Quality Assurance Officer at So Fresh Neighbourhood Market

So Fresh is Nigeria’s premium food hub for a wide range of fresh, nutritious and healthy meals. Seven years on, So Fresh has become the number one desired destination for people to make clean, safe & healthy food choices.

At So Fresh, we therefore believe that food should be fresh wholesome and close to nature as much as possible, hence we create, retail and promote fresh, tasty, organic, hygienic wholesome and healthy food.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Assurance Officer

Location: Lagos

Job Purpose

• Ensure compliance to company’s quality procedures, standards and specifications among staff.

Job Duties

• Ensure the monitoring and programming critical control points in all outlets.
• Responsible for monitoring product food safety and quality throughout the production process.
• Manage corrective and preventive action process; including failure, investigation and root-cause analysis regarding food quality.
• Conduct Water and Food Item Analysis across all outlet; also following up on the laboratories on the result of the tests.
• Responsible for managing quality standards on the production lines by liaising with the Outlet Managers and Production Supervisors.
• Ensure the correct recipe guidelines for products are adhered to.
• Periodically vet outlets’ filling of record logs and documentation during outlet visit.
• Ensure freshness, wholesomeness and cleanliness of all fruits, vegetables and other ingredients used in production.
• Responsible for creating, revising and maintaining a library of all departmental Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and policies.
• Ensure that all products and procedures are in compliance with established specifications and regulatory standards while liaising with Government Regulatory Bodies.
• Ensure that all new regulations are accurately implemented at all outlets and suppliers.
• Continually improve the system, processes, and make suggestions for changes and improvements.
• Conducts routine inspection in all outlets, ensuring controls and documentation procedures.
• Ensure strict compliance to hygiene standards and quality protocol among staff.

Qualifications

• Minimum of B.Sc. in Microbiology, Biochemistry or any related discipline.
• 1 - 3 years’ experience in quality assurance for QSR.
• Experience in developing industry standard SOPs and Policies.
• Practical knowledge of Process Improvement methodologies such as Total Quality Management, Six Sigma etc.
• Practical knowledge of Food Safety Management and Lean Production.

Salary
N100,000 - N150,000 / Month

Application Closing Date
4th May, 2023.