Quality In Operations Specialist

Danone; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A global food company seeks a Quality Manager in Johannesburg to drive quality KPI improvements, ensuring compliance and managing QFS risks. Candidates should possess a degree in Food Technology or a related field, with a minimum of 5 years in quality roles. Strong communication, problem-solving skills, and experience with continuous improvement techniques are essential. This position offers opportunities for career advancement within a dynamic environment, fostering innovation and team collaboration.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Dynamic work environment

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in plant-based quality roles.
• Solid experience with continuous improvement tools like TPM/Lean/WCM.
• Demonstrated SPC capability and change management.

Responsibilities

• Drive continuous improvement across quality KPIs.
• Ensure QFS compliance and manage associated risks.
• Lead QFS change management and validation.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Problem solving

Root cause analysis

Continuous improvement

Good communication skills

Data analysis

Education

Degree in Food Technology or Food Science

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

About The Job

Scope To drive continuous improvement across quality KPI’s, deploy quality strategy, governance and goals at the plant. Ensure all QFS risks are proactively assessed and managed with adequate resources planned upfront to reach QFS compliance. Validate QFS criteria in the project at all steps. Lead QFS change management i.e. ensure all changes are done with proper change management base on risk analysis and followed by efficient validation and verification.

About You

Qualification(s)

• Degree in Food Technology or Food Science, Engineering or other relevant qualification

Experience And Skills

• Minimum 5 years’ experience in plant-based quality roles
• Production/ Technology / Systems knowledge
• Solid experience with continuous improvement tools like TPM/Lean / WCM
• Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving, non conformance management, root cause analysis, CAPA, training
• Good working knowledge of the MS Office suite (Outlook; PowerPoint, Excel)
• Demonstrated SPC capability, process optimization and change management
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Reason For Essential Qualification & Skills

• Good cross functional experiences as candidate will be interacting between different departments (Industrial, R&I, Sales, Marketing) and internal stakeholders
• Ability to lead cross functional teams to deliver against quality and FS objectives.
• Solid Scientific Background
• Holding people accountable
• Good influence skills
• Ability to analyze data and information to recommend action.
• Ability to spot trends and initiate further investigation.

About us

Do things your way, the way you work, the way you develop, the way you progress, it’s up to you. Working here you will need to enjoy a fast pace, complexity and it can get a little challenging. But it’s packed with opportunities. You’ll work with some of the best-known brands in the world, Such as Nutriday, Yogisip, Inkomazi etc. We absolutely guarantee that you can just be yourself.

Be innovative and entrepreneurial and the impact you could make might just amaze you. Join our movement for a healthier world. One planet one health BY You. For more information about Danone, our divisions and culture, please explore careers.danone.com.

We offer

A job which could easily turn in to a career in Danone. We believe everyone is born with superpowers, something which comes natural to you. We know this uniqueness is something which brings both excellence as well as energy, so we believe in all Danoner’s potential and when we build careers based on these superpowers and when we develop everyone’s potential to the fullest magic happens. This is how we like to see Talent Management in Danone.