A SHEQ Assurance Officer is responsible for ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations, environmental regulations, and quality control.

Education & Skills:

• Grade 12, with National diploma in Food Science/Food Technology/Environmental Health or Science

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in food safety/quality in a food manufacturing or processing industry
• Minimum 1 year experience in the canning industry, knowledge of HACCP, regulatory requirements on Meat & Poultry products.
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Additional Key attributes:

• Good reporting skills.
• Knowledge of Health and safety at workplace.
• Must be able to implement procedures for control and maintenance of documents.
• Ability to quickly develop in-depth knowledge about applicable products and markets.
• Valid driver’s license essential

• Flexible working hours – Day/Night Shift
• Computer literate in MS office
• Excellent attitude

Responsibilities:

• Ensuring traceability of all paperwork, data, reports, and product
• Excellent leadership skills and must be able to manage a small team independently.

• Receive information of final product sampled and communicate it to Process Engineer for recon.
• Monitor the lead time and report to SHEQ Manager on late feedback.
• Ensure waste products have left processing areas at every end of production day.
• Ensure monitoring of bait station and activity of pest around the plant and complete pest log records
• Ensure incoming materials received conforms to African Deli quality standards and are from approved suppliers list.
• Monitor ablutions and changing rooms on cleanliness.

• Monitor and verify sanitary compliance before and during production.
• Monitoring of the process at the cutting, mixing, filling, retort, and packing areas
• Sampling of water, surface/equipment swabs and issue non-conformance where deviating from the set standards
• Report non-complying activities and record keeping.
• Verification of retort charts, printing and generating records
• Review and assist SHEQ Manager with annual calibration and actioning of customer complaints.
• Perform ad hoc tasks, projects and quality and safety issues as may be requested by SHEQ Manager

• Assist in other departments – Research & Development and Production
• Training of food handlers

Interested persons who meet the requirements outlined should apply by sending their CV to email address: recruitment@africandeli.com

ALL CV AND SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS MUST BE SENT IN AN EMAIL AS ONE PDF FILE ATTACHMENT. NO HAND-DELIVERED APPLICATIONS WILL BE ACCEPTED.