QC Assistant Manager

Workplace Circumstances

• Environment: Farming / Agriculture
• Languages: English, Khmer
• Location: Phnom Penh

Position Summary

Duty station: Phnom Penh, with regular visits to farms, collection points, warehouses and handling facilities

Reports to: QC Manager

Duties & Responsibilities

• Quality Systems and Standards
• Assist the QC Manager in developing and updating quality procedures, product specifications, inspection checklists and record templates.
• Implement approved quality-control plans for chilli, vegetables and chicken across farms, collection points, warehouses and handling facilities.
• Verify compliance with SOPs, GAP, IPM, food safety, traceability, hygiene, animal health, and chicken biosecurity requirements.
• Coordinate daily QC activities and supervise QC Officers or Inspectors when assigned.
• Inspection and Production Control
• Conduct or coordinate inspections and sampling of agricultural inputs, farm production, harvested products, chicken operations, storage and deliveries.
• Verify product grading, packaging, labelling, storage conditions and supporting traceability records against approved specifications.
• Recommend the acceptance, holding or rejection of products according to approved procedures and delegated authority.
• Coordinate laboratory testing or additional technical verification when product safety or quality is uncertain.
• Immediately report serious food-safety, animal-health, biosecurity or product-quality risks to the QC Manager.
• Non-conformity and corrective action
• Record non-conformities and issue corrective action requests to the responsible operational or technical teams.
• Coordinate root-cause investigations for product defects, customer complaints, rejections and repeated quality failures.
• Monitor corrective-action implementation and verify its completion and effectiveness.
• Records, reporting and capacity building
• Maintain accurate inspection, sampling, non-conformity, complaint, rejection and traceability records.
• Consolidate quality data and prepare regular reports on compliance, defects, losses, risks and outstanding corrective actions for the QC Manager.
• Train farm, warehouse, collection and handling teams on approved quality, hygiene, traceability and recordkeeping procedures.
• Support internal reviews, buyer inspections, external audits and quality-improvement activities.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits based on qualifications and experience.
• Mission allowance, transportation, fuel, and accommodation support for approved field assignments.
• Communication and necessary work equipment support according to the responsibilities of each position.
• Opportunities for career development within KiriTes’s expanding multi-province agricultural operations.

Languages

• Khmer - Good
• English - Good

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Food Science, Agriculture, Animal Science, Veterinary Science, Agro-Industry, Agronomy, Bioengineering or a related field.

Work History

• Relevant QA/QC experience for 5 years as a minimum

General & Technical Skills

• Practical experience in fresh produce, dried product, poultry, food processing or agricultural supply chains
• Strong knowledge of GAP, GMP, HACCP principles, food safety, traceability, hygiene and chicken biosecurity.
• Understanding of pesticide safety, pre-harvest intervals, veterinary-medicine withdrawal periods and product-handling requirements.
• Ability to conduct inspections, sampling, product verification and interpretation of laboratory or quality-control results.
• Experience managing non-conformities, root-cause investigations, corrective actions, customer complaints and product recalls.
• Good Microsoft Office, digital record-management, Khmer and working English skills.

Soft Skills

• Ability to supervise QC personnel, train operational teams and coordinate with technical and production departments.
• Strong attention to detail, independence, integrity and ability to report serious quality risks promptly.
• Willingness to travel regularly to farms, suppliers, warehouses and project sites.