Quality Supervisor - Upington Dried Fruit Plant at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for:

• We are looking for a Quality Control/Assurance Supervisor to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located at the Upington Plant and reporting to the Quality Assurance & Food Safety Manager. To motivate and guide a team of Lab Technicians in order to achieve required outputs against cost, quality, service and people. In addition a Quality Assurance Supervisor must have the ability to conduct trouble shooting and lead improvement projects to be able to deliver better than planned results as well as support with customer complaints and questionnaires and root cause analysis.

The successful candidate will also be responsible for the following:

• To manage the laboratory testing as well as the staff compliment in the laboratories to ensure that the daily/weekly/monthly plan is on target.
• To ensure the optimum utilisation of shift labour by effective labour planning and training and development of employees
• Micro analysis in house and manage external lab results.
• To follow up on daily NCRs and ensure that the correct process is followed as per procedure including the signing off of NCRs
• To track effectiveness of product holds by ensuring communication with relevant teams.
• To attend daily shift
• To ensure packaging quality is in place per shift: weigh control checks, packet quality assessment, case counts, date code checks during the shift.
• To sign off Lab calibration checks.
• Provide feedback monthly on training and support requirements.
• To manage Allergen changes
• To ensure food safety is maintained through CP and CCP verifications and audits.
• To ensure quality through auditing, investigations, troubleshooting, proposing corrective actions, and coordinating projects to foster continuous improvement.
• To ensure that AIB, food safety and quality standards are maintained throughout.
• The jobholder must ensure the achievement of PDR goals. (Key performance areas)
• To conduct job observations for improvement.
• To manage career development discussions.
• Compliance to PEM, Cleaning and sanitation program
• Consolidation of lab results

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role

• Relevant degree or diploma
• Computer literate, MS Office.
• Communication and Leadership Skills
• Food Safety & Quality Systems
• Science and Technology expertise.
• FMCG Environment
• Quality Systems Management.
• Quality Information Management.
• Quality Assurance.
• Understanding of Manufacturing Quality Standards.
• Food Safety and Hygiene.
• Employee relations.
• Change management
• Integrity
• Participative Management
• Adaptability
• Excellence
• Delegation
• Verbal communication
• Attention to detail
• Escalation