About the position
Our client based in Johannesburg, specializes in , packaging for the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, household, and personal care markets.
Purpose of the Role:
To ensure products manufactured conforms to quality, safety and reliability standards
Role: Quality Control Supervisor / Metrologist
Location: Johannesburg : Isando
Industry: Manufacturing - Packaging
Qualification:
- Must have Grade 12, Matric or NQF4 equivalent qualification.
- Must have a clear criminal record.
- Certificate in Quality Control
- Minimum 8 years’ experience in the manufacturing industry
- NQF 4 - Supervisory Management Qualification
Skills:
- People management skillsAttention to detail
- Problem solving skills
Competencies:
- Technical knowledge of process, inclusive of equipment, raw materials.
- Relevant quality system and certification
- Diversity Management
- Conflict Management
Decision Making
- Responsible for quality related issues linked to colour and product defects.
- Able to suspend employees where either employee behaviour or intoxication poses a risk to colleagues and or equipment.
- Able to make good business – aligned judgement decisions at an operational level
Accountability
- Responsible for all activities linked to position as defined.
- Ensures that the structure for escalation of responsibility is effective.
Communication
- Report on appropriate forum issues requiring action / action from other departments / instances of major downtime.
- Shift handovers are conducted daily.
Quality Control Planning:
- Develop and implement quality control procedures and protocols to ensure compliance with company standards and regulatory requirements.
- Conduct regular audits
- Develop and maintain quality control records, including documentation of test results, inspection reports. and corrective actions taken.
Quality Control Inspection
- Apply the company’s quality principles and standards
- Maintain Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP).
- Conduct regular inspections of production processes, products and material to ensure compliance with quality standards.
- Conduct testing and evaluation of products to ensure they meet quality standards and regulatory requirements.
- Identify and document non-conformance and implement corrective action.
- Data Capture, analysis, manipulation, conceptualization and communication, including statistical control and trending.
- Verify critical dimensions in tooling from initial design through to industrialization, inclusive of product qualification against the sustained parameters.
- Propose, identify, define and conduct appropriate techniques of measurement, including but not limited to tolerance, sampling techniques, standards and uncertainties.
- Qualify measuring equipment
Personnel Management:
- Responsible to lead, motivate and train subordinates
- Responsible to lead, motivate, train and manage subordinates.
- Responsible to manage employees in terms of attendance, timesheets, disciplinary code, policies and procedures and rostering of tea & lunch breaks.
- Ensure that packers and operators record and report rejects and problems immediately.
- Monitor production output in terms of job specifications, production plan, machine specifications.
- Ensure control and recording of output, down times and deviations.
- Hold regular performance reviews to discuss performance against objectives, counselling employees where performance is not in line with the standards.
- Motivate team to develop with a focus on ongoing improvement. Implement good ideas, give credit where due, support, counsel and discipline where necessary. Administer return to work interviews.
- Practical hands-on passing on of skill (“Show and do”).
- Guide team to ensure that members deliver output and performance of acceptable standard of own accord.
- Communicate and confirm values and goals and clarify roles on an ongoing basis.
- Proactively communicate consequences of misconduct to team members.
- Conduct discipline and counselling where necessary, staying within the limits of orderly actions in terms of the disciplinary code.
- Train and mentor relevant stakeholders in “industrialized” measuring techniques and sustainable metrology processes.
Customer Service
- Responsible to customer inquires regarding, product quality and provide resolutions to customer complaints.
Reporting and Administration
- Ensure shift handover meeting takes place daily.
- Ensure daily audits on quality / visual inspections and housekeeping take place.
Health and Safety
- Ensure and enforce that aspects in area of responsibility conform to Health and safety requirements.
- Maintain housekeeping standards in area of responsibility (e.g. ensure cleanliness assigned machines and areas).
- Work safely and report on safety hazards or issues.
Report any accidents, incidents and near misses
Food Safety Systems Certification - FSSC
- Food safety standards are site specific and at these sites employees should:
- Apply the site’s food safety principles and standards.
- Report any food safety hazards or issues to your Supervisor/Manager.
- Comply to and maintain all GMPs (Good Manufacturing Practices) in relation to the Company’s FSMS (Food Safety Management System).
Self Development and Growth
- Realistic assessment of own strengths and development areas and undertake actions to address weaknesses.
- Stay up-to-date with changes in regulations and industry standards and implement changes as required.
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Desired Skills:
- Quality Control Supervisor
- Health & safety
- Develop and implement quality control procedures
