- Maintain and improve/automate/digitize as needed, the Quality Control Management System (QCMS) to manage product quality and conformance in accordance with JDE guidelines and product specifications.
- Ensure Food Safety of all manufactured products by implementing the relevant JDE and legal /certification requirements (e.g. HACCP and FSSC 22000) and by continuous verification of the compliance and effectiveness of installed systems.
- Provide expertise and timely support to all functions with regard to Quality, Product Safety and technical issues arising in Operations during day-to-day business.
- Lead /participate in continuous improvement initiatives against Quality KPI's (consumer, trade and/or customer complaints, Right First Time (RFT) and specification critical to quality product and process parameters).
- Lead corrective and preventive actions (CAPA) arising from different sources, such as
- Consumer and customer complaints
- deficiencies in product conformance (RFT)
- audits
- Quality Incidents
- Implement Statistical Process Control where appropriate to improve compliance to specification measured by capability indices for critical to quality product and process parameters
- Embed the use of problem-solving and progressive quality tools including root cause analysis (RCA), Kaizen, FMEA by providing training and evaluation of application
- Participate in plant initiatives representing quality function to assure quality risk assessment and mitigation plans are considered to guarantee a successful start-up and transfer to operations. As part of the team manage the verification of quality KPIs for the project
- Liaise effectively with external vendors as part of vendor management program with a focus on reducing vendor non-conformities which may impact manufacturing efficiency and waste
- Check compliance to standards by regular GMP, HACCP, Halal and internal audits.
- To lead the continuous improvement on GMP, sanitation and zoning.
- Support JDE internal and vendor management program as qualified auditor
Leadership:
- Support Manufacturing Operating System (MOS) activities to deliver Food Safety/Quality Culture engagement and ongoing improvements Verify implementation of actions including lessons learned from other manufacturing plants. Drive horizontal expansion of improvement ideas in the plant across lines and embed in OPLs or standards
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