Adexen Recruitment Agency - Our client, a multinational food-products manufacturing company that produces dairy products, bottled water, cereals, baby foods and yogurts, is currently seeking for suitably qualified candidates to fill the vacant position below:
Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager
Job Reference: 1169 Location: Ibadan- Oyo State
Industry: Food and Beverages
Function: Operations & Production
Job Description
The purpose of the role is to deliver the value promises to customers & consumers by ensuring conformity in product, processes and behaviours.
1.) Finished Product Quality & Food Safety:
Ensures Conformity of all products delivered to market
Optimizes the product control plan to ensure product conformity to the value promises
Optimizes the plant Laboratory in its four dimensions: production / expertise / training / exemplarity
2.) Quality & Food Safety in all the Plant processes & projects:
Ensures that Quality & Food Safety is part of all working instructions
Ensure all the elements of the Quality & Food Safety are in place and that processes are formalized & compliant with corporate / regulatory / customer requirements
Validates the consistency & effectiveness of processes described in procedures, as a support to daily performance management
Builds and steers a Plant Quality & Food Safety improvement plan, consistent with the company’s Quality & Food Safety Business Plan and Corporate Directives
Link product variability to manufacturing process control and set up procedures to help build knowledge through operators – transfer of quality ownership to operators
Develops process capability & Quality visual management at all steps of the process, i.e. incoming/production/maintenance, etc.
Promotes Risk Assessment and “Build-in Quality” in all Plant projects: productivity, new products, new equipment.
Put in place with the production team a zoning approach to facilitates good housekeeping & hygiene practices
3.) Quality & Food Safety skills & attitudes in all Plant teams:
Combines a high reactivity to new problems with perseverant management of the medium term quality improvement plan
Organizes trainings and coach plant teams for daily quality management, particularly First Line Managers
Develops the Quality & Food Safety team and organizes training to close skills gaps
Builds a common Quality & Food Safety vision and related behavior, shared by all the Plant teams
As a member of the Industrial Management team (IMT), contributes to the Plant performance as a whole
4.) Performance:
Coordinates all the reporting of Quality & Food Safety KPI’s internally and to the Group & communicates them to all relevant stakeholders
Contributes to the plant performance vision and definition of targets
Facilitates quality& food safety committees and improvement action plans
5.) Costs:
Manages budget related to the Plant quality function
Continuously identify cost efficient ways of working, cost saving opportunities and deliver the savings without compromising quality integrity of output
6.) Safety:
Drive departmental safety agenda and audits as well as identified action plans
Ensure quality department adherence to safety policies, procedures and processes
Expectations
HND/B.Sc Food Science &/or Technology, Biochemistry, Biology or other relevant discipline
Minimum 10 years’ experience in the food industry, 3 of which must be at leadership/management level
Very good knowledge of the applicable quality and food safety standards in the food industry and mandated by government regulations.
Strong Problem solving skills
Strong Analysis & Risk management skills
Solid experience in Quality & Food safety Management Systems
Good technical understanding of food science & technology, formulation, processing & equipment
Basic knowledge of local food and food safety legislation & regulations
Ability to take decisions or make recommendations while assuming the associated risks
Excellent interpersonal skills, totally approachable and a strong team player
Strong change-management skills
Able to communicate and coach at all levels
Rigor and courage - work under pressure
Excellent service orientation, understands the market, customers and consumers