Quality Assurance Supervisor

Ensuring agreed standards within Quality Management Systems are maintained on a daily basis

Quality Manager

Company: Irish Dog Foods
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Salary: €36,605
Hours of work: 39
Location: Naas Industrial Estate, Naas, Co Kildare. W91 DRX5

• Utilise experience, skills & training to manage issues which may impact food safety, quality & or legality for all areas of responsibility
• Develop & implement visual, physical, functional or other appropriate measures & tests of quality
• Ensure implementation & maintenance of the Food Safety & Quality Management System for all areas of responsibility
• Analyse & report upon the results of quality control tests to ensure that production remains within specification
• Daily supervision of on-line QMS system checks and procedures conducted by operations team
• Examine current operating procedures to determine how quality may be improved
• Daily completion of the check-sheet
• Ensure completion & logging of all CCP & PC checks by operations & appropriately addressing any out of limits/parameters. Verification of CCP/PC checks
• Microbiological sampling/booking & the reserving of bulk samples
• Monitoring of equipment calibration schedule
• Customer complaint investigation & feedback provided on request
• Conduct shelf-life testing/nutritional testing sampling to schedule
• Preparation, completion & sealing of export loads as requested
• Consider the impact of legislation upon specification requirements & incorporate into controls
• Examine current operating procedures to ensure the process & the product meet regulatory standards & implement changes necessary to ensure compliance
• Non-conformance reporting & corrective action implementation
• On the floor personal hygiene training, QC skills training for operators, relevant food safety & CCP/PC training for relevant operators as requested
• Responsible for monitoring and maintaining personal hygiene standards including correct wearing of PPE
• Monitor product date coding for compliance to prescribed shelf-life and customer specific shelf life into depot
• Conduct internal audits as requested
• Ensure full product traceability is maintained at all stages of the process & support team in all mass balance/traceability challenges conducted
• Support Quality Manager in close out of any non-conformances & escalate any concern to the manager where food safety, quality or legality concern is not brought under control to your satisfaction
• Quantity Control and correct labelling monitored for all areas of responsibility
• Attend all meetings as requested by the Quality Manager & engage positively. Provide all requested information in preparation for such meetings to the Quality Manager
• Complete & follow-up of all records:
• Non-Conformance Log & Check Sheet, Foreign body/Fabrication Audits, GMP Audits, PPE/Personal Hygiene rules audits, Hygiene/Cleaning checks, Glass/Perspex audit & associated snag list, Internal verification of scales & thermometers, Monthly CCP/PC Verification

• Degree in a Food related discipline and ideally 1 year QA/QC experience in FMCG
• Self-motivated team player with strong communication (verbal & written), IT, problem-solving, & decision-making skills, able to work independently