Quality Control Manager at Haske & Williams (H&W) Rice Mill Company Limited

H&W Rice company limited is a leading company with the drive to create quality local substitutes to imported rice products in Nigeria. Established as a vertically integrated producer of high-quality whole grain parboiled rice, strives to ensure the finest, export-quality products for our local and international customers.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Control Manager

Location: Demsa Local Government, Adamawa
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Summary

• The Quality Control Manager will be responsible for ensuring that rice production and other related activities aligns with defined quality standard and operating procedures.

Job Responsibilities

• Develop a comprehensive quality control and quality management system that ensures both people and products meet and exceeds quality, safety and efficiency standards.
• Develop required standard operating procedures, quality controls points and other documentations.
• Drive the standardization of quality and process improvement initiative across the rice plant and ensure adherence to all defined quality policies and Standard Operating Procedure.
• Liaise with the paddy procurement officer to establish quality requirements and ensure adherence from external vendors and suppliers.
• Liaise with all operating and processing staff to collate information for the development of quality procedures for their operations.
• Drive efficiency and waste reduction across all operations.
• Approve in-process production by confirming required specifications, conducting visual and measurement tests, and communicating the required adjustments to the production team.
• Approve all finished products by confirming specifications and conducting required quality tests.
• Perform routine checks on all outgoing products to ensure zero defects and verify that the finished product is bagged and processed according to specifications and quality guidelines.
• Maintain records of defective materials and ensure that defective parts are repaired, retested, or pulled away from the processing/production plant.
• Support in reviewing all operations at the processing plant and ensure they are in accordance with international best practices.
• Ensure that all established quality procedure, standards and specifications are presented in clear and descriptive formats for easy comprehension.
• Support in setting-up and maintaining the controls and documentation procedures.
• Monitor performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports.
• Make sure that the processing and production of rice meet international and national standards.
• Monitor the performance of the Quality Management System and support in providing recommendations to the quality control manager on observed quality issues.
• Constantly check that the assembly or production team adheres to standards and procedures and complying with SLAs and legal requirements.
• Produce data and report on adherence to quality standards across all operations.
• Support with providing trainings and techniques to enable other members of the team achieve the desired quality standards.
• Perform other functions as required.

Job Requirements

• Minimum of B.Sc. / HND in Chemistry or a relevant field.
• 7 - 8 years’ experience with at least 3 years as a Quality Control Manager within the manufacturing or food industry; preferably rice milling.
• Experience in large scale rice production or similar industries will be an added advantage.
• Experience in project and operations management.
• Knowledge of rice parboiling and milling machine.
• Basic understanding of technical trouble shooting of Industrial machine.
• Quality assurance process design for startup operations.
• Ability to execute and plan quality projects.
• Ability to drive value chain initiatives.
• Excellent organization and management skills.
• Delivery on work targets; quality and timeliness of delivery.
• Demonstration of trustworthiness: integrity, and excellence.
• Strong interpersonal relationships; customer-centric attitude.
• Ability to speak the Hausa Language is an added advantage.
• Good report writing and documentation skills.
• Understanding ISO Quality Management Systems.
• Good communication skills.
• Strong supervisory skills.
• High sense of responsibility, accountability and dependability.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously and efficiently.
• Ability to exercise independent judgement.
• Good analytical and problem-solving skills.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their CV and Cover Letter as a single Word document format to: [email protected] using the Job Title as the subject of the mail.

Note: Only successful candidates will be contacted

Application Deadline  3rd February, 2023.