Company Description Tastel Fine Food Pvt. Ltd. is a growing food company focused on delivering high-quality, safe, and compliant products to customers. The organization emphasizes robust systems, strong quality standards, and continuous improvement across its operations.

Team members collaborate closely across production, compliance, and customer-facing functions to maintain consistent product excellence. The company values integrity, accountability, and a proactive approach to food safety and regulatory adherence, creating an workplace where quality professionals can significantly influence outcomes.

Q: Are you willing to work on-site in Karad full-time, including shift coverage when needed?

Q: Have you maintained BRCGS, IFS or FSSC 22000 or Any other GFSI and faced certification audits?

Q: Are you a certified Lead Auditor BRC issue 9?

Q: Have you worked with Acidified Hot-Fill sauces category in your previous organizations?

Q: Are you considered a 'process authority' in any of your previous stints?

Q: Have you worked abroad?

Q: Have you dealt with international customer communications directly?

Q: Have you worked in the export oriented Food Processing space?

QA Manager – Systems, Compliance & Customer Quality

Tastel Fine Food makes ready meals, sauces and meal kits for international retail and food-service customers in Australia, the UK, Europe, the Middle East and the USA. Our Karad plant is certified to global food-safety standards and is audited regularly by customers.

We are looking for a QA Manager who will own our quality systems, customer complaints, RCA/CAPA and audit readiness. You will make sure no product leaves the plant without a real,



documented hold-and-release decision.

Food safety system and audits

Maintain HACCP and the food-safety system to BRCGS, IFS and FSSC 22000 standards.

Lead preparation for certification, customer, kosher, halal and regulatory audits; close findings on time with evidence.

Run internal audits and Gemba walks, and keep a single NC tracker accurate and current, with owners, target dates and verified closure

Be a part of execution & hands on approach to problem solving

Training, team and governance

Train QA, QC and production staff, and measure whether the training works: tests, line audits, defect rates.

Lead and develop the QA team. Follow company processes for hiring, onboarding, approvals and spending.

RCA/CAPA

Own every NCR from first response to verified closure.

Send a preliminary response within 24 hours with a structured RCA plan, the data to be collected, and any questions.

Lead RCA with proper tools (5-Why, fishbone, 8D) and evidence: test data, photos, batch records, line and shift details.

Write CAPAs that are specific, measurable and dated, with an owner and a check that they worked. Track complaint trends.

Pest control, hygiene and vendors

Manage pest control and fumigation contractors: written agreements, approved POs and vendor effectiveness checks.





Approve and audit suppliers; raise supplier NCRs when the root cause is incoming material.

Export compliance and suppliers

Manage container inspection, stuffing checks and fumigation (MBR/ALP) to each destination's rules, with ISPM-compliant certificates.

Approve and audit suppliers of ingredients and flexible packaging based on Export destination compliance standard

Good to have

BRCGS, IFS or FSSC 22000 Lead Auditor certification; a Better Process Control School or thermal-process validation course.

Experience handling US, UK, EU or Australian supermarket customers.

Knowledge of export requirements: container fumigation, ETO-free spices, EU pesticide limits, Spices Board and EIC documentation.

Exposure to kosher or halal certification and allergen validation.

Must have

B.Tech/M.Sc in Food Technology, Food Science or Microbiology.

10–14 years in food QA, with 4+ years managing QA for export or international retail customers.

- Hands-on experience with shelf-stable pouch products (hot-fill/pasteurised or retort), including thermal process records, seal integrity and incubation testing.
- A proven record of structured RCA/CAPA (8D, 5-Why, fishbone) that customers accepted.
- Experience running positive release, AQL sampling and finished-product inspection.
- Experience maintaining BRCGS or IFS and leading the plant through certification and customer audits.
- Strong written English for customer communication; working knowledge of Marathi and Hindi.
- Organised, with strong Excel/tracker skills; you follow through to closure without reminders.
- ERP/ SAP proficiency.

📌 QA Manager -Systems,Ccompliance & Ccustomer Quality (Mumbai)
🏢 Tastel Fine Food P
📍 Mumbai