The ideal candidate is a critical thinker who will proactively improve the quality systems of the company through internal audits, participation in process improvement programs, and interaction with key partners to obtain constructive feedback.
Quality Systems & Compliance:
- Support the maintenance and continuous improvement of the company's QMS in alignment with GFSI standards (e.g., BRCGS, IFS) and regulatory requirements.
- Assist in preparing for and coordinating internal, customer, and thirdparty audits.
- Track audit findings, corrective actions, and preventive measures to ensure timely closure.
General responsibilities:
- Taking care of all quality & food safety systems implementation in the related factory.
- Align and review with the site team in case of any quality or food safety issues, getting the correct RCA and CAPA in place
- Responsible for the release of lots (Final release) after checking it against customer specs, ensuring the food safety, physical, and microbiological results comply.
- Lead customer complaints investigations and share the related RCA and CAPA on time (work on any related actions and conduct the needed follow-ups with the assigned departments).
- Responsible for planning micro & chemical monitoring plans and their execution actions.
- Investigate all food safety accidents and ensure appropriate controls are implemented to prevent their recurrence, having the correct trend analyses in place to prevent the recurrence of the same incidents.
- Leader of the change management system and ensure its implementation.
- Responsible for the site QA department budget.
- Responsible for the development plans of the team.
- Responsible for the objectives of the team and their alignment with ofi's objectives.
- Food Safety team leader of the site, covering all the duties as required by BRC & ISO 2200 or delegating them accordingly.
- Laboratory manager of the site, covering all duties as required by ISO 17025 or delegating them accordingly.
- Ensure adequate analytical competence to perform the required analyses and adequate monitoring of the efficacy of rapid methods.
- Ensure the monitoring of key quality parameters by means of statistical process control.
- Lead the factory management review of quality (MRQ) and implementation of its CAPA.
- Ensure the readiness of site for all external compliance audit, customer visits & audits and reports to top management the gaps during the assessment of readiness to audit.
- Give guidance on the customers requirements based on historical data and current situation.
- Arrange with QC periodic monitoring of physical results water analysis
Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Bachelor of Sciences, Pharmacy or Medicine.
- 5 to 8 years of experience in Quality Assurance and Quality Control in food manufacturing.
- Knowledge and implementation of HACCP, GMP, QMS
- Open to new ideas and technologies as well as innovation in his current areas.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills with a demonstrated ability to effectively work with all managerial levels, and with external contacts.
- Strong analytical problem-solving skills with and ability to understand the key requirements in continuous improvement & carry out data analysis and data-based decision making.
- Team player, problem solving, learning ability, Effective computing, numeracy skills & Energetic
- Good coach and have skills of motivating & mentoring.
- Computer literacy Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Microsoft outlook
- Language Proficiency English fluency
- Ability to work under pressure and stress to deliver business goals
