Quality Control Technician Operations
Accountable for specialist outputs, as well as initiating quality standards within defined work routines and policies.
Job Purpose
To ensure effective quality control through the verification of scales and incubators, execution of the manufacturing start-up procedure, efficient packaging analysis, and inspections.
Key Accountabilities and Outputs
- Daily verifications of scales and incubators Manufacturing Start UP Procedure
- Check that the skew bar is set at the correct height, the barcode stickers and coding on bottles have the correct information and are legible
- Check the torques on all capping heads
- Check that labels conform to spec
- Report any non-conformances to the Line Supervisor and QC Supervisor
- Authorize the line supervisor to proceed once start-up results have been passed
- Testing of preforms
- Testing of blown bottles such as height, burst pressure, sectional weight, stress cracking, fill point capacity, drop test, visual inspections, wall thickness, base weight, neck finish dimensions
- Testing of closures such as height, skew cap detection, outer diameter, inner seal
- Label Inspections to ensure the application is correct
- Testing of labels for glue application
- Rinse residue tests Inspections
- Inspection of the Date and Batch code applications to ensure it is legible and correct
- Rinse pressure Inspections
- Inspection of barcodes to ensure correct and legible application
- Recording of all results
- Raising non-conformances to the QC Supervisor
- Ensure that the correct number of samples are taken for the relevant departments such as QC, QA, Retention and Micro
Adherence to the Quality, Food Safety, Health, Safety and Environmental Standards
- Ensure strict adherence to Quality, Food, Health, Safety and Environmental policies and standards.
- Enforce all food safety and health regulations, policies, and requirements at all times to guarantee a secure work environment.
- Maintain exceptional personal hygiene as per the organization’s code of conduct.
- Raise awareness about potential physical product contamination and implement control measures to prevent it.
- Take reasonable precautions to prevent health and safety hazards and follow the prescribed incident reporting procedure in case of accidents.
- Stay updated with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures. Enforce compliance with legislative and statutory requirements, as well as GMP’s (Good Manufacturing Practices).
- Attend and enforce the implementation of learnings from training sessions related to Quality, Food Safety, and Health and Safety.
- Maintain high levels of cleanliness and orderliness within the work environment.
General
- Responsible to ensure housekeeping is performed and ensure that all products and activities are stored and executed within the demarcated areas according to the housekeeping policy (green, red, and yellow areas).
- Conversant with relevant business information, policies, processes, and procedures.
- Maintains expected performance standards.
- While Job Descriptions are written up for the purpose of a basic outline of the work and responsibilities associated with the Job, the Company encourages and expects all employees from time to time to assist with work that may not be a direct part of their job description.
Qualifications and Experience
- NQF 5 National Diploma in Food Tech, Biotech or Analytical Chemistry (Essential)
- Up to 3 years experience (Operational Execution) FMCG; Bottling Equipment
- Basic MS Excel; MS Word; Email
Key Qualities
- Communication: Routine communication in connection with instructions, requests or normal work tasks.
- Problem Solving: Proactive identification of problems that are concrete and procedural, troubleshoot and apply solutions in line with guidelines provided or escalate more complex problems to superiors, providing information required to solve problems.
- Relationships Maintained: Others outside of own work area but inside the organisation.
Behavioural Competencies
- Verbal Communication: Able to communicate verbally in a logical manner, taking the intended audience into account.
- Decision Making: Organises information to make it easier to analyse or see trends.
- Continuous Improvement: Increases performance expectations when success has been achieved.
- Collaboration: Helps others with their work and meets commitments to team members.
- Accountability: Accomplishes assigned tasks and goals, taking necessary actions to keep progress against objectives on track.
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