Quality Coordinator

Description

Position Summary: Quality Coordinator for Caty Bakery, ensuring food safety, standardization of flavor/texture, and regulatory compliance in production processes. Key Highlights: 1. Quality assurance for bakery products. 2. Team leadership and training in good hygiene practices. 3. Production monitoring and compliance with sanitary regulations. At ***Caty Bakery***, a 100% Monterrey-based company offering the highest-quality cakes, the best flavor, and a tradition dating back to 1974 — where we strive daily to improve — we are seeking your talent as **QUALITY COORDINATOR!!** **Position Objective:** Ensure food safety, flavor/texture standardization, and regulatory compliance. This role combines deep technical expertise in food safety with leadership skills to manage teams and production processes. **Position Purpose:** To ensure food safety, standardization, and excellence across all products, supervising operations from raw material receipt through to final product. Ensures compliance with hygiene standards and recipes, maintaining customer satisfaction and competitiveness. **Job Responsibilities:** * Quality Assurance: Ensure final products meet company and industry standards. * Process Control: Supervise production stages, from raw material receipt to packaging and storage. * Audits: Conduct internal audits and manage corrective actions for quality deviations. * Team Leadership: Train and direct plant personnel in good hygiene and food handling practices. * Production Monitoring: Oversee daily bakery production operations, ensuring quality and food safety standards are maintained at every stage. * Verify that ingredients used are fresh, within their expiration dates, and stored appropriately. * Sanitary Regulatory Compliance: Ensure the bakery complies with sanitary regulations established by the Ministry of Health, conducting periodic inspections and verifications throughout production processes. * Collaborate in preparing and conducting internal and external sanitary audits, following guidelines issued by the competent authority. * Hygiene and Food Safety Control: Evaluate hygiene procedures for both personnel and facilities, verifying appropriate cleaning and disinfection practices are consistently followed. * Inspect equipment and utensils to ensure they are in optimal hygienic and operational condition. * Documentation and Reporting: Prepare and maintain detailed records of all inspections and audits conducted, generating clear and accurate reports on any process deviations or regulatory non-compliance. * Prepare periodic reports for management regarding product quality status and regulatory compliance. * Training and Awareness: Provide ongoing employee training on best practices in food safety, product quality, and proper hygiene procedures. * Promote a culture of quality and compliance within the work team. * Incident Resolution: Identify and propose solutions to any issues related to product quality or sanitary regulatory compliance. * Coordinate necessary corrective actions when quality or hygiene process failures are detected. **Experience and Knowledge:** * Ability to identify risks and propose rapid, effective solutions. * Proactive, organized attitude with attention to detail. * Knowledge of quality management, Ministry of Health audits, HACCP regulations, or Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP). **Required Skills and Attributes** * Teamwork * Sense of urgency * Critical thinking and analytical ability. * Ability to communicate results and recommendations clearly and precisely. * Proactivity and follow-up capability. * Professional ethics and confidentiality in handling sensitive information. * Knowledge of current national sanitary and food safety regulations, especially those applicable to bakeries. * Experience conducting internal audits and preparing for external Ministry of Health audits. * Skills in documentation management and sanitary record keeping. * Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team. Job Type: Full-time Salary: Up to $20,000\.00 per month Benefits: * Option for indefinite-term contract * Free uniforms Work Location: On-site employment