QUALITY CONTROL ANALYST

Description

Job Summary: An analytical and committed professional focused on continuous improvement to ensure excellence in processes and products at RJ Alimentos. Key Highlights: 1. Strategic involvement in maintaining and improving quality management systems. 2. Leadership in continuous improvement processes to reduce losses. 3. Opportunity to work in a dynamic, excellence-oriented environment. **About the Company** The **RJ Alimentos** is a family-owned company operating in the market for **18 years**, driven by the purpose of producing and distributing food with high quality standards and great taste. Throughout its journey, it has established its own brand as a reference across numerous sales channels, while distinguishing itself through distribution efficiency and proximity, consistently meeting customer needs with excellence. Currently, the company is undergoing an important phase of **organizational restructuring**, aiming to strengthen its processes, elevate its standards, and accelerate growth. Therefore, we seek professionals who go beyond operational tasks, actively contributing ideas, improvements, and helping build this new phase. We are seeking a Quality Control Analyst to ensure excellence in our processes, products, and deliveries. We seek an analytical, detail-oriented, and continuously improvement-focused professional who proactively identifies opportunities, standardizes processes, and ensures compliance with quality standards. If you enjoy working with metrics, possess strong organizational skills, critical thinking ability, and aspire to work in a dynamic, excellence-oriented environment, this opportunity may be right for you. ? Job Mission: Ensure food safety, legal/sanitary compliance, and product quality standardization across all production stages (from raw materials to dispatch) through execution, monitoring, and improvement of quality control processes, ensuring traceability, compliance, and operational excellence. Main Responsibilities: **Quality and Food Safety Management System** Strategically maintain and improve quality management systems, ensuring compliance with legislation and customer requirements. Provide technical leadership for audits and certification processes. **Production Process Control (Sun-Dried Beef)** Define and review critical control parameters, optimize the production process, and ensure technical product release based on advanced quality criteria. **Non-Conformance Management and Continuous Improvement** Lead structured continuous improvement initiatives, eliminating recurring root causes and reducing losses and rework, promoting continuous improvement collaboratively with Production, Maintenance, Procurement, and Logistics departments. **Monitoring and Management of KPIs** Manage strategic KPIs, conduct critical analyses, and support management decision-making. **Records and Document Control** Review and standardize documents, ensuring information reliability and audit readiness. **Training and Operational Support** Develop training content, structure training programs, serve as technical reference for the team, conduct behavioral audits in the production environment, provide immediate feedback, and develop visual standards and checklists to reinforce operational discipline. Requirements: Experience with advanced Quality Management **GMP, SOP, SSOP, HACCP** and inspection routines and recordkeeping. Advanced level Internal and external audits KPI management Continuous improvement (Lean, Six Sigma – preferred) Advanced Excel Preferred: Experience in the **food industry**, preferably in animal protein / meat processing.