QHSE Officer at Lesaffre

Job Description

• Reporting to the production manager of Lesaffre Kenya, you will oversee the safety, health environment, and quality assurance side.
• You will develop, manage, supervise, and coordinate work systems to ensure that the production and services of the company meet  Lesaffre Group safety and quality standards
• You will report and document all instances of non-compliance.

Key responsibilities :

HEALTH & SAFETY

• Incident management, investigation and documentation
• Managing the implementation and Sustenance of Management Systems
• Managing the maintenance of the legal register through engagement of local authorities (KEBS, DOSH, NEMA, and County Government) on permits, licenses and analysis reporting.
• Serve as the management representative to communicate all requirements and any changes of management systems.
• Ensure required standards of health and safety are always maintained in the company premises.
• Monitor compliance with the group safety requirements through effective management of plant maintenance/monitoring, emergency responses, product stewardship, Permit To Work.

QUALITY

• Control
  • Perform the quality control tests on raw materials, environment, final product according to the control plan.
  • Readjust with production, after validation with the formulator.
• Assurance
  • Follow- up on calibration schedules of machines and equipment with the production responsible and in the laboratory.
  • Act as a custodian of the organisation management systems - related documented and retained information.
  • Act as a liaison between LK and certification bodies, regulatory bodies, other interested parties in matters related to certification audits, statutory audits/inspections and customer audits.
  • Perform daily field presence to ensure hygiene, food safety and quality standards are met.
  • Participate in a validation of new raw  materials/packaging supplier.
  • Assist to handle all requests about non-conformities and deviations from suppliers.
  • Manage consumer/customer complaint and customer satisfaction program.
  • Establish corrective action plans and enforce implementation to reduce the number of customer and consumer complaints.
  • Perform supplier audits
  • Perform internal quality audits
• MANAGEMENT 
  • Represent our company in sector bodies and technical committees KEPSA, KAM, KEBS, NEMA, DOSH etc
  • Develop Quality and Food safety culture within the organisation, with training and awareness.
• REPORTING
  • Daily record & report to line manager every occurrence of quality control deviations or any remarkable event.
  • Identify issues and submit reports to the line manager on performance and progress.
  • Monthly report to functional Africa Quality Manager and whenever it’s necessary.

Qualifications

• After a bachelor's degree in food processing or agro-industrial technology, you worked 2 to 5 years in production/industry, which gave you extensive knowledge of quality management and food safety including preparation, handling, and storage of food.
• Our future QHSE Officer must have the following skills :

Soft skills:

• Hands on
• Problem-solving
• Attention to detail
• Teamwork
• Communication and interpersonal skills (feedback …)
• Self-motivated with a results-driven approach
• Organizational and leadership abilities
• Time-management abilities