Quality Assurance Officer - Manufacturing at ATC West Healthcare

QUALITY ASSURANCE OFFICER- MANUFACTURING

Our client, in the FMCG sector is hiring a Quality Assurance Officer who will be responsible for assessing and verifying that products meet the set standards. He/she will also be responsible for introducing, maintaining quality and right quantity control procedures.

Job Location: Limuru

 The Key areas of responsibility and duties include:

• Assist plant team in setting and maintaining quality objectives and assures plant quality objectives are being met.
• Assist in developing and maintaining new and existing food ingredient specifications.
• Assist in organizing and understanding customer satisfaction based upon product and service performance.
• Works with processing operators in identifying negative quality trends and repetitive defects.
• Develops and maintains documentation such as forms, policies and procedures related to food safety to keep up with changing requirements.
• Knows how to recognize, prevent and alleviate food safety hazards in the food plants.
• Participates in food safety audits.
• Reports processing problems or potential problems immediately to processing operators and QAS
• Follows work practices in Quality Assurance Manual and compares test results to standards.
• Monitors personal hygiene.
• Completes additional projects as assigned by supervisor.

 Minimum Qualifications

1. 2 Plus years of Quality Assurance experience preferably in the food industry
2. Bachelor degree in Food Science or related science field
3. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
4. Self-starter with demonstrated high level of initiative
5. PC Proficiency: Windows, MS Office (or equivalent software)
6. Ability to work under pressure and to react to situation with a strong sense of urgency.
7. Ability to work effectively both independently and within a team environment