Quality Assurance Manager at Tropical General Investments (TGI) Group

Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead the Quality vision for assigned business units
• Responsible for all Packaging Products Quality
• Responsible for Packaging development
• Drive cost savings projects relating to packaging
• Lead all Quality related loss elimination across site, identifying, eliminating, simplifying, combining and reducing QA work processes and losses.
• Responsible for all quality input during engineering design process, all initiatives and projects (new equipment, building or capacity expansion).
• Responsible for Leading Packaging team which develop new Packaging options and Technology.
• Responsible for developing Packaging strategy and inputs into development of R&D Strategic plan for assigned business units.
• Responsible for Projects management of all packaging projects, and ensuring projects deliverables are met on time, within budgets, and no technical failure.
• Responsible for conducting all Quality Audits of Suppliers and all SAT and FAT for new process lines for assigned business units.
• Responsible for coordinating and facilitating all New Products development (NPD) and Existing product development (EPD) in alignment with Marketing team.
• Drive the Quality of products and packaging across the entire group and benchmarking of products and Packaging.
• Design and review of product pallet configuration for assigned business units.
• Design and review of product pallet configuration for assigned business units.

Requirements and Skills

• Requires academic Qualification packaging technology (Through regular education & not short-term certified programs obtained online)
• 4 – 5 Years of experience in handling Quality aspects of packaging materials (Specifications development / Proficiency in Packaging Lab. operation)
• 5+ years’ experience in Quality Control in Packaging operations
• 3+ years in Supplier Quality Assurance
• 3 – 4 Years of staff development / coaching
• Soft skills: Good communication skills (Written / verbal), ability to handle complexity /Problem solving.

Additional - Added advantage:

• Knowledge / certifications on QMS / Food safety system
• Statistical process control.