Our client within Manufacturing are currently seeking a Quality Assurance Manager - Foods and Packaging

Minimum Qualifications

Matric
ISO 9000 or FS22000 Qualification
Quality Assurance Qualifications – Certification – Diploma or Degree
Drivers License
2 – 5 Years Management
5 – 10 Years Quality Assurance – Packaging or Foods
English and Afrikaans Fluent

Daily responsibilities:

1. Ensure that their office as well as those of the Graphic Designer and Quality Assurance Assistant is kept neat and tidy
2. Communicate with clients telephonically or via email regarding quality issues. (Upon instruction and guidance from one or both of the managing directors)
3. Assist in sending artwork and fact files to clients for approval, as well as following up with clients regarding the approval.
4. Assist in preparing and sending samples to clients as well as continuously following up with the client regarding the samples they received
5. Assist the Marketing Manager with all her daily tasks.
6. Assist the Marketing Manager in preparing for meetings or visits to clients
7. Assist the Marketing Manager in organizing functions for the company
8. To stand in for the Marketing Manager if she is unavailable
9. Keep up to date with current client projects
10. Show an interest in all aspects of the Marketing department
11. Look for opportunities to assist in the marketing functions and make recommendations
12. Assist in updating the Sample Matrix and help in insuring that the units prepare these samples
13. Make sure that the sample room is neat and tidy
14. Issuing positives on a daily basis to the production team, after the positives have been compared to the fact file and the customer sample in the production box
15. Approving samples at the start of each production run for all the units, as well as approving samples for long production runs on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday
16. Approving samples after hours when production needs to commence on a night shift
17. Approving samples over weekends, when there are change-overs on the machines
18. Performing adhesion tests on precious metal gold products at the beginning of a production run
19. Attending the unit manager meetings to follow up on samples that they are preparing as well as find out what they may require from the Marketing department
20. Doing daily quality checks of night shifts production in all the units. Identifying quality or production issues, communicating same to the managing directors, quality manager and unit manager and assisting in rectifying actions.
21. Compile a Weekly Quality report which outlines all the quality related issues identified in all the units as well as including the outcome or rectifying actions taken.
22. Arrange that the couriers collect parcels and pack samples to be sent to clients
23. Keep all product boxes up to date – This entails the following:
• Opening a product box that includes a product file that contains the product’s positives, artwork and fact sheet signed by the client, a copy of the fact sheet and specification sheet, the pallet label & packaging specification of the product as well as the signed customer sample and the latest production sample. Each time a new product is developed or an adjustment is made to an existing product, a new product box must be opened that includes all of the above-mentioned items.