Quality & Food Safety Supervisor

**Responsibilities**:

- Review and approve daily test results for materials and products issued from each lab, and Ensures all results documented, and summary reporting on daily /weekly/ monthly basis.
- Schedule laboratory teams to ensure timely and accurate laboratory testing for production and quality teams is conducted.
- Ensure food safety compliance across all lines & report daily findings to the quality manger and work with the food safety leader on the action plan
- Ensures compliance to the set specifications and takes actions upon non compliance, monitors deviations from the standard parameters, and reports risks and mitigations for any deviation taking place.
- Carry out and manages positive release through ERP in a timely manner
- Investigates and confirms OOS test results with lab. Analyst according to the approved OOS SOP before reporting to the laboratory manager.
- Validates results and Approves new raw materials, or current materials from new suppliers according to the material approval SOP and the approved specifications.
- Conducts timely and accurate results for micro lab. Proficiency testing and report results to the relevant labs.
- Monitors and ensures that laboratories equipment’s calibration plan is fulfilled.
- Ensure that product shelf life samples, materials samples, and packaging reference samples are retained and stored in a secured proper manner for monitoring, testing and traceability purposes.
- Monitors and Validates the hygiene standards within the manufacturing environment through microbiology environmental sampling and testing according to the preset protocols and reports results to the laboratory manager.
- Ensures that product test results are recorded in the Highlight reports and report the results to the laboratory manager on monthly basis.
- Ensures that raw materials and packaging materials test results are recorded in the Supplier Performance Evaluation System and that supply defect reports are communicated to the Supplier development Leader.
- Plan / Monitor laboratories requirements (Reagents, chemicals, media, tools, equipment, PPEs, ) and ensure that they are provided in a timely manner.
- Update and review laboratory documents (SOPs, MOA, Specs., Operation Instructions) according to communicated changes and document control requirements, check labs Records on weekly basis, and ensure that they are completed and retained as per GLP requirements.
- Conduct induction training to newly employed analysts and Ensures the continuous induction of Moral and Motivation initiatives to ensure high productive and motivated teams.
- Conducts performance appraisals sessions of his/ her direct reports in due time. Reviews and approves the performance appraisals conducted by them, ensuring a timely, efficient, and objective Performance Management process.
- Initiates training needs for his team resulting from either channels; performance appraisals outputs, or technical training regarding GLP.
- Ensures that Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) is carried out and the required regular audit results are reported to the laboratories manager.
- Reports Laboratory KPIs to the Laboratories manager on monthly basis

Qualifications:

- BSc. in Chemistry, Food Technology or Engineering
- Spent the last 2 years in a similar capacity
- Communication Skills
- Planning & Organizing
- Problem Solving
- Excellent command of English language (Scientific English is a plus)
- Analytical Thinking / Skills
- Compliance Management
- Accuracy & Attention to Details
- Internal / External Customer Focus
- Accountable, Assertive & Adaptable
- Forward thinking, Motivating & Growing people
- Collaborative & Living our values