Job Summary
This position is responsible for establishing, maintaining, and continuously improving food safety and quality systems across the manufacturing sites and vendor manufacturing sites. The role ensures compliance with global regulatory, customer, and internal standards, while driving consistency, product integrity, supplier performance improvement.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and oversee implementation of Food Safety Management Systems, GMP, and Quality Standards at the manufacturing plant.
- Plan, conduct, and monitor Food Safety and Risk Management Audits for suppliers, warehouses, and manufacturing plant.
- Manage and guide executives and quality staff in routine monitoring, documentation, and verification activities pertaining to the product and ingredients quality
- Drive investigation, root cause analysis, and CAPA implementation for customer complaints and non-conformances.
- Review and approve product specifications, COAs, and release reports to ensure compliance with customer and regulatory requirements.
- Evaluate the adequacy of quality assurance standards and GMP at the manufacturing site
- Review the implementation and efficiency of the routine product quality and its inspection systems.
- Identify and implement continuous improvement plans associated with the processing plant process and product quality consistency
- Conduct the GMP and food safety training to the employees and its efficacy analysis.
- Effective management of regulatory/customer/internal and other third part quality audits.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Chemistry, Microbiology or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in Quality Assurance, Food Safety, Production Quality, or similar roles in the food or FMCG industry.
- Familiarity with HACCP, PRPs, GMPs, FSSC 22000, and food safety regulatory frameworks.
- Experience implementing or maintaining Quality Management Systems.
- Analytical and problem solving skills.