Job Description
- Application Deadline: Fri, 7 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT
- Position: Quality Assurance Officer (Abeokuta)
- Job Type Full Time
- Qualification BA/BSc/HND
- Experience 2 - 3 years
- Location Ogun
- City Abeokuta
- Job Field Manufacturing 
The ideal candidate will be responsible for the day-to-day implementation and compliance to all product and process specifications, as well as food and environmental safety.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Ensure compliance to quality policy, procedures, work instructions, and documented quality systems. In addition, ensure compliance to statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Carry out inspection upon arrival of raw materials, packaging materials and inputs against specifications and submit reports after inspection.
- Ensure all quality procedures for fruit washing and storage are observed.
- Check the peeling and cutting quality, and complete the quality control sheet at Processing.
- Check the packing quality and complete the quality control sheet at Packing.
- Conduct quality control on pallets in accordance to the finished goods control procedure.
- Ensure daily calibration and verification of all measuring equipment in the laboratory and in the factory.
- Monitor and control all storage areas and conditions.
- Continuous training and coaching of factory employees on Food safety and quality issues.
- Fulfillment of housekeeping and environmental standards.
- Report any non-compliance detected in relation to both the Quality and Food safety management system to the Quality manager.
- Report immediately any non-conformity on product quality detected to the QA manager.
- Report immediately any breakage, damage or malfunction of equipment to the QA manager.
- Ensure samples for analyses are properly taken for each batch.
- Manage and maintain all tools and equipment for carrying out quality control checks: in the laboratory and in the factory.
- Ensure proper and prompt filing of records: maintain organized and accessible records for analysis and reference.
- Ensure correct traceability of products and records.
- Supporting process improvements throughout the testing and quality assurance processes
- Adhere to all health and safety guidelines in the factory.
Supervisory duties:
- Appraise the performance of immediate team members, identify their training needs and organize or recommend appropriate training for them.
- Administer disciplinary measures of immediate team members in accordance with the company’s disciplinary procedures
- Interpret policies and procedures to immediate team members and where necessary, consult superior or appropriate departments.
Educational Qualifications, Experience & Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree / HND or higher in Food Science, Agribusiness or a related field.
- At least two (2) years of professional or sector/industry experience.
- Flexibility based on factory production schedule.
- Knowledge of the use of measuring equipment.
- Knowledge of GMPs
- Knowledge of the HACCP system
- Excellent planning, analytical and organizational skills
- Ability to work with little or no supervision.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Applications.
- Integrity and accountability
- Fluency in English – excellent communication skills, both oral and written.