- Driving compliance as per standards:
- Ensuring compliance to guidelines given by FSSAI or any other applicable law/rule with regard to food safety
- Ensuring that the plant complies with the ISO 22000 standards on food safety, documentation and quality.
- Ensuring compliance with AGMARK, BIS, EIA and other legal requirements related to food safety in food processing industry.
- Ensure quality standards of milk and milk products at every stage - be it procurement, processing and sales.
- Will be food Safety Team Leader as well as FSSAI nominee.
- Managing Quality Operations:
- Ensuring / maintaining overall Quality activities as per guidelines, QA plans, SOP etc for plant.
- Conduct performance audit of vendors, packaging suppliers and CC regularly.
- Ensuring that safety and GMP/GHP (good manufacturing practices and good hygiene practices) are followed to ensure hygiene and cleanliness.
- Addressing all quality complaints from external and internal customers and driving improvement for quality.
- Preparing annual budget for the quality department and ensuring compliance to budgeted spends.
- Lead the quality team members across Company, based out of manufacturing plant as well as Chilling centre through continuous performance feedback and providing requisite trainings.
- Driving improvements in Quality:
- Ensuring adequate documentation of all quality processes followed, and analyzing them on a weekly, monthly, annual basis to identify trends.
- Driving continuous improvement of milk quality, including training to employees on food safety and cleaning in plant and in CC.
- Analyzing quality of competitor products on a continuous basis and developing processes to improve quality of milk and products.
- Collaborating with the plant head and procurement lead to improve quality in operations - by proactively identifying and closing gaps in process.
- Keep Updates of new legal compliances for Food safety.
- R&D/New product Development
- Driving research and development across all product categories. In collaboration with cross functional teams, research product ideas, determine feasibility, create prototypes, stabilize formulations for scale up
- Create and drive new product development pipeline portfolio, to ensure successful rollout of value added profitable products to achieve growth plans
- Leadership Skills
2. Systems thinking Approach
3 Agility, problem solving approach and end to end ownership is critical
4. Partner with Business to provide and implement business solutions
5. Bring in Industry Best Practices
HOD - Quality Assurance - Hyderabad, India - Dodla Dairy
Description
Role : HOD – Quality Assurance
Designation : HOD - Quality Assurance
Department : Quality Assurance
Work Location : Corporate Office; Hyderabad
Reporting To : Chief Executive Officer
Qualification : PG in Dairy Sciences/Food Technology and must be qualified as Lead Auditor.
Prior Experience: years' experience in a company with a turnover of at least Rs. 150 crores
Objective of the Role: This role will be responsible for Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Research & Development and New Product Development functioning as a Centre of Excellence. Key responsibilities include ensuring adherence to quality standards for milk as well as other dairy products, across the value chain - procurement, operations and sales, managing all quality operations, leading R&D and new product development as well as continuous improvement initiatives.
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