Food Safety & Quality Supervisor

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Why Dawn Farms?

We can offer an excellent opportunity to be part of a world-class team, equipping our teams with the knowledge and the necessary skills to achieve their full potential. Innovation is a key ingredient of our success in protecting our market position and keeping our competitive edge. To be truly innovative, we invest in recruiting and developing a highly skilled, ambitious and talented team.

Job Purpose

Dawn Farms is currently seeking for a Food Safety and Quality Assurance Supervisor to join our Food Safety and Quality Assurance Department to be based in our Head Offices in Naas, Co. Kildare. The FSQA Supervisor will be responsible for ensuring the effective operation of the Food Safety and Quality Management System through verification, validation and routine trouble-shooting, so as to ensure the production of food-safe products that meet specification. Contribute towards the development and implementation of these systems through procedures, skills development, training, problem solving, team working, and influencing people.

Positions: Full-Time, Permenant

Location: Naas, Co. Kildare, Ireland

Working Hours: Monday - Friday 8am - 5pm some flexibilty required

Role Responsibilities & Duties

• Ensure that product and food safety specifications are met by verifying the production and system checks and documentation, and supporting operations in decision-making in the day-to-day production of conforming product.
• Carry out the following quality checks in line with the FSQMS:
• Raw material and receiving checks.
• CCP verification.
• traceability checks as directed and within allocated timeframes.
• Keep alert for and highlight hazards, and always act to prevent any risks to product safety
• Conduct traceability exercises as required.
• Instigate non-conformance reports and drive investigation and corrective action when deviations are detected.
• Routine and project-based validation of production and pre-requisite processes
• Work with production management, QA, S&I, purchasing and other departments in setting standards, solving problems, and taking corrective action.
• Hygiene inspection audits and environmental monitoring.
• GMP audits as per audit schedule.
• Training for production teams and other staff in SOPs, Hygiene, Technical Policies and Procedures etc.
• Conduct environmental swabbing as required.
• Collection and logging of product samples for testing.
• Review and collation of results to ensure compliance, and communication of any non-conforming results or trends to relevant personnel.
• Provide regular quality performance reports to assist production management, QA management, purchasing etc. in addressing and eliminating non-conformances.
• Produce other reports as required e.g. risk assessments, analyses, investigations, KPIs, trending etc.
• Ensure that high standards are maintained with respect to procedures, reports and documentation control. Filing and archiving of quality records.
• Supporting requests from other departments e.g. Stock Releases, Stock Enquiries, POs etc
• Control of non-conforming product, including placing on hold, review and release as appropriate.
• Control and calibration of measuring devices e.g. probes, data loggers etc.
• Liaising with specialist contractors and service providers e.g. Pest Control, Calibration, Audit and Certification Bodies.
• Assisting with customer, regulatory and supplier visits and audits, including ensuring appropriate PPE is in place.

Key Knowledge & Experience

• Hands-on experience in driving compliance, quality and food safety, and day-to-day technical trouble-shooting in a fast-paced production environment.
• Experience in operating and continuously improving quality systems.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of food safety & quality standards e.g. BRC, Regulatory and Retailer Standards.
• Experience in working with customers, suppliers, regulatory bodies and audits desirable.
• Educated to Degree or Higher Level in a Scientific Food Discipline.

What we can offer you?

• Annual leave 22 days.
• Pension plan.
• Health insurance scheme.
• Subsidised canteen.
• Employee assistance programme - this programme offers expert wellbeing support 24 hours a day 365 days a year access to counselling, financial information, consumer information, life coaching, health information, autism support, parent coaching, International employee support, all free for you and your family.
• Wellness programme.
• Maternity/Paternity leave benefits.
• Training & Development, Career progression..
• Christmas Savings Scheme.
• Bike to work scheme

'Dawn Farm Foods Ltd. is an equal opprtunities employer'