Quality Assurance Manager at a Fast-Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) Company – Michael Stevens Consulting Full Time

Job Title: Quality Assurance Manager

Location: Nigeria

Job Description

• The Quality Assurance Manager ensures that the company adheres to all applicable laws and regulations, including health and safety, environmental protection, and consumer rights
• The Manager will develop, protect, and audit all processes that may impact certain qualities. This monitoring ensures that customers will receive nothing but top-notch products

Job Responsibilities

• Devise procedures to inspect and report quality issues.
• Assure the reliability and consistency of production by checking processes and final output.
• Facilitate proactive solutions by collecting and analyzing quality data.
• Review current standards and policies.
• Keep records of quality reports, statistical reviews, and relevant documentation
• Ensure all legal standards are met.
• Communicate with external quality assurance officers during on-site inspections.
• Supervise and guide inspectors, technicians, and other staff.
• Monitor all operations that affect quality.
• Carries out adequate testing/analysis of pre-purchased samples of packaging materials as well as ensuring practical test/machine trial of the packaging materials at the user’s end.
• Coordinates finished goods audit at the factories as well as market/trade/warehouse audit at the area offices.
• Analysis of packaging materials as part of packaging material development to establish specification.
• Coordinate timely delivery of product samples to NAFDAC for analysis to facilitate registration/renewal process.
• Provide support in monitoring new packaging materials development to ensure compliance to set standards/regulatory requirement.

Qualification and Experience

• Candidates should possess a First Degree.
• Minimum of 15 years’ experience in food/beverage production and quality

The Person Must:

• Have good knowledge of QMS/ISO 22K, FSMS, FSSC.
• Be knowledgeable in analytical procedures, sophisticated laboratory equipment of GLC, HPLC, Spectrophotometer.
• Have strong attention to detail and organizational skills.
• Have strong critical thinking skills.
• Have good interpersonal and communication skills.
• Have strong technical skills, knowledge of databases and report generation software.
• Have good understanding of quality assurance processes and standards.
• Have good leadership and teaching skills.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.