Lab Manager Jobs in Gqeberha, South Africa at Mondelēz International
Location: Gqeberha
Description
Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?
Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.
You ensure quality in the factory and are responsible for meeting quality targets. You are fully responsible for the people, machinery and the identification and elimination of quality losses and problems in the department. You grow your team’s capabilities and coordinates departmental activities in accordance with corporate standards, local requirements and ISO standards. In this role, you report directly to the plant manager with dotted line responsibility to corporate quality.
How you will contribute
You will ensure that all quality objectives, goals and targets in the factory (including regional and global commitments) are met. You will develop and track your department’s budget and eliminate losses. With your team, you will conduct regular plan-do-act-check assessments to plan how targets will be met, executing the plan and periodically checking and taking action to stay on track. In addition, you will ensure that there is strict adherence with all appropriate laws, food safety quality standards and consumer requirements of all manufactured products and manage crisis situations internally and externally in ways that support the company’s image, policies and business.
As a people leader, you are responsible for recruitment and structuring of the department to ensure there are sufficient resources to deliver on plant objectives, set and assess performance goals, and coach and mentor team members.
What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:
Relevant experience (operations, quality and/or R&D)
Project management and managing multiple priorities
Commercial strategy process, product/package development process, food safety, plant commercialization, ingredient and package technology and training and coaching technical material
Communicating effectively and leading cross-functional teams
Statistical processes and problem-solving techniques
Working with external manufacturing suppliers to ensure compliance to our policies and procedures and technical vendors to support compliance
Working with customers on quality related issues
Purpose:
This role involves developing, managing and continuously improving the analytical and microbiological laboratory. This encompasses employee safety, equipment, and infrastructure and people development in order to ensure quality and safe food for our consumers.
Key Responsibilities:
Completing routine laboratory analysis
Statistically analyze data and provide trend analyses, recommend/suggest corrective action, manage and report on analytical and microbiological trends
Implement policies and procedures-ensure GLP standards are adhered to lead quality assurance to maintain the highest standards on a daily basis
Develop and implement HACCP procedures as part of the HACCP implementation team
Identify and manage continuous improvement projects re laboratory response time
Ensure proper functioning of equipment and that calibration is conducted timeously as well as asset care and maintenance of the laboratory equipment
Ensure prompt and accurate analysis of all incoming raw materials, packaging material and finished product
Ensure prompt response time on results
Manage and control day to day operation and efficiency in the analytical and microbiological laboratories
Provide support with regulatory compliance, GLP and GMP, Health and Safety and Corporate standards
Investigate out of specification results according to QMS OOS Guidelines and solve technical problems
Check raw data and approve final results
Conduct internal audits where required
Leading, guiding and support Laboratory staff, as well as developing staff to competent levels, while ensuring that self and staff behaviour are aligned with company values and expectations and where necessary, uses the company disciplinary process to correct behaviour
Manage rejection process of all non-conforming ingredients and packaging material
Compiling, approving, reviewing and accepting Work Instructions
Raw material, packaging material and…
Title: Lab Manager
Company: Mondelēz International
Location: Gqeberha, South Africa
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