Quality Control Manager at Rayhaan Bustan & Agro Allied Limited

Rayhaan Bustan & Agro Allied Limited is a world-class Agro-based company with ties and investments in various emerging markets for innovative and sustainable rice production and processing across several developing countries and around the world at large. Our facilities are known to cover the full range of rice and paddy handling – from pre-cleaning, paddy storage, dryers, hullers, polishers, rice whiteners, optical sorters to bagging, to produce best quality products.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Control Manager

Location: Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• We are looking for a detail-oriented Quality Control Manager to ensure the manufacturing production lines run smoothly and generate a consistently suitable output of products that meet quality and efficiency standards.
• The quality control manager understands the customer's needs and requirements and coordinates employee efforts and communications between management and the production teams.
• Your responsibilities will include performing some business administration and human resource duties.

Responsibilities

• Proffer recommendations to company management on ways to improve on existing quality processes;
• Approve compliant products and reject defective ones;
• Prepare and present reports to update upper management on quality activities
• Ensuring manufactured products meet set standards of quality, reliability and performance;
• Evaluate client requirements to ensure their needs are met by set customer service standards;
• To collaborate with quality personnel to implement procedures, systems, and standards of operation;
• Devising ways to improve the manufacturing process to ensure higher-quality goods;
• Supervising inspectors, technicians, and other staff members and providing guidance;
• Ensuring legal obligations are followed and ensuring compliance with regulatory bodies and with health and safety guidelines;
• Keeping accurate documentation and performing statistical analysis;
• Gaining feedback from the clients, attending meetings, submitting reports, and assisting external auditors and inspectors;
• Achieve consistent quality with zero defect in collaboration with all stakeholders by constantly developing, planning and implementing quality systems & processes and training of plant personnel;
• Develop, plan and implement quality systems to meet Food Safety standards;
• Continuously improve quality awareness and standards including sensory evaluation of raw materials, intermediates and finished goods;
• Setup, maintain and operate lab to meet all requirements of testing of incoming, in-process and finished goods consistently;
• Coordination with external laboratories and external calibration agencies for all testing requirements and new methods;
• Support vendor quality improvement programs and looking for opportunities for improvement with vendors;
• Overall responsibility for managing the quality of rice milling operations;
• Perform Quality incident investigation and corrective actions;
• Monitoring end-to-end QA process and logistics;
• Establish and monitor overall plant performance for production and quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Management or Administration or related field in Engineering, Polymer Science Technology and Applied Sciences;
• At least 7 years experience in the Food Industry; particularly rice milling or manufacturing field.

Requirements:

• Good communication skills;
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills;
• Thorough knowledge of food safety systems, GMP, GLP, Auditing, Compliance, Training, Food testing (including sensory), basic regulatory knowledge;
• Ability to independently develop standard operating procedures (SOP’s) for routine analysis of products (e.g basic panels – protein, moisture, carbohydrate, ash;
• Conduct routine chemical and compositional analysis of new and existing product lines;
• Deploy and operate analytical equipment in the laboratory, as well as identify areas for expansion or improvement of our analytical capabilities;
• Proficient in MS Office;
• In depth understanding of quality control procedures and relevant legal standards;
• Excellent math abilities and working knowledge of data analysis / statistical methods;
• Must be able to stand and walk for long periods of time.

Application Closing Date
31st July, 2022.