Job Vacancies at Olam Agri

At Olam, we are looking for a highly diligent individual who specializes in quality to understand customer expectation and translate them into company quality norms. The individual will play a key role in outlining quality standards and developing quality control processes. The incumbent will ensure compliance to quality norms, policies, and procedures of the company. The objective is to cultivate a culture of consistent quality with zero defect in collaboration with all stakeholders by continually developing, planning and implementing quality systems & processes and training of plant personnel. 

Strategic Effectiveness

• Develop, plan and implement quality systems to meet food safety standards in line with GFSI guidelines.
• Build control systems to comply with food safety requirements including PRPs. Design and deploy audit processes (factory, market, warehouse, etc.).
• Conducting root cause analysis for deviations. Develop and implement a corrective action plan where needed. Regularly review compliance status for all quality-related observations and lead the process of sharing views with all stakeholders for implementation/closure of the open audit points.
• Continuously improve quality awareness and standards including sensory evaluation of raw materials, intermediates, and finished goods.
• Closely interact with other functions including R&D, manufacturing, and sourcing to effectively collaborate and seek their inputs on improvement/development of quality systems and processes.
• Setup, maintain and operate laboratory to meet all requirements of testing of incoming, in-process and finished goods consistently.
• Coordination with external laboratories and external calibration agencies for all other testing requirements.
• Support improvement programs on vendor quality. 

Operational Effectiveness

• Develop and train the team to improve the effectiveness of the implementation of best practices in all areas of work.
• Identify learning needs of team members and personnel critical to food safety to enhance skills.
• Develop and maintain a motivated team.
• Plan and conduct training for all plant personnel on food safety and personal hygiene.
• Classify and process consumer feedback through interaction with customers and stakeholders.
• Advice immediate/short/long term action plan through the internal web-based systems to address customer issues promptly and maintain excellent customer satisfaction ratings.
• Assist in the investigation of quality-related matters, including coordination with other stakeholders and vendors.
• Review and report compliance status for identified risks.
• Report and track all business risk related to quality non-conformances and escalations.
• Report to all concerned stakeholders on business risk in this area.
• Liaison with statutory, regulatory and government agencies.
• Assist in commissioning and start-up of new projects and conduct IQ, OQ, PQ for new equipment installations.
• Validate quality aspects during scale-up trials including travel test and share trial reports to all stakeholders to ensure that all new products are developed and scaled up to meet quality norms.
• Develop new ways of working that would be cost-effective and be within the budget and quality requirements.
• Develop appropriate tracking mechanism to report progress on a daily/weekly/fortnightly /monthly/quarterly and annualized basis on outcomes of the implementation of quality plans.

Requirements

• Thorough knowledge of food safety systems, GMP, GLP, auditing, compliance, training, food testing (including sensory), basic regulatory knowledge.
• Excellent communication skills, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, assertiveness, negotiating capability.
• A masters degree in Food Technology or an M. Sc. In Food Science.
• 10-15 years of experience in the food industry.

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The EHS head will be responsible for the implementation of Olams EHS policies across the 25 tier 1 manufacturing plans in Africa. The incumbent must have a detailed understanding of all the applicable laws and regulatory guidelines form the EHS perspective for all the plat locations. The role requires cross-functional co-ordination as many of the locations do not have dedicated EHS resources.  For Olam environment is a priority and you will be the driver of our efforts to reduce our carbon footprint. As the EHS Head, you will drive the legal compliance and the safety conscience of the organization along with the following key dimensions

Key Deliverables

Strategic Effectiveness

• Draft and publish a safety manual detailing the basics of Olam's EHS policy and procedures. This should incorporate applicable regulatory guidelines. 
• Design a robust audit system comprising of policy/management/system/infrastructure/process/practice regarding EHS.
• Give inputs to project teams during greenfield/brownfield projects to build in EHS compliance during design stage itself
• Audit project sites for compliance of EHS guidelines and work with project teams to enable compliance
• Coordinate with relevant agencies to ensure compliance to all governing laws

Operational Effectiveness

• Bring out new/unknown risks in new and existing facilities for management to act
• Ensure all Olam facilities are compliant to local/international regulatory norms
• Document areas of improvement, push the envelope when it comes to environmental safety and safe workplace practices
• Identify opportunities to eliminate not just reduce workplace hazards

Organizational Effectiveness

• Undertake and document audits based on the published audit criterion. Work independently for the audits or constitute cross-functional audit teams to conduct effective audits.
• Follow up on action plans on identified gaps as brought out during audits
• Coach and train plant EHS personnel to develop them as EHS leaders in their plants
• Undertake training of plant personnel to ensure safety requirements and the right knowledge is transferred to the lowest level in the plant operations

Requirements

• Engineering degree in mechanical/electrical/chemical
• Total of 10-15 years of industry experience
• Initial experience in maintenance/projects in a large manufacturing set-up will be preferred.
• At least five years of experience in leading the EHS function of a large corporation in national/regional role
• Ability to network, excellent communication skills (both written and verbal) and people skills.
• Ability to persevere and stay focused in the face of priority conflict with a peer group
• Leverage key stakeholders to move the EHS agenda forward.