Quality Control Manager

Our client within the FMCG industry is looking for an experienced Quality control manager to join their team.
**Requirements**:
- Diploma/Degree in Food Technology/Food Science.
- Experience in the food industry.
- Knowledge of food safety management systems.
- Understand HACCP principles.
- Familiar with microbiological testing and standards.
- Managerial skills to ensure the effectiveness of staff.
- Detail orientated.
- Advanced skills with MS Word and MS Excel.
- Firm and strict concerning general compliance in any food safety and quality matters.
- Ability to implement new systems, procedures, and processes.
Core tasks will include:
- Quality assurance of Wheat
- Quality assurance of Products
- Quality assurance of Operations
- Laboratory management
- Assist with the upkeep and management of the Food Safety system
- Quality Audits
- General quality management
- Management of Quality Staff
**Breakdown of duties**:
- Manage staff of such a nature that it will be a win-win situation for the employee and the company;
give good leadership.
- Good communication with staff, keeping them informed of company matters and working detail. Thorough feedback to management.
- Good planning, taking initiative, and creating systems.
- Recruitment and Training people to do tasks well, cross-training
- Performance appraisals
- Manage leave schedule so that the quality of the product does not suffer
- Report writing on QA-related issues
- Complete all quality &
food safety-related deviations
- Perform specific internal audits as per management requests and specifications
- Perform specific external audits (suppliers, customers) as per management requests
- Perform annual product mock recall exercises
- Check up and monitor that all regular food safety tasks of different departments are performed within specification and schedule
- Ensure that the food safety system at our company is adhered to according to schedule, documents and activities i.E training and liaison.
- Organizing and preparations for third-party food safety audits
- Attend food safety team meetings
- Be familiar with production flow process and hazard analysis (HACCP)
- Ensure the fumigation schedule is kept up to date
- Perform and/ or arrange regular maintenance on all laboratory equipment as per schedule
- Perform and/or organize that all calibration of laboratory equipment will happen as per schedule
- Ensure that the laboratory and all the equipment will always be functional in a clean and neat state as per food safety requirements
- Calibrations and laboratory equipment are to be done on a daily basis
- Check up on production quality aspects as per management requirements. Must be done thoroughly and sufficiently as per management specifications.
- Check up on distribution quality aspects as per management requirements. Must be done thoroughly and sufficiently as per management specifications.
- Assist with inquiries and processing of customer complaints. To be done thoroughly and sufficiently.
- Ensure that all staff use the correct documentation.
- Pest control system;
monitor and liaise withpest control company.
- Assist with food safety standards to all deviations as operations request.
- Client questionnaires are to be completed as required by the client.
- Assist clients with relevant quality and food safety queries through relevant communications channels.
- Be familiar with the complete production process as well as the production sampling process.
- Daily testing and reporting of flour done correctly according to standards, 4005 Laboratory Daily Flour and Wheat Samples.
- C.O.A testing and compilation according to standards and customer requirements, 3010 Certificate of Analysis, 1025 Certificate of Analysis procedure
- Monitor, control, and follow-up performance of non-conformance issues, 4012 Product Non-Conformance Log
- Revise and update product documents timeously when needed.
- Assist and oversee all microbiological testing to be done as required.
- Assist and oversee all daily testing of daily samples to be recorded daily.
- Assist and oversee all daily wheat intake, wheat management, and hectolitre to be updated as required.
- Daily Final Product Release Certificate 4022 done correctly according to standards.
- Analyse and interpret all lab results and tests to gain the necessary information to make reasonable decisions.
- Be familiar with all Product Specifications along with the relevant parameters of each product.
- Assist and oversee all wheat intake testing according to the correct standards, 4021 Wheat Acceptance and 1001 Wheat intake Procedure
- Oversee for correct sampling according to standards, 3001 Wheat Sampling.
- Confirmation of wheat supplier quality certificates. Must be done correctly for every parameter.
- Approval/Rejection of incoming Wheat loads.Performing any other task as discussed and agreed upon with management