Location: Rajkot, Gujarat, India

Work Type: Full-Time, In office

Experience Required: Minimum 5 Years

About the Role

Aiva, a manufacturer and exporter of food products including Dals, Spices, Poha, Edible Oils, Snacks, Flours, and other packaged food products, is seeking an experienced Food Safety, Quality Control & QA Manager for Rajkot facility.

The successful candidate will be responsible for maintaining high standards across food safety, product quality, packaging quality, case/carton quality, vendor quality, documentation, and order coordination.

This is a hands-on position requiring daily on-site presence. The candidate should be comfortable working directly with production, packaging, warehouse, purchasing, and vendor teams.

Key Responsibilities

Food Safety & Quality Assurance

Ensure all products meet Aiva’s established food safety and quality standards.

Inspect incoming raw materials, ingredients, packaging materials, finished products, and outgoing shipments.

Monitor quality throughout production, processing, packing, storage, and dispatch.

Identify quality issues, investigate root causes, and implement corrective and preventive actions.

Maintain proper QA/QC records, inspection reports, specifications, and supporting documentation.

Monitor hygiene, sanitation, housekeeping, pest-control practices, and food-handling procedures throughout the facility.

Support compliance with applicable food safety regulations, customer requirements, and export quality standards.

Coordinate product sampling and laboratory testing.

Manage non-conforming products and materials and ensure appropriate corrective action.

Product Quality

Establish and monitor quality specifications for Dals, Spices, Poha, Oils, Snacks, Flours, and other Aiva products.

Check products for appearance, color, texture, aroma, taste, moisture, foreign material, contamination, and other applicable quality parameters.





Ensure consistency between production batches.

Approve or reject products based on established quality standards.

Work closely with production teams to reduce defects, rework, wastage, and customer complaints.

Packaging & Case Quality

Inspect pouches, bags, labels, printed packaging, cartons/cases, sealing, coding, and finished packaging.

Verify correct product name, SKU, weight, lot/batch information, manufacturing details, expiry/best-before information, barcodes, and other required labeling.

Ensure packaging materials meet approved specifications before use.

Monitor sealing integrity, package appearance, carton strength, and overall finished-case quality.

Prevent incorrect packaging, labeling, or product mix-ups before shipment.

Vendor & Order Management

Coordinate with packaging, raw-material, and other approved vendors regarding purchase requirements and quality expectations.

Coordinate purchase/order status with internal teams and vendors.

Track open orders, expected delivery dates, shortages, rejections, replacements, and pending items.

Reporting & Excel The candidate must have excellent Microsoft Excel skills and be comfortable managing large amounts of operational and quality data.

Required Excel capabilities include

Pivot Tables

VLOOKUP/XLOOKUP

Data sorting and filtering

Formulas and data validation

Required Qualifications & Experience

Minimum 5 years of experience in Food Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Food Inspection, or a closely related position.

Previous experience in a food manufacturing or food processing facility is strongly preferred.

Experience with products such as pulses/dals, spices, grains, flours, snacks, oils, or packaged foods is highly desirable.

Strong attention to detail and ability to identify product and packaging defects.

- Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables and lookup functions.

📌 Food Safety & Quality Assurance QA Manager, Rajkot
🏢 Aiva Products
📍 Rajkot