Manufacturing Chemistry jobs

Overview :

Routine laboratory testing of various product matrices and the interpretation, recording and reporting of results

Contributing and adherence to the food safety and laboratory systems

General maintenance and housekeeping of the laboratories

General maintenance and verification of laboratory equipment

Responsible for internal audits

Responsibilities:

• Planning of daily, weekly and monthly tasks
• Stock-take and order consolidation
• Participating and coordinating in PT scheme, Inter and Intra lab testing results
• Ensure that records are maintained and completed accurately
• Ensure all equipment is verified
• Contributing and adherence to the Site safety/food safety systems and laboratory systems,
• and conducting of internal audits.
• Testing of various product matrices. Micro, Chemical and Packaging
• Counting and interpreting of results
• Reporting of results daily, weekly and monthly.
• Raise and Follow-up of Non Conformances, and problem solving by root cause analysis.
• ADHOC tasks
• Housekeeping and cleaning of area of responsibility
• Time to time sampling of various product matrices

Qualifications:

• National Diploma / Diploma in Food Technology, Analytical Chemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Food Science or a related scientific discipline.
• Sound knowledge of GMP, AIB, HACCP, BRC, FOOD SAFETY, SANS 17025
• Safety Protocols and Procedures
• Willingness to form part of the Safety/ Food safety Team and foster Safety/ Food Safety culture in the department
• Quality awareness
• Root Cause Analysis
• Microbiological testing
• Chemical analysis