Quality Assurance Supervisor

DEPARTMENT: QUALITY ASSURANCE

REPORTS TO: QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER

Qualifications and experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science Technology, or any science related course from a recognized university.
• At least two (2) years of proven experience in leading Quality Assurance strategies and teams in a highly commercial food processing environment.

General description

• The Quality Assurance Supervisor will be responsible for monitoring all meat and meat products attributes to assure product quality and safety at targeted levels of the customer product specifications.
• S/he will assure food safety, regulatory and business compliance, while also assuring compliance with all established meat product and food handling and safety procedures.
• The Quality Assurance Supervisor will ensure that all required checks and tests are performed within the production area as prescribed within laid down company policies.
• S/he will ensure that meat is safe from contamination and that the process it goes though follows quality assurance regulations.

Roles and Responsibilities

• To monitor and record humidity and temperature of all chillers and freezers (Critical Control Points) at stated intervals in the establishment and report deviations immediately.
• To inspect all carcasses (100%) to ensure they meet the required quality & safety standards (no hair, fecal matter, abscesses, plucks and skin on the carcasses etc.).
• To verify continuous cleaning of entire slaughterhouse as well as before, during and after the operations.
• To ensure all personnel in the production area appropriately wear clean PPEs (dustcoat, overall, caps, helmets, gumboots and aprons) at all times.
• To monitor and record handwashing by all operatives in the slaughterhouse at stated time intervals.
• Monitor that all insectocutors are working properly during operation and report any abnormality.
• Ensure carcasses in chillers and freezers are stamped as required by the destined Countries.
• To verify continuous cleaning of all chillers and freezers as well as before, during and after start of operations.
• To ensure all sterilizers are switched on and have attained the required temperature and switched off after operations.
• To coordinate with operations supervisors so as to ensure high hygiene is adhered to during slaughter, loading and offloading of carcasses in and out of the chillers and freezers.
• Ensure Halal Principles are adhered to.
• To escalate critical issues related to Quality, Food safety, Fraud, Threat & legality violation to the Quality Assurance Manager.

Skills Required

• The ability to make considered decisions and to communicate them effectively.
• Excellent technical skills.
• Good numerical skills and an understanding of statistics.
• Leadership ability.
• Planning and organization skills.
• Interpersonal skills.
• Problem-solving skills.
• Teamworking skills.
• IT skills.