Technical and Quality Manager (Yamane, Saint-Louis)

Our client operates in the agri-food sector, and specialiases in the production and export of vegetables.

Summary

Health & Safety (Level 1)

• Ensure all operators have completed and understood essential mandatory training and/or safe working procedures and comply with company policy on maintenance/cleaning, recording and data
• Ensure the safe use and operation of equipment, including daily checks and completion of calibrations, maintaining of equipment in good working order etc.
• Report any incidents, near misses and safety conversations in a timely manner
• Prevention of theft of machinery, equipment and other assets
• Comply with the company Lone Working Procedure
• On-going work with the team towards ‘World Class’s Health & Safety
• Make sure to give at least 2 reports by week whatever good or bad.

Technical operation

• Responsible for all documents, procedures and policies for the audits in the packhouse.
• Training and assist peoples for all procedures, costumes quality-specifications, risk assessments and food safety.
• Maintain, develop and implement all systems, policies and procedures relating to the company technical function including quality, safety, environment and health and safety, ensuring fit for purpose.
• Overseeing the farm’s technical function, supporting the implementation and maintenance of the Technical, Quality and HSE Standards across the site.
• Lead quality and hygiene team
• Ensure monitoring of GMP and CAYG practices
• Do daily and annual quality report for all product sender
• Ensure all product mock recall test is done
• Do traceability test for all products
• Control and order for labels used for each product.
• Update the visitor’s questionnaire and complete workers questionnaire book
• Update all packhouse procedure and record sheets
• Provide necessary support for all audits and visits and ensure compliance against recognised standards
• Ensure relevant HACCP/TACCP inclus VACCP are controlled, and Trainer people to understanding the critical points.
• Training people for HACCP and control process
• Monitoring people for product segregation.
• Ensuring adequate communication of issues and concerns between all teams as necessary
• Co-ordinate collection of samples to schedule.
• New procedure and check sheets to be implemented for new lines and process in the packhouse extension
• Take and collect all microbiology and pesticide samples request by monthly
• Booking for samples and scales calibration.
• Pesticide usage control and residue analysis
• Create a plan for baits boxes.
• Focus on cleaning stock items process (in and out)
• Order all cleaning stock materials use including PPE for Staff.
• Complete of critical daily records
• H&S
• Traceability control records
• Monitoring waste management
• Do all the product yield by plot
• Mass balance all the product between harvest, packing and export (harvest and seal)
• Monitoring for all chemical Safety data sheet
• Do laundry audit by weekly and complete daily check sheet
• Control hygiene tanks and source of water use for product
• ensure that chlorine and yard UV monitoring is recorded accurately, and any discrepancies reported at the direction level
• ensure and continual checking that deep clean is effective especially on radish wash line and new flag trimming

Innovation & Development

• Provide support for new and/or less experienced operators
• Assist in the design and implementation of new installations and infrastructure as required
• Innovate and develop equipment and ways of working
• Actively engage with new technologies and systems
• Develop technical training Materials and develop staffs to enhance technical know-how
• Support the implementation of Operations Excellence addressing inefficiency link to Quality loss

Record Keeping

• Effective and efficient planning of work
• Timely, accurate and organised recording of scheduled operations
• Document non-conformances, corrective actions and their follow up
• Archive all records to required standards and time periods
• Controlled accounts of material usage and waste

Other responsibilities

• Timely reporting of faults/issues that require input and assistance from engineering team, external contractors or specialists.
• Support an understanding and philosophy amongst staff in achievement of high standards of workmanship, hygiene and tidiness
• Ensuring adequate co-ordination and co-operation between departments
• Engage in LEAN implementation
• Assistance with any other operations required during peak periods
• To carry out any other reasonable requests made by a member of WAF Management Team

Liaison with

• Engineering manager
• Packhouse manager
• Compliance manager
• Other Managers of the business
• Sand field Technical Manager, upper moor QA team and may farms QA team