QA Assistant
QA Assistant
Position: QA Assistant
Hours of work: 38 hours per week (Full time)
Days of work: Monday – Friday, some weekend and public holiday work may be required.
Start and finish time: As needed between the hours of 6:00 – 18:00
Pay Rate: Negotiable depending on the level of experience
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Record keeping and Document Control
- Daily factory walk-throughs to monitor and control GMP and Hygiene.
- Monthly GMP audits and Bucket audits
- Data entry and trending of data
- Issuing Non-Conformance Reports as required
- Participation in organoleptic analysis
- Maintaining and assessing retention samples
- Environmental swabbing per the schedule and collecting air and water samples
- Collecting products for micro testing and submission of all samples to the laboratory
- Assisting in maintaining the Approved Supplier Program
- Conducting risk assessments
- Training production staff
- Developing Policies & Procedures and supporting/maintaining the Food Safety Program
- Creating SOPs for machinery and Product specifications
- Assisting in monitoring and investigating customer complaints
- Conducting Traceability exercises
- Glass and Hard Plastic audits
- Internal audits
- Conducting Mock Recall, food defence and continuity exercises
- Calibration of thermometers and other equipment
- Maintaining chemical registers and SDS
- Other duties within reason as directed by the QA Manager
Qualifications:
- HACCP would be advantageous
- Internal Auditing or any other quality or food safety certificates would be advantageous
Skills and Experience:
- Experience within a Quality Assurance role would be advantageous
- Food handling experience
- Good communication skills
- Ability to work within a team and independently with good time management
- Ability to analyse and problem solve
- Good computer skills and written communication skills
- Strong attention to detail
- Ability to follow written and verbal work instructions
Employer questions
Your application will include the following questions:
- How many years of experience do you have as a Quality Assurance Assistant?