Qa / Qc Manager

K And T Consulting (Pty) Ltd; Gauteng; On-site; ZAR 200 000 - 300 000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting company in Gauteng is seeking a QA / QC Manager responsible for implementing quality management systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and leading quality improvement initiatives. The role involves training teams and managing documentation processes. Ideal candidates should possess strong leadership skills and a solid background in quality management.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in quality management and safety compliance.
• Experience in leading and training cross-functional teams.
• Ability to manage documentation and audit processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead quality and safety initiatives across the organization.
• Manage documentation systems and ensure compliance.
• Coordinate training for internal auditors and relevant personnel.
• Represent the company in industry forums and discussions.

Skills

Leadership

Quality Management

Regulatory Compliance

Documentation Management

Training

Internal Audits

External Audits

Job description

QA / QC Manager Description: The role provides functional leadership to the site, defining quality tools and templates, policies, and procedures.

This role focuses on implementing, executing, improving quality, and providing technical support to manufacturing, defining QMS compliant policies, regulatory framework, quality incident management procedures.

This role also interfaces with NPD and R&D to ensure delivery of the brand promise, and external bodies (industry, government).

Key Performance Areas

Leadership: Provide leadership to influence the quality and safety culture through personal visibility and coaching of cross-functional leadership within the organization. Provide expertise, leadership, and support in quality management to resolve quality and safety issues within the organization. Functionally lead the site to deploy the company's quality and safety strategy, governance and goals through business specific projects and targets.

Quality and Safety Management

Develop, monitor and report the quality and safety KPIs for the organization. Ensure compliance and calibration of the company's QMS and SOPs across the organization's departments and service providers, compliance with GMP's, regulatory requirements, testing and release, HACCP plan reviews. Contribute to the development of the quality and safety strategy and policies. Initiate and support quality improvements in line with continuous improvement methodologies and support quality pillar deployment. Ensure that quality and safety processes are followed in all innovations.

Incident Management

Coordinate product-related incidents and consequent actions. Coordinate the review of business quality and consumer safety policies.

Documentation Management

Manages the system for master documentation SOP’s, shop orders, client formulas and regulatory information by: ensuring that systems are in place to manage the drawing up, checking, distribution and control of all master documentation such as golden rules, forms, quick guides, etc; ensuring client contracts are filed and requirements implemented into procedures; scanning all signed master documents to have an electronic backup in the event of a fire.

Manages control of all completed batch documentation by: ensuring that a system is in place to audit all batch documents after the manufacture and packaging process; ensuring that a system is in place to send samples and COAs to clients after the manufacture and packaging process; double-checking all audited documents and samples before being sent to clients where applicable; ensuring that a system is in place to receive and distribute client releases where applicable; ensuring that a system is in place to store and retrieve batch documentation.

Training and Audits

• Leads document training by: compiling relevant training material used for documentation training.
• Undertaking training of relevant personnel regarding documentation where applicable.
• Internal audits: providing training and mentoring of internal auditors; drawing up a schedule of audits and self-inspections and ensures audits take place as required; submitting reports of internal audits within required time to relevant HODs; coordinating corrective actions from audits to ensure they are systematic and compiled into MAPs; following up on MAPs with HODs and reports any non‑compliance to deadlines to senior management.
• External audits: develop and manage the external audit process (clients and regulatory bodies for ISO, SANS, etc.).

Coordinate corrective actions from audits to ensure they are systematic and compiled into MAPs. Submit responses to clients or regulatory bodies within required time frames. Follow up on MAPs with EXCO and report any non‑compliance to deadlines to the General Manager.

Represent the company in relevant industry forums, participate and influence industry discussions and issues. Drive internal and external benchmarking of the company's manufacturing operations with respect to quality ecosystem and identify gaps and develop strategies to plug those gaps by driving focused quality improvement initiatives. Coordinate quality activities and initiatives with marketing team capabilities. Results driven. Leading people. Leading change. Communicating and building coalitions. Exercising business judgment. Being results-driven. Effective communication. Strategic perspective. Integrity. Trustworthiness.

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