Quality Assurance Manager – Agthia Group

A leading Abu Dhabi-based food and beverage company, Agthia Group is looking for a Quality Assurance Manager with the following:

Responsibilities

• Ensure Quality Manual, procedure, and work guidelines are followed, and changes are done as per controlled system.
• Lead the Quality team to control and ensure all incomings, in process, final Quality, Process audit and Customer support.
• Validate and be responsible for quality assurance of the raw materials, finished products and packaging and to ensure that all the products comply with the company’s standard Specifications.
• Perform regular Quality checks of factories, and warehouses, storing containers and ensuring they all comply with the company’s standards.
• Perform quality assurance audits to ensure that the organization meets industry standards for best practices.

• Keep senior management updated on significant developments that are identified during Quality Assurance activities.
• Schedule and conduct onsite vendor food safety and quality assessments through collaboration with Internal Stakeholders for new potential vendors.
• Develop and evolve food safety and quality risk assessment criteria and supplier qualification programs, Lead HACCP and Food Safety Plans as needed. Maintain HACCP program, and pest control program and conduct crisis management and mock recalls.
• Review results of the food safety tests to ensure that they meet established standards and specifications and process optimization to improve results.
• Highlight best practices of food safety across teams and deliver training sessions for the whole organization. Support the government bodies in the food safety audits.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in food technology/food science.
• 6-8 years of experience in FMCG or related business and 2-3 years in a managerial position.
• Preferred dates industry experience.

• Excellent knowledge of HACCP, HARPC, and FSSAI and experience in the implementation of Food Safety Management Plans.
• Knowledge of food safety mitigation processing techniques to reduce microbial, chemical, and foreign material hazards.
• Strong investigating and analytical skills and knowledge of food safety procedures.

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