About the role
- Routine laboratory testing of various product matrices and the interpretation, recording and reporting of results
- Contributing and adherence to the food safety and laboratory systems
- General maintenance and housekeeping of the laboratories
- General maintenance and verification of laboratory equipment
- Responsible for internal audits
What you'll do
- Planning of daily, weekly and monthly tasks
- Stock-take and order consolidation
- Participating and coordinating in PT scheme, Inter and Intra lab testing results
- Ensure that records are maintained and completed accurately
- Ensure all equipment is verified
- Contributing and adherence to the Site safety/food safety systems and laboratory systems and conducting of internal audits.
- Testing of various product matrices. Micro, Chemical and Packaging
- Counting and interpreting of results
- Reporting of results daily, weekly and monthly.
- Raise and Follow-up of Non-Conformances, and problem solving by root cause analysis.
- ADHOC tasks
- Housekeeping and cleaning of area of responsibility
- Time to time sampling of various product matrices
What you'll bring
- Diploma/ Degree in the Food Technology/ Biotechnology/ Biochemistry
- Team player
- Sound knowledge of GMP, AIB, HACCP, BRC, FOOD SAFETY, SANS 17025
- Safety Protocols and Procedures
- Willingness to form part of the Safety/ Food safety Team and foster Safety/ Food Safety culture in the department
- Quality awareness
- Sensory analysis
Required skills
GMPHACCPBRCFOOD SAFETYSANS 17025Root Cause AnalysisInternal AuditingMicrobial TestingChemical TestingTeamworkProblem Solving