Assistant Manager - Quality - FMCG

Assistant Manager - Quality

Experience: 5.0 - 10.0 Years

Location : Tiruchirappalli/Trichy

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.