Quality Assurance Officer
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Rujo Agri-Trade Company Ltd is hiring a Quality Assurance Officer for its new automated rice processing facility in Tamale. The role involves implementing and managing HACCP, GMP, and quality assurance systems, monitoring raw materials and finished products, and ensuring compliance with food safety standards. Applicants should submit a CV and cover letter by email.
- Lead food safety and quality systems for a modern rice processing plant
- Monitor raw materials, processing, packaging, and finished rice quality
- Coordinate audits, traceability, and corrective actions
- Full-time role based in Tamale, Northern Region
- Apply by emailing CV and cover letter to careers@rujoagritrade.com
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Original source description
Negotiable
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20 Sep 2026
Job Type
Full-time
Tamale, Northern
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Job Description
REPORTS TO Managing Director
About the Opportunity
Rujo Agric Trade Company Ltd is establishing a modern, automated rice processing facility in Tamale and is seeking a motivated and experienced Quality Assurance Officer to lead the implementation and day-to-day management of the factory's food safety and quality assurance systems.
The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring that raw materials, processing operations, packaging and finished rice consistently meet company specifications, customer
Requirements
- and applicable food safety and regulatory standards.
- Key
Responsibilities
- Food Safety & Quality Systems
- Implement, maintain and continually improve the company's HACCP, GMP and quality assurance systems.
- Maintain food safety policies, SOPs, specifications, monitoring forms and quality records.
- Ensure effective implementation of prerequisite programmes, including hygiene, sanitation, pest control, environmental monitoring, maintenance and personnel practices.
- Support customer, regulatory and certification audits, and coordinate closure of identified non-conformities.
- Raw Material & Supplier Quality
- Inspect and approve incoming paddy, packaging materials and other production inputs.
- Monitor key paddy quality parameters, including moisture content, foreign matter, damaged or discoloured grains, pest infestation, varietal uniformity and general grain condition.
- Maintain supplier approval and performance-monitoring systems.
- Approve, reject or quarantine incoming materials based on established specifications.
- Process & Finished Product Quality Control
- Monitor quality throughout cleaning, destoning, dehusking, milling, polishing, grading, colour sorting, packaging and storage.
- Monitor key quality indicators, including:
- moisture content;
- head rice yield and milling recovery;
- percentage of broken grains;
- degree of milling;
- grain appearance and purity;
- foreign matter;
- pack weight accuracy; and
- packaging and seal integrity.
- Ensure effective monitoring and verification of food safety control points, including metal detection and other foreign-body controls.
- Verify finished product conformity before release.
- Traceability, Non-Conformance & CAPA
- Maintain effective batch identification and traceability from paddy receipt through finished product dispatch.
- Coordinate mock traceability and recall exercises.
- Investigate process deviations, product non-conformities and customer complaints.
- Lead root-cause analysis and implement corrective and preventive actions (CAPA).
- Monitor corrective actions to ensure effectiveness and prevent recurrence.
- Hygiene, Environmental Monitoring & Training
- Conduct routine GMP and hygiene inspections.
- Coordinate the factory's environmental monitoring programme.
- Train employees on GMP, personal hygiene, food safety, HACCP, quality procedures and product specifications.
- Promote a strong culture of food safety and quality ownership across the factory.
- Reporting
- Prepare and maintain daily quality and inspection reports, production quality summaries, laboratory and monitoring results, customer complaint investigations, internal audit reports, CAPA status reports, and food safety and quality performance reports.
- Interested applicants should submit a
- CV
- and
- brief cover letter
- outlining their relevant experience.
- Email / Application Link:
- [email protected]
- Email Subject: "Quality Assurance Officer - Tamale"
- Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.
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- Job Overview
- Negotiable
- Vacancies
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- 20 Sep 2026
- Job Type
- Full-time
- Tamale, Northern
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- About the Employer
- Rujo Agri-Trade Company Ltd
- Agriculture and Food Processing
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