Quality Assurance Manager at Adexen

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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