We've been proudly bringing joy to tables and smiles to faces with the delicious food we've been crafting for over 100 years.
A large part of our strong growth and success is because we're always looking for new ways to do things and thinking about how we can create a better, more sustainable future world together.
Our success as an industry leader in providing deliciously good food means we can continue to invest in our future as we work towards becoming Australia and New Zealand's first choice for poultry.
Your opportunity to join our team
The purpose of the Quality Assurance Officer role is to ensure that the Company’s quality standards are met during raw material receival, inspection, mixing / preparation, processing, chilling, storage, distribution and selling operations
THIS POSITION IS A ROSTERED POSITION - 08h00 - 04h30 / Monday to Friday / times may vary as business operations dictates
Responsibilities include
- Audit and verify the correct implementation of the plant HACCP Programme.
- Monitor raw material quality in terms of temperature, age, organoleptic quality, packaging integrity, foreign material contamination, microbiological quality, weight and conformance to company and supplier specifications.
- Monitor raw material storage.
- Monitor meat / mix preparation, temperature and conformance to product formulation.
- Monitor product forming and pickup to ensure conformance to product specification.
- Monitor cooked product deep muscle temperature to ensure food safety standards are achieved.
- Monitor finished product packaging and cartoning operations to ensure compliance to product specification.
- Monitor finished product storage and despatch operations in terms of temperature, hygiene and stock rotation.
- Monitor equipment performance in relation to product quality and initiate corrective action where necessary through processing plant management.
- Monitor critical quality and food safety control points and initiate corrective action where necessary.
- Monitor compliance to Food Security procedures.
- Provide a weekly summary of the plant HACCP programme on the QA CCP Log.
- Investigate customer complaints at processing plant level and recommend corrective action to Plant Management, National Quality Manager NZ.
You will bring to this role
- Tertiary qualifications preferably Food Science or equivalent OR relevant Food Processing Plant experience
- Knowledge of FMCG and HACCP
- High attention to detail
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good computer literacy
We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us. People who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering delicious food that’s… Always Good.
Inghams values diverse experiences. If your skills align with some but not all of the listed requirements, we encourage you to still apply and explore the opportunity to join our team.
