Quality Assurance (Plant Hygienist) Job at Promasidor

Promasidor - We are an African company proud of our heritage and totally committed to the continent. We manufacture, market and sell unique brands which bring practicality and pleasure to millions of consumers across Africa.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Position: Quality Assurance (Plant Hygienist)

Job Location: Lagos
Job Type: Full-time

Job Objectives

• Responsible for maintaining components of the Food Safety Management System by establishing, maintaining, and coaching the building blocks of hygiene and food safety concepts within the factory. 

Key Responsibilities

• Define, implement, and verify the effectiveness of the systems related to pest control, cleaning validation & verification, pathogen monitoring, foreign body prevention and hygiene and housekeeping.
• Map sources of dirt across the factories and drive implementation of action plan to address them.
• Participate in good warehousing audits of the raw material and finished goods warehouses.
• Participation in the factory's internal GMP audit program.
• Participation in HACCP reviews.
• Coordinate the activities of the janitorial service providers across the factories and manage key performance indicators to optimize their operational effectiveness.
• Support the production team by ensuring adherence to hygiene standards.
• Support the maintenance teams by providing technical support for programs such as contamination risks.
• Ensure performance of structured root cause analysis after incidents related to hygiene.
• Deploy and deliver training on housekeeping and hygiene

Requirements
Education:

• B.Sc / HND in Food Technology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Industrial Chemistry or other food related courses.

Experience:

• Minimum of five years’ experience in the food and beverage manufacturing industry. 

Knowledge & Skills:

• Knowledge of Food Science
• Knowledge of Quality policies and procedure.
• Knowledge of manufacturing process
• Understanding of GMP and HACCP
• Proficiency in Microsoft office (Word, Excel) 

Personal Attributes:

• Leadership qualities
• Analytic personality
• Peoples management
• Knowledge sharing
• Tolerance for routine