Quality Assurance Manager II - Wadeville Beverages Plant at PepsiCo

Responsibilities

What we’re looking for

We are looking for a Quality Assurance Manager to join our dynamic team. The role is physically located in Wadeville, Gauteng (Beverages) and will be reporting into the Plant Manager.

The successful candidate will be responsible for the following:

• Lead Quality and Food safety agenda through effective implementation of PepsiCo standards and guidelines.
• Manage Quality and Food Safety inspections and follow-up on all non-conformances noted. Ensure that the Plant meets Food Safety for Maintenance and IPMJ AIB and FSSC 22 000 standards
• Develop capability, training and recruitment of QA and Food Safety employees to perform their duties in their defined roles
• Impart necessary trainings on quality and food safety requirements to operations team to perform their duties effectively on lines.
• Overall management of Laboratory operations, including communication to the business regarding in plant quality concerns
• Plan and maintain annual Quality and Food safety and Sanitation budget and CAPEX (Capital expenditure)
• Maintenance and calibration of on-line instrumentation and key analytical instruments in the Laboratory,
• Quality Assurance of all incoming Raw Materials used by Production.
• Practical creativity to identify trends with the ability to apply new but practical solutions to issues.
• On-line technical support and guidance.
• Influencing others to build rapport with contacts and gain support and commitment for problem solving.
• Team commitment to work with colleagues in all functions to deliver operational excellence.
• Analytical trouble shooting and guidance to production and laboratory personnel to ensure finished product quality
• Ensure and maintain integrity of all Quality data.
• Ensure to have up to date HACCP program in place with real controls on CCPs to avoid any Food Safety risk and update program
• for all innovations (technology or product) with proper risk assessment
• Compliance of quality aspects for any new or modified material or new equipment installation (raw or packaging) during R&D trial
• Develop the suppliers for PEPSICO QA and Food Safety program requirements.
• Ensure sampling and evaluation of in-market product and assess the health of on shelf product with challenges and action plans
• Develop and align customer complaint handling procedure and ensure in time closure and tracking of complaints with feedback.
• Share the challenge and action plan for improvement come out of market complaints
• Manages suppliers on site to perform according to the SLA between Pepsico and supplier.
• Compiling and distribution of Quality Assurance reports and attend daily, monthly KPI meetings with action plans to improve performance
• Engaging with R&D and assisting with execution on new product development
• Stop production lines where product integrity or any deviation is at risk
• Organising of staff to ensure business support
• Ordering of critical consumables as per procurement policy
• Rejection / Approval of raw materials
• Rejection / Approval of final product
• Stop factory in case of core problems, for example poor quality water
• Staff management — leave, discipline etc
• Ensuring the promotion of awareness of customer requirements throughout the organisation

Qualifications

What will qualify you for the role

• National Diploma in Biotechnology or Food technology
• Experience in process of Food and Beverages (FMCG) Computer literacy
• Food Safety, Quality, HACCP, VACCP and TACCP
• GMP and Cleaning and Sanitation
• Microbiology
• Chemistry
• Supervisory skills