QHSE Officer at - Nairobi, Kenya - Lesaffre

Description

Lesaffre designs, manufactures and markets innovative solutions for Baking, Food taste & pleasure, Health care and Biotechnology. Family group born in northern France in 1853, now a multi-national and a multicultural company,
Summary

Reporting to the production manager, you will oversee the safety, health environment, and quality assurance side of Lesaffre Kenya.
You will develop, manage, supervise, and coordinate work systems to ensure that the production and services of the company meet Lesaffre Group safety and quality standards
You will report and document all instances of non-compliance.


Key responsibilities :
HEALTH & SAFETY

Incident management, investigation and documentation
Managing the implementation and Sustenance of Management Systems

Managing the maintenance of the legal register through engagement of local authorities (KEBS, DOSH, NEMA, and County Government) on permits, licenses and analysis reporting.

Serve as the management representative to communicate all requirements and any changes of management systems.
Ensure required standards of health and safety are always maintained in the company premises.

Monitor compliance with LK safety requirements through effective management of plant maintenance/monitoring, emergency responses, product stewardship, Permit To Work.

QUALITY
Control

Perform the quality control tests on raw materials, environment, final product according to the control plan.
Readjust with production, after validation with the formulator.

Assurance

Follow- up on calibration schedules of machines and equipment with the production responsible and in the laboratory.
Act as a custodian of the organisation management systems - related documented and retained information.

Act as a liaison between LK and certification bodies, regulatory bodies, other interested parties in matters related to certification audits, statutory audits/inspections and customer audits.

Perform daily field presence to ensure hygiene, food safety and quality standards are met.
Participate in a validation of new raw materials/packaging supplier.
Assist to handle all requests about non-conformities and deviations from suppliers.
Manage consumer/customer complaint and customer satisfaction program.
Establish corrective action plans and enforce implementation to reduce the number of customer and consumer complaints.
Perform supplier audits
Perform internal quality audits


MANAGEMENT
Represent LK in sector bodies and technical committees KEPSA, KAM, KEBS, NEMA, DOSH etc
Develop Quality and Food safety culture within the organisation, with training and awareness.


REPORTING
Daily record & report to line manager every occurrence of quality control deviations or any remarkable event.
Identify issues and submit reports to the line manager on performance and progress.
Monthly report to functional Africa Quality Manager and whenever it's necessary.

Requirements
Qualifications

After a bachelor's degree in food processing or agro-industrial technology, you worked 2 to 5 years in production/industry, which gave you extensive knowledge of quality management and food safety including preparation, handling, and storage of food.

Our future QHSE Officer must have the following skills :


Soft skills:
Hands on
Problem-solving
Attention to detail
Teamwork
Communication and interpersonal skills (feedback ...)
Self-motivated with a results-driven approach
Organizational and leadership abilities
Time-management abilities


Competences:
Experience in using various types of manufacturing machinery and tools
Ability to choose an alternative course of action when necessary
Ability to evaluate, discipline and motivate employees
Fluent in English