Role Purpose
This position is responsible for ensuring that raw materials, finished products, and packaging materials are of the highest quality through a well-designed process inspection and control program. The role holder also ensures that good manufacturing practices and food safety and hygiene standards are monitored and maintained as required.
Key Responsibilities
Raw/Packaging materials receipt and Analysis
- Timely and accurate receiving, sampling and analysis of raw materials, packaging materials, bulk and finished products against the set specifications.
- Ensuring proper segregation of rejected materials to prevent unintended mix up.
- Providing accurate information/analytical results leading to sound decisions on the approval or rejection of raw materials, packaging materials, intermediate bulk and finished products.
- Effectively implementing all approved procedures of sampling, specifications, analysis, and reporting for all samples.
- Overseeing offloading at the vehicles and other stores, to be able to sample further from initial hidden parts.
Finished Products monitoring
- Monitoring fortification of flour both maize and wheat products and reporting of any non-conformances.
- Carrying out organoleptic assessments of wheat, maize and porridge flour daily to verify performance.
- Identify and report all quality and food safety issues during daily operations.
- Ensuring all non-conforming products and reworks are handled as per the procedure to avoid unintended mix up.
Prerequisite Programs monitoring
- Monitor CCPs OPRPs and PRPs daily and report any deviations that might affect feed quality and safety.
- Conduct GMPs surveillance and correct abnormalities on the spot as well as guide production teams on Good Manufacturing Practices.
- Monitor pest control and ensure the pest citing sheets actions are closed on time.
- Conduct training awareness for GMPs, FSMS, and monitor adherence.
Food Safety Management System
- Implement ISO 22000 to ensure production of safe products.
- Ensure all quality records related to the food safety management system are updated on a daily basis including electronic records.
- Conduct internal audits, GMPs audits, Glass Audits when requested to audit.
Qualifications
- A minimum of Degree/Diploma in Food Science/Analytical Chemistry.
- Knowledge of QMS – HACCP and ISO – 22000
- Knowledge of chemical analysis and nutrition content of various raw materials
- Excellent organizational and time management skills.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- Good verbal communication.
Key Attributes/ Competencies
- Commercial acumen
- Lead change
- Drive execution
- Develop self and others
