Assistant Manager-Quality

Job Purpose: To ensure adherence to defined quality standards for products, processes, and systems and work towards overall quality improvement for the factory within company guidelines and Regulatory requirements

Principal Accountabilities:

• To ensure adherence of Process Quality Manual guidelines & FSSC 22000 criteria in the factory.
• Responsible for management of layered auditing system & execution of internal audit for Food Safety Management System & ISO 22000
• Responsible for reporting MIS (Management information system ) wrt Quality aspects like COPQ , Internal & external complaints trend & PQRS month on month
• To ensure GHP , GMP & GLP compliance and have basic knowledge on Regulatory requirements of Plant
• Adept at handling the manufacturing of new product as per company standards while a new product launch & improving the existing range.
• To ensure SLA with outsourced activity like Pest control , Cleaning & Gardening agencies and month on month performance evaluation of agencies against SLA
• To ensure R&R of chemists with respect to analytical testing of materials
• To ensure R&R of workman deployed at CTQ (critical to quality) station wrt defect identification & rejection.
• To provide guidance for the proper management, up-keep & control of Quality lab , lab equipment & incoming inspection of material
• To lead the adherence of Plant Quality management system & SOP at each node of process in plant
• To ensure in process CTQ (Critical to quality) controls & FG testing compliance with reliability.
• To develop SOPs, work instructions and formats for defining quality parameters
• Ensure Quality compliance requirements of the Unit:
• Implement Food Safety standards
• Hazard identification & risk assessment
• Ensure compliance requirements are met according to Foods Safety Act 2006
• Conduct RM/PM/FG testing as per FSSAI requirement
• Design, develop and implement Quality Assurance systems like ISO 9001 & FSSC 22000 under guidance of Central resources
• To improve Quality matrices like PQRS Score & Customer complaints trend.
• Responsible for handling external customer complaints & submission of PRAR with adequacy of corrective actions.

Knowledge & Skill:

• Knowledge of ISO 22000 , FSMS , FMEA , 6M , 7 QC Tools , Quality Circle , Food safety act 2006 , FSSAI guidelines & requirement for Food Industry, 5s & Basic Statistics
• ISO 22000/ FSSC 22000 FSMS lead auditor
• Exposure to internal or external audits
• Knowledge of SAP and similar systems.