Ensure the effective implementation of quality assurance and quality control systems to ensure compliance with Company policies, procedures, practices and standards and local regulations. Ensure compliance with good manufacturing (GMP) and good laboratory (GLP) practices, supporting Plant’s and Quality Assurance Department high performance.
Analytical Testing
- Ensure all raw and packaging materials and finished product comply with Company technical specifications. Including process water.
- Follow company physical-chemical analytical testing procedures to ensure ingredients, packaging materials, intermediate and final products to comply with Company requirements.
- Ensure analytical equipment is calibrated accordingly and is fit for use.- Ensure ingredients have all pertinent documentation (Certificates of Analysis, pre-shipment approvals, etc . before their final release.
- Prepare and store retention samples for ingredients and finished products.
- Ensure all analytical testing procedures and testing results are recorded accordingly to reflect Company, ISO and local standards and requirements are met.
- Complete the approval and release procedures for ingredients, packaging materials and finished product.
- Sample ingredients, packaging materials, intermediate and final products both within the premises and at external storage if required.
- Coordinate with other concentrate plant laboratories, release testing of pre-shipment samples.
- Coordinate raw materials pre-shipment samples submission.
- Coordinate approval of raw materials direct shipments to bottling operations (e.g. juice, malto-dextrin, etc.).
- Develop or approve manufacturing working instructions to reflect Company standards are followed.
- Coordinate with other Company operations (R&D centres, Ingredient Quality Department, other laboratories) new product introduction quality checks and any approval issue.
- Co-coordinate with Safety/Environment Officer to carry out risk assessment on possible safety/environment hazard from the analytical work. Ensure compliance to safety and environment requirements when conducting analytical work and discarding materials (reagents, samples, etc.) to minimize any risks identified.
Auditing
- Implement and validate new analytical methods validated and approved by Atlanta.
- Coordinate /conduct internal Company requirement and Good Manufacturing Practices audits.
- Coordinate visits and audits to local or international suppliers (juice, ingredients, packaging materials)
- Perform Company and ISO routine audits on new and existing suppliers.
- Periodically validated process water and waste water discharge parameters.
Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Actions Development
- Participate in root cause analysis sessions to solve non-conformances from Company or Integrated Management System Standards.
- Develop formal corrective actions to avoid issues recurrence. (This includes joint efforts with Supply Chain for customer complaints).
- Follow up on supplier corrective actions.
Other responsibilities
- Support supplier development initiatives (e.g. new packaging, ingredients suppliers)
- Support the purchasing of chemical reagents, supplies and analytical equipment.
- Be a member of the sensory analysis panel.
- Develop and execute laboratory operations productivity improvement initiatives.
- Jointly work with R&D Centres and Supply Chain in value management initiatives (e.g. formula rationalization, formula change, ingredient substitution, etc.)
- Support Quality Assurance capital and operational budgets development.
Qualification Requirements:
- University Degree in Chemistry/Food Technology
- Minimum of 2-5 years experience in food/beverage or pharmaceutical multinational organization’s quality control department/laboratory operations
- ISO Internal Auditor certification would be consider
ed as an advantage
- Quality systems (ISO 9001, ISO 17025 and ISO 17025) knowledge is required
- SAP experience would be considered as an advantage
- Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Good Laboratory Practices (LGP)experience is required
- Demonstrated ability of executing food industry analytical testing
| CPS SG - Quality Control Analyst | Singapore |
