Quality Assurance Paid Internship
Background
Nerang Park Poultry is family owned and operator poultry processing factility that has been operating in the same area since 1950s.
All poultry supplied to Nerang Park Poultry comes from local RSPCA approved shed. The business is committed to SQF Food Safety and Food Quality modules and maintains these systems with a HACCP based quality assurance.
Intership Outcomes
Nerang Park Poultry Quality Assurance Department has had inters in the past. Previous intern full time work in the quality assurance department and within short time of graduating become the Quality Assurance Supervisor at Nerang Park Poultry. You will leave the internship with skills in quality assurance areas that can be applied to any food manufacturing facility or quality manufacturing role.
Inter will be given the operator to perform in process checks, daily and monthly audits with guidence and oversight from quality manager. Inter will have oppertunities to learn complaince standard that are required to adhere. Nerang Park Poultry is certified to one of the Global Food Safety Code. Guidenance through your intership will be give by Quality Manager or Supervisor.
Learning Outcomes
-Knewledge of Good Manufacturing Practise (everyday processes in place to ensure food manufacturers produce safety food for customers)
-Gain experience internal Audits
-Product Sample (shelf life samples, microbiological sampling, environmental swabbing)
-Process checks (Label checks, quality checks, weight checks)
-Verification of paperwork and how to build successful food safety and quality checks
Position Summary:
- Responsible for implementing Nerang Park Poultry’s quality assurance and food safety efforts.
- Maintain quality assurance standards, procedures and controls.
- Perform regular monitoring activities as directed by the Quality Manager & Supervisor. Such as monitoring raw material temperature, age, packaging, foreign contamination, weight and conformance.
- Review quality records to ensure deviations have been noted and rectified in a timely manner.
- Sampling of raw material, in-process and finished products.
- Work directly with processing to enforce requirements, GMP, and inspection activities as specified by in-house procedures, product specifications and regulatory agencies.
- Initiate corrective actions for process deficiencies.
- Liaise with cleaners for deviations in plant sanitation
- This position will includes projects directed by the Quality Manager
- Addition training around the quality assurance system and implementation by the Quality Manager
Report to Quality Manager
Key Relationships (Internal):
- Quality Manager & Supervisor
- Quality Assurance Officers
- Plant personnel including area leading hands and department supervisors
- Maintenance personnel
- Dispatch personnel (shipping/receiving)
- Plant trainer
- Health and Safety Supervisor
Experience/Requirements:
- Great attention to detail and problem solving capability
- Experience conducting quality control checks
- Ability to work independently
- Good communication skills
- Assets Knowledge of Good Manufacturing Process and HACCP
- Proven ability to work in a fast paced food manufacturing environment
Position
Partime/Full time Internship available