Quality Assurance Executive - Lab

RESPONSIBILITIES/ KEY ACTIVITIES

1. People & Capability Development: Promote quality and food safety awareness within the laboratory and factory. Support training, competency development, and qualification of laboratory personnel.

2. Quality System Management: Implement and maintain laboratory procedures, methods, and quality documentation. Support continuous improvement of laboratory systems and practices. Ensure proper record keeping and data integrity. Lead the validation, verification, and implementation of laboratory test methods

3. Laboratory Management: Manage day-to-day laboratory operations to ensure timely and accurate testing. Oversee microbiological, chemical, and physical analyses. Investigate out- of-specification results and support corrective and preventive actions.Ensure laboratory resources, reagents, and consumables are available to support testing activities. Monitor laboratory KPIs and report performance trends. Support Factory Quality Manager in driving Cost of Quality initiatives through effective laboratory operations, wastage reduction, process improvement, and optimization of testing resources.

4. Laboratory Equipment & Sample Management: Manage laboratory equipment calibration, verification, maintenance, and troubleshooting to ensure reliability of test results. Manage laboratory assets throughout their lifecycle, including equipment acquisition, qualification, inventory control, maintenance, and replacement planning. Manage laboratory internal control plan, sample retentions and traceability. Coordinate external laboratory testing where required.

5. Laboratory Safety: Maintain laboratory safety programs, including chemical handling, storage, labelling, and waste disposal. Conduct routine laboratory safety inspections and ensure timely closure of identified gaps. Support risk assessments, incident investigations, and corrective actions. Actively participate in Safety Committee activities and safety improvement initiatives.

6. Compliance & Auditing: Support internal and external audit readiness including customer, certification, and Group audits by ensuring laboratory records, testing data, and documentation are accurate, complete, and readily available.

7. Additional responsibilities: Serve as the document controller of the Factory.

8. Any other projects and tasks as reasonably required by the Company.