Career Opportunities: Quality Specialist - Technical (1015995) Requisition ID 1015995 - Posted - New Zealand - Full-time - Commercial
We're looking for a Quality Specialist (Technical) to join our team here in Aotearoa reporting to our Head of Product Innovation & Process Technology. You'll take accountability for managing and delivering a component of the Product life cycle process, while being responsible for product quality standards.
About the Role | Mo te Turanga
You will be responsible for:
Setting the product quality processes, standards and strategies to enable kitchen to factory scaling up through subject matter expertise in process technology.
Planning, attending and contributing to factory trials to deliver a successful manufacturing process.
Running micro and shelf life trials, and delivering products that meet the required shelf life requirements.
Creation, agreement and maintenance of Quality Attribute Sheets (QAS).
Attending first productions and approving/rejecting production against the final QAS and specification.
Reviewing and approving all artwork and labelling checks.
Investigating all quality/process related customer product complaints, identifying trends and driving root cause analysis and preventative actions.
Ongoing product quality maintenance of all products in the Own Brand portfolio.
Analysing, monitoring and collating key information to make informed decisions around quality, compliance and emerging trends.
Accountability for the product safety of all Own brand products in the portfolio.
Engaging with suppliers, maintaining and building strong and professional relationships, and building products/processes that contribute to mutual success.
Adhering to the NPD process for product development, completing all relevant documentation, and ensuring on-time delivery of the agreed NPD plan, processes and product.
Keeping up to date with industry quality trends, standards, processes and techniques.
Delivering products within determined categories that are safe, meet regulatory requirements, Woolworths Policies and Standards and customer quality expectations.
To succeed in this role, you will need to have in-depth working knowledge and strong understanding of product, ingredients and cost makeup of products. A good understanding of Quality maintenance, sensory evaluation and organoleptic skills and lexicon is essential. If you strive to always do the right thing for customers, team, our communities, and our business, then we ought to connect.
To be successful in this position, you will have a Tertiary Food Science qualification, minimum 3 Year Diploma, degree or similar in food industry, Food Nutrition or related industry, science, business etc, coupled with a minimum of 5 years experience in Process Technology or experience in a relevant discipline within a complex/matrix environment.
Working with Woolworths NZ | Me mahi tahi tatou ki Woolworths NZ
Our purpose is to make Kiwis' lives a little better every day. We're friendly, down-to-earth, and energetic - we work hard but we have a great time doing it, and we love what we do. There is plenty of scope for new ideas, lots of room for you to add value, and importantly, you'll be working with a business that touches the lives of three million New Zealanders a week.
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