* Experience Years: 3-5 Years of Experience
* Employee Type: Regular
About the Opportunity
This role is key in ensuring that all products leaving our packing site are compliant with all food safety, legal, and customer requirements through adherence to procedures. This position requires close collaboration with our quality, production, and warehouse supervisors and managers to maintain a continuous flow of information and support the development and documentation of quality, environmental, and other management procedures.
Responsibilities
* Monitor and verify in-process controls to ensure adherence to specifications and quality standards.
* Provide support in drafting, modifying, and implementing company policies and procedures ensuring compliance with customer, regulatory, and certification requirements (e.g., BRC, HACCP, GMP).
* Conduct product traceability and recall tests, ensuring robust systems are maintained.
* Lead investigations into non-conformances and drive corrective and preventative actions.
* Support site preparation for internal, customer, and third-party audits and fully support during audits and in closing any non-conformances.
* Identify opportunities for continuous improvement in operational quality processes.
* Assist in identifying training requirements for the business to ensure compliance with required standards.
* Liaise with Technical, Sales, and Procurement teams as required.
* Other ad hoc duties as required.
Candidate Profile
* Evidence of extensive experience working in a comparable role, preferably within the soft fruit industry.
* Strong appreciation of our business needs and resourcefulness in coming up with solutions to their challenges.
* Ability to relate to key client personnel in a professional and credible fashion.
* Well-developed personal and written communication skills, including the ability to communicate with a wide range of employees.
* Ability to work as part of a team with colleagues across professional, operational, and cultural boundaries.
* Proactive approach.
* Able to use and interpret data to make decisions and recommend improvements.
* Good time management and organisational skills with the ability to handle a number of tasks at once and meet deadlines as required.
* Good IT skills including experience with Word and Excel.
About Driscolls
Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful, and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion, and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world.
Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high-quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.
Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries.
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