Food Industry Engineer-QA Specialist

Ideal Candidate

Within an IFS Food certified quality and food safety management system, you ensure end-to-end quality control (reception–process–packaging–finished product) and manage self-control activities in the laboratory, ensuring, throughout the operational chain, compliance with specifications, traceability, management of non-conformities (NC) and corrective/preventive actions (CAPA), as well as maintaining auditable records.

Requirements

• Studies: Food Industry Engineer (or similar).
• Minimum 2 years in the food industry (QA/QC, production and/or laboratory).
• Experience working in an audited and certified food safety management system (IFS Food, BRCGS, FSSC 22000/ISO 22000) and participation in internal audits; familiarity with IFS Food requirements is an advantage.
• Excel/ERP: skills applied for reporting, records and traceability (QA workflows).

Job Description

responsibility

• Raw material/packaging reception: visual and quantitative inspections, sensory/organoleptic evaluations, integrity, lotting and documentary compliance; decisions to accept, block (hold) or segregate (quarantine) batches, according to specifications and acceptance criteria.
• Flow and packaging control: labeling compliance (TDV, origin, batch, weight, barcode) and packaging integrity/tightness; monitoring of MAP parameters and routine calibration/metrological verification checks for control equipment (e.g. metal detectors, belt scales).
• Production/warehouse monitoring: temperature/humidity; verification of compliance with the sanitation plan and related records.
• Internal laboratory (self-control): sampling (reception/flow/finished product), management of counter-samples and registers; performing analyses according to plan (e.g.: humidity, aw, salt content, sanitation/allergens), including sending samples and monitoring results received from external laboratories.
• QA documentation: development and periodic reviews of technical specifications and nutritional information/labeling; preparation of receipt reports and issuance of communications/notifications to the Procurement Department.
• IFS Food: participation in internal audits and maintaining system compliance; document/record control, NC/CAPA management, traceability checks and withdrawal/recall exercises.

We offer a dynamic and challenging work environment, professional development opportunities and an attractive salary package.The work schedule is Monday to Friday 8 hours a day. If you are passionate about food quality and have the skills necessary to ensure compliance with the highest standards, we invite you to apply for the position of Food Industry Engineer – QA Specialist (Production & Laboratory).

Company Description

Since its founding in 1994, Orlando’s has been bringing authentic and delicious flavors from around the world to consumers. Created from the passion of its shareholders to discover and offer the best products from around the world, the company has built its achievements on a solid foundation of core values ​​that inspire integrity, commitment to customers and the desire to be the best in everything they do…and they have succeeded! Today, Orlando’s is the market leader in dried fruits and one of the most important operators in the oilseed products sector.

The objective of Orlando’s is the processing, packaging and marketing of dried and candied fruit products, oilseed products, spices, ingredients for pastry and confectionery in the premium segment. The ingredients of Orlando’s success are: investments made in processing and packaging technologies, innovative market strategies, attention to customer needs and excellent product quality.

Orlando’s traditional business model is based on strategic objectives achieved with seriousness and dedication, resulting in the continuous diversification of the product range. The company’s main concern is innovation, being oriented towards the development of a modern business strategy. For this, Orlando’s allocates significant resources in research and innovation to offer exceptional products to consumers and uses reliable technologies and modern food packaging and processing lines, technologies specific to each category of products sold.

Orlando’s team of professionals completes and ensures the evolution towards the company’s performance through excellence and by pursuing a common goal: to exceed customers’ expectations every time they want to eat something healthy and full of flavor. They are a united team that works with passion, in a pleasant environment and constantly builds stories about original and authentic flavors.

We’ve been waiting for you to write Orlando’s stories together!