Looking for a Quality Assurance Professional to lead overall Quality Assurance and processes by closely coordinating with the Manufacturing Operations, R&D and Procurement for a Food Manufacturing client

Experience & Education:

1. University degree majoring in food industry;

2. M. Sc / M. Tech / Food Technology/Dairy Chemistry/Dairy Technology/ Microbiology

3. 12-14 years- experience in food industry; 4-5 years- QA experience in dairy/non-dairy industry;

4. Must have handled leadership roles for substantial period

5. Be familiar with ISO22000 / QMS / any other renowned Quality System;

6. Be familiar with India food industry, understand rules/regulations on food

Responsibilities:

1. Daily Operations:

- Quality control and analysis/ decision on incoming raw materials, packaging material, WIP and finished products;

- Control & check on testing equipment for production process parameters;

- Co-ordinate QA related activities;

- Should be conversant with testing protocols & instruments used for testing of Raw Materials, Packaging Materials and Finished Goods.

- Co-ordinate with production, procurement and logistics to ensure that all products are produced in line with QA process and requirement;

2. Food Regulations:

- To keep on updating various rules and regulations and ensure the compliances

3. Product Standards:

- Improve and update product standard

- High quality standards of finished product.

- Minimizing product & process deviation

- Minimizing customer complaints

- Improvement in Monthly QA Capability and Quality Rating indices

- Ensure that production is in line with standard and make rectifications when there is incompliance;

- Monitor the consistency on performance of product quality and process parameters on a regular basis and initiate improvement plans using the external expertise, R&D and reference information literatures available

4. Vendor Management

- Evaluation and qualification of vendors for raw materials and packing materials.

- Conduct periodic audits for Vendors and ensure the vendor follow legal compliance and Company SOPs and protocols

5. Third Party Management

- Be responsible for Quality Assurance and process of third party manufacturing

6. Hygiene (GMP, GHP) and CIP

- Be responsible for overall GMP, GHP, and CIP of Plant;

- Check hygiene status of the whole plant as per standards

7. ISO And QMS

- With overall responsibility for ISO 22000, EMS, QMS, HACCP, WHQ Audits

8. Investigations and Product Complaints

- To be an escalation point for all matters related to testing and quality assurance Improvement.

- Implement steps required to improve the processes.

- Investigation and approval/ rejection of the batch, performance of product quality

- Handling investigation and support to investigation & compliance for response to market complaints.

9. SOPs

- Prepare and implement SOPs for all process

- Ensure proper communication of SOPs to concerned Departments.

10. Team Management

- Responsible for Defining QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects.

- Ensuring that the teams adhere to the principles, guidelines and best practices of the QA strategy as defined.

- Manage training and continuous learning of QA Associates by means of short courses, conferences, meet-ups, certifications, etc.

- Provide leadership and technical expertise.

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