Quality Assurance Manager

Parle Agro Pvt Ltd; Mumbai; On-site; INR 800,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading beverage company in Mumbai is seeking a Quality Assurance Manager to oversee quality management processes and training. The ideal candidate should have a degree in Food Technology and 10-12 years of experience, including auditing and training in food industries. Responsibilities include driving quality standards across manufacturing locations and ensuring compliance with food safety regulations. The role demands a strong understanding of food safety standards and auditing skills.

Qualifications

• 10-12 years of experience in related fields.
• Experience as a Lead Auditor in Food Safety Management Systems.
• Minimum 5 years of auditing and training in food industries.

Responsibilities

• Drive 'Quality Awareness' culture across the beverage value chain.
• Implement PAPL quality standards at company and franchisee plants.
• Monitor and assess process capabilities across plants.
• Conduct value-added audits and training.

Skills

Auditing

Training

Food Safety Standards

Quality Management

Regulatory Awareness

Education

Graduate in Food Technology

Job description

Graduate in Food Technology, Food Science, Dairy Science, Dairy Technology, Food Microbiology, and Food Biochemistry. Min 10 -12 yrs experience.

Completed Lead Auditor training in various Food Safety Management Systems

Auditing and Training experience of minimum 5 years in food industries

Work experience in Beverage/ Packaged drinking water/ Certification bodies, consulting bodies

Quality Auditors / Trainers from Beverage / Packaged Drinking Water Industries.

Sound knowledge of Food Safety Standards like HACCP, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, BRC, etc

Regulatory awareness. Understanding of Food Safety laws, expertise in food safety based standards, HACCP / ISO 22000 /FSSC 22000 implementation.

Auditing and Training skills on ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000.

Coordinating and Conducting Value added audits and training of the Beverage Manufacturing Units of the company.

Follow up for effective closure of identified nonconformities in a timely manner

• To drive the ‘Quality Awareness’ culture across value chain for Beverages.
• To drive Quality goals/KRA’s and achieve the set targets year on year.
• To identify, plan, document and manage the practices, activities and resources needed to meet quality Goals and objectives in manner that enables management to enable Quality performance
• To Implement PAPL quality standards for raw materials, packaging materials and finished products at all company owned plants and franchisee plants so as to adhere to PAPL guidelines/specification/requirements
• To drive the quality system across the manufacturing locations for conformance to specifications of the finished goods leaving the plant premises
• To monitor, assess and improve process capabilities across plants
• To carry out corrective actions for observations by HO- Quality audit across the value chain- plants, vendors -raw-materials, packaging materials
• Analyzing Quality Index based on market sample analysis results and drives CAP for the continual improvement of quality index with proper root cause analysis
• Implementation of Consumer response system mechanism, liasoning with plant QA for resolution of consumer complaints
• To impart training to quality managers at the plant and executives in HO
• To select/recruit QA personnel at plant- HO based on evaluation of competencies