At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure quality of award-winning pet products through testing and monitoring.
- Company: Join a pioneering pet nutrition company with a passion for fresher ingredients.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive pay, flexible hours, and unique perks like Pawrental leave.
- Other info: Dynamic team environment with opportunities for personal and professional growth.
- Why this job: Make a real impact in the booming pet industry while growing your career.
- Qualifications: Experience in food safety and quality assurance is a plus.
The predicted salary is between 19.8 - 24.2 $ per hour.
We are excited to be looking for an enthusiastic QA Technician to join our dynamic team at our busy Yatala Manufacturing site for a period of 5 months to cover staff holidays. This role is responsible for ensuring timely and effective implementation of our policies, procedures, and activities involved in assuring the quality of our award-winning manufactured products.
Our Yatala site is a 'wet' manufacturing site where we process raw meat, so you must be comfortable working in animal protein.
Key Responsibilities:
- Quality Testing and Monitoring
- Conduct routine and non-routine product quality tests in keeping with GFSI Standards and HACCP;
- Conduct visual inspection, monitoring product colour, consistency and aesthetics;
- Perform routine micro monitoring program for finished product;
- Sampling, testing approving and labelling raw materials, packaging and promotional materials;
- Sampling and testing in-process product and finished goods;
- Collecting and sending samples to external labs for testing as required;
- Performing in-house environmental micro testing, maintaining databases and identifying trends;
- Calibrating and maintaining lab equipment.
- Reporting, Auditing and Investigating
- Preparation of routine and non-routine reports;
- Assist with investigations of customer complaints;
- Manage the routine micro monitoring program for finished product;
- Assist/coordinate training relating to food safety, and QA;
- Assist with internal and external food safety audits;
- Maintain and improve systems, procedures and record keeping systems.
- Cleaning and Hygiene
- Monitor and verify cleaning and sanitation effectiveness across production zones;
- Conduct hygiene audits and environmental swabbing;
- Work closely with the hygiene team to ensure compliance with GMP and allergen control standards;
- Support continuous improvement in hygiene practices and site cleanliness;
- Ensure hygiene-related non-conformances are addressed and closed out promptly.
About you:
To be considered for this role we would love it if you had:
- Food/Science/Microbiology/Chemistry or Laboratory qualifications;
- Knowledge of GMP/HACCP;
- 2 years + experience in a food or FMCG manufacturing environment;
- Technical understanding of Quality and Food Safety including Root Cause Analysis;
- Intermediate computer literacy – Excel, Word, Outlook;
- Excellent verbal and written skills;
- A curious nature with high decision-making skills, eye for quality and courage to stand alone;
- Drive to make a difference through influencing others.
We’re dedicated to fostering authentic partnerships, encouraging real ambition, and providing real career opportunities for our employees to make a difference.
If you're ready to unleash your potential and make a real difference in the booming pet industry, then we want to hear from you!
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Diversity’s not a buzzword here, it’s in our DNA. Diverse perspectives shape our culture and make our work better.
QA Technician employer: Real Pet Food Company
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