Manager - Quality Assurance & Development Projects
About the Employer
- Keells Food Products PLC
Sri Lanka
Job Description
MANAGER – QUALITY ASSURANCE & DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
Keells Food Products PLC, a subsidiary of John Keells Holdings PLC (JKH), is the country’s market leader in processed meat products and has held this position for over three decades. Our company possesses ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System, ISO 22000:2018 Food Safety Management System, and ISO 45001:2018 Occupational Health & Safety Management System Certifications. The Company manufactures a range of sausages, meatballs, hams, crumbed products, and soya range products under the “Elephant House” and “Keells Krest” brands.
Job Responsibilities:
- Carry out physical, chemical and microbiological analysis on beverages and essential raw materials for proper quality assurance.
- Take corrective action and handle root cause analysis where necessary in order to ensure the quality standards are met as required.
- Continuous measurement and analysis of beverage quality parameters (Brix/ Carbonation/torque) to ensure final product quality.
- Ensure proper storage facilities are used to the optimum levels in order to maintain optimization of output volume.
- Delivering outcomes / trend analysis using microbiological data.
- Report deviations from clean and sanitized standards of any.
- Recommend corrective actions; Continuously monitor processes and update where necessary.
- Be in touch with regulatory bodies for new/improved processes.
- Bring to the notice of management and new standards which are applicable in order to ensure required standards are met.
- Create awareness of required hygiene levels to production personnel and conduct spot tests to test these conditions.
- Educate production personnel on negative effects of not meeting standards in order to ensure that all production personnel are aware of and adhere to necessary hygienic standards.
- Ensure GMPs are followed in all areas of the manufacturing process in order to eliminate any kind of food-related risks.
- Ensure current quality standards are adhered to; Responsible for identifying and creating awareness of any new standards relating to the industry.
- Control of monitoring & measuring equipment, including calibration of same on a pre-determined schedule.
Qualifications and Experiences:
- Bachelor’s degree in food science/ Bio Science or Agriculture with minimum of 5 years work experience in a FMCG manufacturing environment. Having lead auditor qualification would be an added advantage.
- Business understanding in Food and Beverage manufacturing & Quality Assurance; Global Industry trends in the FMCG Industry.
- Sound knowledge in Production systems, quality standards and systems, factory ordinance, food regulatory standards, food safety standards, health and safety systems, financial knowledge, modern process technology.
- Understanding and requirement fulfillment of Quality Management systems, Food safety management system, Occupational Health and Safety management system, Environmental Safety Management System, Energy Management System, Good Manufacturing Process and PRP, CCP, OPRP.
- Planning and control skills, organizing skills, communication skills, interpersonal relations, leadership and motivational skills, Ability to quickly adjust to changing business requirements.
Remuneration for the above position will be in accordance with the JKH Compensation and Benefits Policy.
If you are confident that you possess the above requirement, please send your CV, which includes the names of two non-related referees. Click on the advert now to join our team via Keells Food Products Careers site.
