Food Safety / Quality Control Manager at Ascentech Services Limited

Ascentech Services Limited is a full-fledged Human Resource Solution Provider incorporated in 2013 with its Head Office in Lagos, Nigeria. We are committed to forging long-term partnerships with our clients by creating and delivering robust and flexible services that address the changing needs of their business.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Food Safety / Quality Control Manager

Location: Mowe, Ogun
Employment Type: Full-time

Responsibilities & Duties

• Function as a high-level, strategic decision-maker within the organization. Help direct and grow the company.
• Ensure that the QA/QC-Food Safety team is producing work that is of the highest quality while ensuring maximum profitability, productivity and efficiency.
• Inspire people, lead by example, and create a culture of high performance by providing ongoing and actionable performance based feedback. Ensure that appropriate direction is established and maintained for all.
• Interact with cross-functional teams to ensure Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery.
• Actively support the vision, culture, core values, ethics, and goals of San Miguel Produce.
• Some duties include but not limited to product sampling and testing, and development of standardized procedures in order to successfully meet customer specifications and regulatory standards.
• This position also must oversee and coordinate 3rd party and FDA/USDA audits, leads investigations of quality concerns and complaints, and collaborate with both farming and manufacturing departments
• Evaluate and improve QA/QC processes.
• Define QA/QC policies.
• Develop QA/QC budgets.
• Develop, maintain, and revise updates of all Quality and Food Safety SOPs.
• Lead the food safety, quality assurance, and sanitation program.
• Develop, implement, and maintain documentation and procedures pertaining to food safety and quality assurance.
• Conduct internal audits.
• Implement, maintain and document employee training procedures.
• Trend analysis, root cause analysis, corrective actions and preventative actions.
• Maintain HACCP program, pest control program and conduct crisis management and mock recalls.
• Supervise daily sanitation of equipment and facility.
• Record traceability of all outgoing product.
• This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by this employee. He or she will be required to follow any other instructions and to perform any other duties as needed.

Requirements

• B.A or B.Sc Degree from a four-year college or university, preferably in Food Science and Technology and 5 years up to and including 7 years of food product or process supervision and development or related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Must be able to Supervise department staff of 300+ employees.
• Exposure to audits accepted by GFSI like… BRCGS, FSSC -22000,SQF,IFS & Global GAP.
• Responsible for carrying out supervisory responsibilities in accordance with the organization's policies and applicable laws.
• HACCP and SQF Practitioner certification strongly desired.
• Familiarity with OSHA requirements
• Concrete knowledge of HACCP, LGMA, GMP, SSOP, and GFSI and SQF.
• Must be able to set and attain goals, initiate action to resolve problems and improve products and processes.
• Must be able to provide concise executive summaries of quality issues, summaries changes needed or made to QA/QC processes.
• Good organizational and project management skills.
• Good oral and written communication skills with the ability to effectively interface with a variety of people at various technical and management levels.
• Working knowledge of FDA- compliant, process control and quality system management related to agriculture.
• Experience with strategic planning and being a member of a high level executive team.
• Prior responsibilities to include test design and analysis of results experience. Some experience with project budget development and control desirable.
• Experience with fresh produce is very desirable; knowledge of post-harvest science and controlled/modified atmosphere packaging will be useful.
• Must understand product sensory quality test methods and procedures; experience in developing quality scales and specifications is essential.

Remuneration
N800,000 - N850,000 Monthly.

Application Closing Date
20th October, 2023.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV to: cv@ascentech.com.ng using "Food Safety / Quality Control Manager" as the subject of the email.

Note: Only suitable and qualified candidates will be contacted.