Deputy Quality Manager - Nairobi, Kenya - Surge Energy Limited
Description
Department: Quality.
Reporting to: Quality Manager
Position Overview.
Quality assurance and quality control.
Responsible for monitoring and evaluating internal production processes and examining products to determine quality.
Qualifications.
Education: Diploma in Mechanical engineering.
Experience: 5 years' experience.
Skills: Quality management, supervisory skills.
Duties and Responsibilities.
Quality Management.
• Understand customer needs and requirements to develop effective quality control processes.
• Devise and establish a company's quality procedures, standards and specifications.
• Oversee the product manufacturing and re-validation process to ensure quality.
• Review products, processes and systems on an ongoing basis to determine where improvements can be made.
• Ensure that all products are compliant with the set statutory standards.
• Ensure that all in-house systems and procedures are updated, revised and modified to meet the needs of external certification bodies.
• Oversee all product development procedures to identify deviations from quality standards.
• Examining the quality of raw materials and spare parts acquired.
• Inspect final output and compare properties to requirements
• Ensure quality control tests are done.
• Approve the right products or reject defectives/products that fail quality standards.
• Evaluate all rejected products.
• Improving production efficiency and managing waste.
• Perform root cause analysis and resolve problems.
• Undertake continuous training and development.
• Conducting regular quality inspections.
Documentation and Reporting.
• Ensure the various quality logs are filled on a daily basis.
• Submit detailed daily/weekly and monthly quality control reports such as number of rejects, number of leaking cylinders, breakdown reports, and raw material consumption reports to the management.
• Report quality standard issues to management.
• Keep accurate documentation and perform statistical analysis.
• Conduct quality audits on a quarterly basis.
Health and Safety
• Ensure adherence to health and safety guidelines as well as legal obligations.
Employee Management.
• Manage, coach and develop a high performing Quality team that meets agreed objectives and which delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements
• Set department objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing performance of direct reports.
• Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required.
• Conduct annual performance appraisals for the quality team.
Other Roles.
• Perform other duties and responsibilities as assigned by management.