Quality Assurance and Food Labelling Coordinator

We are seeking a meticulous and proactive Quality Assurance and Food Labelling Coordinator to ensure our products meet New Zealand's food safety and labelling standards. This role is integral to maintaining compliance, transparency, and trust across our supply chain. Our company provides importation of wholesale, retail food, liquor and consumer products. Our unique delivery system enables us to offer an extensive range of high-quality products from Japan with nationwide and international delivery.

Key Responsibilities: • Obtaining product specifications, food safety certificates, and relevant documents from our suppliers (food manufacturers and exporters) to confirm the origin, raw materials, additives, allergens, nutritional content, etc. of the food product we source, and to ensure that they fully meet food safety standards.

• In the case of products imported from overseas, confirm whether they can be imported in accordance with New Zealand’s food import regulations.

• As a person in charge to create food labelling (ingredient and nutrition information), always stay up-to-date on the latest food safety standards and food labelling standards, and verify that the food labelling of the products we handles is accurate based on Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code (FSANZ code).

• Based on the original packaging and specifications written in Japanese for products imported from Japan, creating accurate English food labelling that complies with New Zealand rules and regulations.

Location of work: Mt Wellington.

• Minimum one year of relevant experience in product quality control or product quality assurance (ideally in the food industry but not mandatory), or experience in similar work.

• Fluency in Japanese - the successful candidate must be proficient in Japanese because this role involves reading and instantly understanding product specification and packaging written in Japanese language.

• Extensive knowledge of food safety, food hygiene, food labelling, Japanese foods, international food standards will be a big advantage.

• Be computer literate (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint etc)

• Have a positive attitude and confidence and are motivated to work independently as well as in a team.

• Punctual, reliable attendance to the office and can focus consistently on a daily business