Job offer: Quality Assurance Manager


Announced
23/11/20241 day ago
Job Status
Full Time
Job Type
Employee
Expiration Date
22/12/2024 28 days left
Job Category
Job Location
Job Title
Quality Assurance Manager
Job Presentation
Company Profile

Legendary Foods is a food-tech alternative protein business based in Ghana on a mission to produce West & Central Africa's most accessible, most nutritious, and most sustainable form of animal protein, protein-based FMCG products and protein ingredients using advanced insect agriculture to rear palm larvae sustainably. With offices currently in Accra & Kumasi, Legendary Foods seeks to advance its technology, launch new products and penetrate additional markets across Africa & beyond.


  • Location: Lashibi, Accra
  • Start Date: As soon as possible
  • Legendary Foods is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Quality Manager to oversee all aspects of quality assurance and control for our cookie and condiment manufacturing facility. The ideal candidate will be a results-driven leader with a proven track record in managing robust quality systems, ensuring product quality and safety, and driving continuous improvement. The Quality Manager will play a critical role in implementing quality processes across raw material validation, in-process controls, finished product testing, and corrective actions - safeguarding product conformity to specifications. You will collaborate cross-functionally to optimize production efficiency while scaling quality excellence alongside business growth.

    Responsibilities

  • Manage a team of at least 7 members to prepare products, product quality and manage inventory Disposition non-conforming inventory - reject, rework or approve with deviation
  • Incorporate customer complaints, feedback into quality enhancements
  • Drive food safety culture through training and awareness
  • Develops, implements, and manages processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability prior to delivery
  • Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products
  • Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues
  • Spearhead establishment, implementation and maintenance food safety systems
  • Train and retrain processing staff, implement food safety protocol changes across a team and departments
  • Reviews client, customer, and user feedback
  • Maintains compliance with federal, state, local, and organizational laws, regulations,guidelines, and policies
  • Running quality control checks and updating quality assurance documentations
  • Liaise with labs to conduct necessary lab tests
  • Document & organize information such as: health & safety instances, quality management system protocols, protocol changes, customer feedback
  • Innovate packaging ideas to enhance shelf lives of all SKUs
  • Innovate process to optimize efficiency of personnel, ingredients & time
  • Provide support to product development staff
  • Provide support to business development operations

  • Education Required: First Degree

    Requirements
    • A degree in Food science and technology, Food processing engineering or any related field with 5 or more years of work experience in food processing, food and beverage industry
    • Must have a strong leadership experience
    • Strong understanding of food safety principles
    • Running food quality control checks and updating quality assurance
    • documentations
    • Implementation of food quality management systems such as HACCP and ISO
    • Strong problem solving skills relating to food processing, quality and safety issues
    • Strong usage ability of Word and Excel
    • Must have experience managing a team for a minimum of 12 months
    • Must have strong verbal and oral communication
    • Must have the ability to report on one’s activities in written and electronic format and the activities of their team
    • Must have customer service experience
    • Must be self-disciplined and have high integrity
    • Food safety certifications
    • Ability to work with little or no supervision
    • ​If you're a results-oriented professional passionate about driving operational excellence in a dynamic production environment, we invite you to apply for this challenging and rewarding opportunity. This is a start-up environment and therefore creativity and resourcefulness are required. Please also note that we require interdisciplinary work to ensure overall company success.

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