Food Safety & Quality Assurance QA Manager, Rajkot

Food Safety \& Quality Assurance QA Manager

Location

Rajkot, Gujarat, India

Employment Type

Full-Time

Work Type

On-Site

Experience

Minimum 3 Years

Department

Quality Assurance / Quality Control / Food Safety

Key Responsibilities

Food Safety \& Quality Assurance

• Ensure all products meet Aiva's established food safety and quality standards.
• Inspect incoming raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, finished products, and outgoing shipments.
• Monitor quality throughout production, processing, packing, storage, and dispatch.
• Identify quality issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive actions.
• Maintain QA/QC records, inspection reports, product specifications, and supporting documentation.
• Monitor hygiene, sanitation, housekeeping, pest control, and food-handling practices.
• Support compliance with applicable food safety regulations, customer requirements, and export quality standards.
• Coordinate product sampling and laboratory testing.
• Manage non-conforming products and materials.

Product Quality:-

• Establish and monitor quality specifications for Dals, Spices, Poha, Oils, Snacks, Flours, and other packaged food products.
• Check appearance, color, texture, aroma, taste, moisture, foreign material, contamination, and other applicable quality parameters.
• Ensure consistency between production batches.
• Approve or reject products based on established quality specifications.
• Work with production teams to reduce defects, rework, wastage, and customer complaints.

Packaging \& Case Quality:-

• Inspect pouches, bags, labels, printed packaging, cartons/cases, sealing, coding, and finished packaging.
• Verify product name, SKU, weight, lot/batch information, manufacturing details, expiry/best-before information, barcodes, and other required labeling.
• Ensure packaging materials meet approved specifications.
• Monitor sealing integrity, package appearance, carton strength, and finished-case quality.
• Prevent incorrect packaging, labeling, and product mix-ups before dispatch.

Vendor \& Order Coordination:-

• Coordinate with raw-material and packaging vendors regarding quality requirements.
• Coordinate purchase/order status with internal teams and vendors.
• Track open orders, expected delivery dates, shortages, rejections, replacements, and pending items.
• Follow up on quality-related vendor issues and corrective actions.

Reporting \& Excel:-

• Maintain and analyze quality and operational data.
• Prepare QA/QC reports and management reports.
• Use Microsoft Excel for data analysis and reporting.
• Required Excel skills include Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP, formulas, sorting, filtering, and data validation.

Required Qualifications \& Experience:-

• Minimum 3 years of experience in Food Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Food Inspection, or a related field.
• Experience in a food manufacturing or food processing facility is strongly preferred.
• Experience with pulses/dals, spices, grains, flours, snacks, edible oils, or packaged food products is highly desirable.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to identify product and packaging defects.
• Good understanding of food safety, hygiene, sanitation, quality control, and documentation.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Key Skills:-

Food Safety \| Quality Assurance \| Quality Control \| Food Inspection \| HACCP \| GMP \| GHP \| CAPA \| Root Cause Analysis \| Raw Material Inspection \| Finished Product Inspection \| Packaging Quality \| Vendor Quality \| Food Manufacturing \| Food Processing \| QA Documentation \| Laboratory Testing \| Microsoft Excel \| Pivot Tables \| VLOOKUP \| XLOOKUP

Seniority Level

- Mid-Senior Level

Industry

- Food \& Beverage / Food Manufacturing / Packaged Food

Function

- Quality Assurance / Quality Control / Food Safety

Pay

₹180,000.00 - ₹300,000.00 per year

Work Location

In person