Quality Assurance Team Leader - Nemam Unit

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages (HCCB); Chennai District; On-site; INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Hindustan Coca Cola Beverages (HCCB) is seeking a QA/QC specialist to ensure quality management and compliance across bottling operations. The role covers testing, material conformity, calibration, and GMP-driven process improvements.

The candidate should hold a Graduate or Post-Graduate degree in Chemistry or Food Technology with 6–8+ years of experience in beverage QA/QC, contributing to product safety and regulatory compliance.

Qualifications

• Graduate /Post-Graduate in Chemistry or Food Technology.
• Experience: 6-8+ years in a Quality Assurance/ Quality Control in beverage industry.

Responsibilities

• Ensure compliance for quality management and QA activities in bottling operations.
• Conformance to company or statutory specifications of finished goods leaving the plant.
• Monitor, assess and improve process capabilities in the plant.
• Conduct tests on raw materials, packaging materials, WIP and finished product at specified frequencies.
• Ensure calibration of inspection and testing equipment and chemical reagents.
• Drive GMP adherence culture in the plant and address consumer complaints via root cause analysis.

Skills

Quality Assurance

Quality Control

GMP adherence

Documentation

Internal audits

Education

Graduate /Post-Graduate in Chemistry or Food Technology

Job description

Role & responsibilities

• Responsible to ensure the compliance for all quality management, and quality assurance activities in the bottling operation in adherence to the Company guidelines and requirements in the supply, manufacturing and distribution processes.
• Responsible for the conformance to Company or statutory specifications of the finished goods leaving the plant.
• Responsible to monitor, assess and improve process capabilities in the plant.
• Responsible for conducting the required tests on raw materials, packaging materials, WIP and finished product at the specified frequencies.
• Responsible to ensure the availability and calibration of inspection and testing equipment and chemical reagents.
• Responsible for operational control and quality compliances of the final syrup, water treatment, effluent treatment and mixer production processes.
• Responsible to ensure storage condition conformation for raw materials, Concentrate / Beverage Base intermediates, auxiliary material and final product as per the Company guidelines.
• Responsible to establish the traceability and product identification for raw material, ingredient and Finished product.
• Responsible to monitor and drive GMP adherence culture in the plant.
• Responsible to address Customer/consumer complaints, derive root cause and establish Corrective & preventive action through process change or monitoring.
• To ensure documentation, document control and record keeping as per the Company, Quality and Food Safety management system requirements.
• Conducting Internal audits and deriving corrective action plan. Ensuring the effectiveness of Verification and validation plan for CCP/OPRP/PRP
• Responsible to document, implement and monitor a quality assurance system in accordance with the KORE norms.
• Responsible for driving business and QA functional KPIs and review trend periodically. Develop an environmental assessment and accountability program and implementing in coordination with local regulatory authorities.
• Responsible for periodic monitoring of cost lines for fixed and variable expenses and developing trend analysis.
• To work with the corporate team in validation of new products/projects/RM/PM & auxillary materials and executing the pilot runs at plant level.
• Monitoring the change over time of all production lines and developing opportunities for improvement.

Preferred candidate profile

Qualifications: Graduate /Post-Graduate in Chemistry or Food Technology

Experience: 6-8+ years in a Quality Assurance/ Quality Control in beverage industry.