QHSE Officer at Lesaffre
Lesaffre designs, manufactures and markets innovative solutions for Baking, Food taste & pleasure, Health care and Biotechnology. Family group born in northern France in 1853, now a multi-national and a multicultural company,
QHSE Officer
- Job TypeFull Time
- QualificationBA/BSc/HND
- Experience2 - 5 years
- LocationNairobi
- Job FieldSafety and Environment / HSE
- Reporting to the production manager, you will oversee the safety, health environment, and quality assurance side of Lesaffre Kenya.
- You will develop, manage, supervise, and coordinate work systems to ensure that the production and services of the company meet Lesaffre Group safety and quality standards
- You will report and document all instances of non-compliance.
Key responsibilities :
HEALTH & SAFETY
- Incident management, investigation and documentation
- Managing the implementation and Sustenance of Management Systems
- Managing the maintenance of the legal register through engagement of local authorities (KEBS, DOSH, NEMA, and County Government) on permits, licenses and analysis reporting.
- Serve as the management representative to communicate all requirements and any changes of management systems.
- Ensure required standards of health and safety are always maintained in the company premises.
- Monitor compliance with LK safety requirements through effective management of plant maintenance/monitoring, emergency responses, product stewardship, Permit To Work.
QUALITY
Control
- Perform the quality control tests on raw materials, environment, final product according to the control plan.
- Readjust with production, after validation with the formulator.
Assurance
- Follow- up on calibration schedules of machines and equipment with the production responsible and in the laboratory.
- Act as a custodian of the organisation management systems - related documented and retained information.
- Act as a liaison between LK and certification bodies, regulatory bodies, other interested parties in matters related to certification audits, statutory audits/inspections and customer audits.
- Perform daily field presence to ensure hygiene, food safety and quality standards are met.
- Participate in a validation of new raw materials/packaging supplier.
- Assist to handle all requests about non-conformities and deviations from suppliers.
- Manage consumer/customer complaint and customer satisfaction program.
- Establish corrective action plans and enforce implementation to reduce the number of customer and consumer complaints.
- Perform supplier audits
- Perform internal quality audits
MANAGEMENT
- Represent LK in sector bodies and technical committees KEPSA, KAM, KEBS, NEMA, DOSH etc
- Develop Quality and Food safety culture within the organisation, with training and awareness.
REPORTING
- Daily record & report to line manager every occurrence of quality control deviations or any remarkable event.
- Identify issues and submit reports to the line manager on performance and progress.
- Monthly report to functional Africa Quality Manager and whenever it’s necessary.
Qualifications
- After a bachelor's degree in food processing or agro-industrial technology, you worked 2 to 5 years in production/industry, which gave you extensive knowledge of quality management and food safety including preparation, handling, and storage of food.
- Our future QHSE Officer must have the following skills :
Soft skills:
- Hands on
- Problem-solving
- Attention to detail
- Teamwork
- Communication and interpersonal skills (feedback …)
- Self-motivated with a results-driven approach
- Organizational and leadership abilities
- Time-management abilities
Competences:
- Experience in using various types of manufacturing machinery and tools
- Ability to choose an alternative course of action when necessary
- Ability to evaluate, discipline and motivate employees
- Fluent in English
Method of Application
Interested and qualified? Go to Lesaffre on jobs.smartrecruiters.com to apply
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