Herties: Quality and Food Safety Intern

Herties: Quality and Food Safety Intern

Herties is calling on qualified individuals to apply for Quality and Food Safety Internship Programme for a period of 9 months.

Position: Quality and Food Safety Intern

Stipend: R9 000 per month

Department: Quality Assurance

Contract Duration: Provisionally May 2025 – 30 January 2026 (9 months) Fixed term contract

Herties is thrilled to unveil an opportunity for a Quality and Food Safety Intern at our Head Office Production Facility. Below is a detailed overview of the role and its responsibilities.

Time Requirements:
Alternate every 3 weeks between the three:

• Week 1 – Night shift 17:00 – 03:00 (10)
• Week 2 – Day shift 07:00 – 17:00 (10)
• Week 3 – Lab (Day Shift) 07:00 – 17:00 (10)

Job Description:

Day Shift:

• On-line Quality Control. PRP checklists.
• GMP inspections.
• Sampling Raw materials for analysis.
• Approve bottles and caps (labels).
• Chemical verifications.
• CIP cleaning verification.
• Cleaning verification.
• Line startup verification.
• Manage retention sample library.
• Scale, thermometer and measuring equipment verification.
• Sampling of outsourced products and verifying the product at receiving.
• COA management at receiving.
• QC of received products.
• Maintenance job card verification.
• Verify suitable waste management and cleaning and personal hygiene
  standards.
• Manage pest sighting log and inspection of pest control units.
• Stock management to enforce FIFO principles.
• Verify production sheets with production and report on the floor issues to your
  line manager.
• Verify the mixing process.
• Verify that the COC’s and barcodes are correctly captured.
• Basic training to employees on policies/preservatives and basic food safety

Night Shift:

• On-line Quality Control. PRP checklists.
• GMP inspections.
• Sampling Raw materials for analysis.
• Approve bottles and caps (labels).
• Chemical verifications.
• CIP cleaning verification.
• Production cleaning verification.
• Line startup verification.
• Manage retention sample library.
• Scale, thermometer and measuring equipment verification.
• Sampling of outsourced products and verifying the product at receiving.
• COA management at receiving.
• QC of received products.
• Maintenance job card verification.
• Verify suitable waste management and cleaning and personal hygiene standards.
• Manage pest sighting log and inspection of pest control units.
• Stock management to enforce FIFO principles.
• Verify production sheets with production and report on the floor issues to your line manager.
• Verify the mixing process.
• Verify that the COC’s and barcodes are correctly captured.
• Basic training to employees on policies/preservatives and basic food safety.

Laboratory:

• Make up raw material batches and approve raw materials for mixing.
• Issue recipes to the mixing department.
• Verify production sheets with production and mixing manager.
• Test final mixes and approve for filling.
• Investigate complaints.
• Test CIP water.
• ATP swabbing.
• Sampling for microbiological and chemical verification.
• Testing of outsourced products

Qualification: Btech/BSc Food Science or Food Technology or Consumer Science

How To Apply

Should you be interested, please forward your detailed and updated CV by no later than close of business on 17 April 2025 to:
adele@henties.co.za
mathew@cereus.co.za