Quality Assurance Officer

• Somersby location

• Full Time role

• A long-term rewarding opportunity with a opportunity for career progression

Our Company:

The Cordina Group is highly awarded and respected within the food industry, Cordina has built a reputation around partnership, stability, innovation, trust, agility and most importantly, always thinking differently.

Cordina is all about creating bespoke solutions designed purposefully around our customers’ needs and their brands – in fact, there have now been four generations of Cordina putting the customers brand first. It’s the service we offer that’s the difference. Our customers can have the whole NPD solution done for them or work in collaboration to bring their new product to life!

Our mission is to understand our customer and solve their problems by treating customer brands as our own. With 80 years of experience, Cordina continue to bring new concepts to the market and assist our customers to create their own unique point of difference.

Our state-of-the-art new hatchery

About the role:

An excellent opportunity currently exists for a QA Officer to join the Cordina hatchery team at Somersby. The incumbent will be required to work on day shift.

Responsibilities of this position include:

Reporting to the Hatchery Manager, the responsibilities of the position include, but are not limited to the following:

• Monitor performance of hygiene, GMP, food safety and plant standards on a continuous basis and provide corrective feedback where required.

• Verify production output meets Specifications. Egg/Chick quality

• Confirm all raw ingredient materials and packaging materials against specifications.?

• Complete QA testing. Egg grading, weight loss, incubation profile, chick quality and breakout

• Collect and record data according to HACCP and Quality System

• Conduct quality audits in a methodical and detailed manner to verify that the organizations' food safety program is complied with at all times animal welfare?

• Assisting in managing customer complaints including investigation

• Ensure internal audit follow-ups to non-conformances and assist with action plans as required

• Biosecurity management

• Egg management and incubation

• Hatchery operations and chick quality

• Sanitation and hygiene

• Data analysis, record keeping and traceability

• Compliance, audits and training

• Animal welfare

• Vaccination

To be successful in this position you must possess the following:

• Tertiary qualifications in quality management or similar is preferred.

• Previous poultry or hatchery experience preferred

• Internal Audit experience

• Self-Motivated and a Quick Learner

• Team Player, with the ability to work unsupervised

• Attention to detail

• Mature minded

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

• Advanced MS Office skills

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

If this sounds like the opportunity you have been waiting for then APPLY NOW and take the next positive step towards this great new role.