Quality Assurance Officer (Fixed-Term) at Jobs at One Acre Fund - Kenya — CareerPair

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Quality Assurance Officer (Fixed-Term)

Ruiru, Kenya

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Description

As a Quality Assurance Officer, you will support quality control, food safety, and compliance activities across dried fruit production. You'll conduct inspections, sampling, testing, and hygiene verification to ensure products meet internal and customer specifications.

Requirements

Experience in quality assurance or quality control in food processing.
Knowledge of food safety standards (FSSC/BRC) and HACCP principles.
Ability to conduct laboratory tests for moisture content, water activity, and organoleptic quality.
Strong documentation and record-keeping skills.
Ability to train production staff on quality basics and hygiene standards.

Responsibilities

Inspect incoming fruit for defects, pest damage, and ripeness, and support sampling for intake quality checks.
Monitor storage and ripening conditions, recording temperature, humidity, and ripening stages.
Verify grading and reject thresholds during sorting, and inspect peeling and slicing alignment.
Monitor Critical Control Points (drying temperature, time), conduct moisture and water activity testing.
Execute sampling plans for raw, in-process, and finished goods, and maintain cleanliness of lab areas.

Jobs at One Acre Fund - Kenya

One Acre Fund is a non-profit social enterprise that supplies financing and training to help smallholders grow their way out of hunger and build lasting pathways to prosperity. When farmers improve their harvests, they pull themselves out of poverty. They also start producing surplus food for their neighbors. When farmers prosper, they eradicate poverty and hunger in their communities. One Acre Fund is growing quickly and we are proud to soon represent Africa’s largest network of smallholder farmers. By 2020, we will serve at least 1 million farm families - with more than 5 million people living in those families. And the farmers we serve will produce enough surplus food to feed another 5 million of their neighbors. This is only the tip of the iceberg. When millions of farmers speak with one voice, we can more effectively pursue collaboration together with government and the private sector to broaden our reach. One Acre Fund began in Kenya and is now one of our largest and fastest-growing countries of operation. Our vision for 2030 is to end hunger in Kenya and provide a pathway to prosperity for every farm family in the nation. One Acre Fund Kenya is transitioning from a…

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