Biosecurity Officer - Full-time position vacant at our agricultural business Kaizen Operations Pty Ltd, based at Central Bucca, NSW 2450 in the Coffs Harbour Region.
Minimum 38 hours a week.
This position is to work closely with the owners to inspect blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry crops, facilities, hygiene standards, disease, and pest management to ensure compliance with farm procedures, government, and industry standards with respect to quality, health, and licence.
Your role is to ensure farm quality control is carried out in a timely manner and to our high standards.
This role is vital in ensuring that company performance targets are met in terms of produce quality, growth, and production.
Annual Salary (depending on experience/skills) between $70,000.00 - $80,000.00 plus superannuation.
Relevant diploma qualification is required or a minimum of 3 years of relevant full-time work experience in a similar or closely related occupation.
Job Description: Inspecting blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry to identify quality issues and to provide feedback to producers.
Auditing and monitoring quality procedures at farms and food handling and processing facilities to ensure compliance with required standards.
Testing samples of produce for blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry crop for quality, size, and purity.
Determining alternative methods to create better quality of produce.
Ensuring that required standards of hygiene are observed at storage, processing and packing facilities and in transport vehicles.
Advising primary producers on economic aspects of disease eradication and informing producers and the general public of health implications of disease and impurities for the blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry crop.
Advising on the identification of pests and diseases and on regulations pertaining to grading, packing, and loading of blueberry, raspberry, and blackberry products.
Understanding biosecurity protocols.
Assisting in legal action to enforce regulations where required.
Applicant must have: Relevant certificate 4 or diploma qualification, or a minimum of 3 years of relevant full-time work experience in a similar or closely related occupation.
Please send queries to: Kaizen Operations Pty LtdEmail: All applications to be sent via this job portal.
Only successful candidates will be contacted.
Job Type: Full-time Pay: $70,000.00 – $80,000.00 per year Work Authorisation: Australia (Preferred) Work Location: In person #J-18808-Ljbffr