems.
• Conducts appropriate analysis; neither makes snap decisions or over-analyses.
• Sees relationships between various facts, figures or other information.

Continuous Improvement

• Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved
• Seeks out sources of information, including trade associations, “best practice” companies, customers, peers, subordinates, etc.
• Finds ways to fast-adapt improvement ideas to work processes
• Proactively seeks out resources, alliances, etc., needed to quickly introduce improvements

Collaboration

• Helps others with their work.
• Meets commitments to team members or others in the organisation.
• Actively contributes to team discussions and the accomplishment of team work plans.
• Shares expertise and resources to help others address their needs.
• Seeks to include all those who can contribute to the most successful outcome and those who have a stake in the results.
• Actively keeps all stakeholders informed.
• Attempts to reinvigorate team processes when progress is lagging: stays engaged even when not in full agreement with the team’s direction.

Accountability

• Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals: takes necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track and prepares a roadmap for success.
• Ensures that all who need to know, are clear about the plan.
• Takes full responsibility for own actions and outcomes, including mistakes.
• Always acts in the company’s best interest, regardless of whether it is difficult or unpopular.
• Ensures others are on track for achieving their goals.