Role summary

We are building an ambitious, quality-first food manufacturing operation in Ahmedabad across processed dairy and plant-based cheese, fresh cheese and high-protein products using ultrafiltration, and fermented beverages including kombucha.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Executive - Quality Assurance & Food Safety to own day-to-day food-safety discipline, strengthen our Food Safety Management System, and help the plant build toward FSSAI compliance and international-standard systems such as HACCP, ISO 22000, and FSSC 22000.

This is a plant-floor ownership role, not a desk-only documentation position. The successful candidate will work closely with Production, R&D;, Procurement, Stores, and leadership, with access to experienced dairy, food R&D;, and plant-commissioning mentors.

Key responsibilities

- Maintain and improve the site's Food Safety Management System, SOPs, SSOPs, records, specifications, checklists, and document controls.
- Drive compliance with FSSAI requirements, Schedule 4, GMP, GHP, HACCP, hygiene, sanitation, allergen controls, and internal quality standards.
- Monitor plant-floor practices including pre-operation checks, line clearance, personnel hygiene, process controls, CCPs/OPRPs, temperature and cold-chain controls, cleaning, sanitation, and CIP records.
- Review incoming raw-material and packaging quality, supplier documents, COAs, specifications, and traceability records; coordinate supplier-quality follow-up where required.
- Coordinate sampling and internal or third-party microbiological, chemical, water,



and environmental testing; review results and escalate deviations.
- Investigate non-conformities and customer complaints using root-cause analysis; own corrective and preventive action tracking through effective closure.
- Maintain batch traceability and conduct mock recalls; support product hold/release and non-conforming product controls as per approved procedures.
- Prepare for and participate in internal, customer, regulatory, and certification audits; close observations within agreed timelines.
- Coordinate calibration, pest-control, water-quality, hygiene-verification, and environmental-monitoring programs.
- Deliver and document food-safety training for employees and food handlers; obtain FoSTaC Food Safety Supervisor certification if not already certified.
- Track quality indicators such as deviations, complaints, CAPA ageing, audit findings, hygiene scores, testing trends, and training completion.
- Partner constructively with Production while retaining the independence and confidence to stop or hold a non-compliant process or product pending review.

Candidate profile

- 2-4 years of hands-on QA / Food Safety experience inside a food manufacturing plant.




- Practical working knowledge of HACCP, GMP/GHP, FSSAI requirements, SOPs, traceability, CAPA, root-cause analysis, and audit preparation.
- Experience in dairy, cheese, beverages, fermentation, chilled foods, or other microbiologically sensitive foods is preferred; strong systems capability matters more than exact product experience.
- Exposure to ISO 22000 or FSSC 22000 is strongly preferred; internal-auditor or FoSTaC certification is an advantage.
- Comfortable spending substantial time on the shop floor, observing practices, questioning deviations, and following actions to closure.
- Solid documentation, Excel, data-trending, communication, and cross-functional coordination skills.
- High learning agility, personal ownership, attention to detail, and the ambition to grow into the site's quality and food-safety leader.

What success looks like First six months: Establish a practical gap register, strengthen controls for the highest-risk processes, improve audit readiness and record discipline, complete a traceability/mock-recall exercise, and build a visible training and CAPA rhythm across the plant.

Why join us

- Work across dairy, plant-based, ultrafiltration, fresh-cheese, fermentation, and automation-led manufacturing.
- Receive structured exposure to experienced dairy, R&D;, process scale-up, and plant-commissioning mentors.
- Build systems early rather than inherit a narrow maintenance role.
- Grow toward plant-level ownership as the operation scales.

📌 Sr. Executive - Quality Assurance & Food Safety (Ahmedabad)
🏢 Dronify Global
📍 Ahmedabad