Deputy Manager Quality Assurance

Productivity, Process Improvement and Cost Management: (25%)

• Planning, organizing Schedules & overseeing production process and ensure quality.
• Technical procedures & standards for carrying out operation & maintenance of equipment's.
• Preventive Maintenance System and Adhering to preventive maintenance program to keep plant and machineries in healthy condition without breakdowns.
• Ensure efficient collaboration and coordination between relevant departments including procurement, distribution and management.
• Preparing and timely submitting of quality reports, along with variances, if any.
• Analyzing daily production reports for determining efficiency and productivity within the products range and minimizing wastage as per Plant KPIs.
• Monitor dispatches of all products for quality parameters.
• Repair & Maintenance Budget, Cost Saving and Productivity Improvement Projects.

2. Product Quality: (60%)

• Ensure basic principles of compliances are implemented and adhered to, for the entire process, starting from raw material handling, processing, packaging and dispatch of finished goods.
• Maintaining the Quality at all the levels from lab scale to commercial scale along with final product until the dispatch of the goods. Raw material checking, in-process sample check, harvest sample check, finished product check, Packaging quality & quality check of dispatch product.
• Maintain and upkeep of Plant hygiene by ensuring good manufacturing practices all the time.
• Analyze and reduce re-occurrence of break-downs by carrying out RCA within the team.
• Investigate incidents related to the plant and make records/recommendations on preventive or corrective measures
• To proactively identify potential problems within production and find resolution to minimize wastage/damage/risk or possibly create unforeseen opportunity for gain.
• New product process optimization for commercial production
• Shelf life of the product checking up to 2 years and back sample maintaining at our in-house.
• Following the ISO, IMO, INDOCERT guidelines to improve the quality standards and conduct the audits
• Knowledge on microbial based procedure including fungal & bacterial based submerged fermentation.
• Knowledge on contamination control during process & at the filling, mixing, downstream processess etc
• Knowledge on downstream process like centrifugation (bacterial and fungal), Freeze drying (Bacterial and fungal) etc.
• Maintenance & SOP's implementation for clean room.

3. Safety, Environment and Housekeeping and Appearance: (5%)

• Conducting Prevent accidental injuries and reduce health exposure to extreme environmental levels via employee learning, safe behavior and the application of engineering principles to facilities, equipment and process design.
• Ensures all work is completed in adherence to safety policies and guidelines.
• Investigates any accident or safety violation, prepares appropriate reports, takes action steps to correct and prevent future occurrences. Defines and implements solutions to reoccurring accidents or most common hazards.
• To carry out continuous improvement in area of operation for improving safe work environment.

4. Manpower Planning and Development: (5%)

• Ensure ample manpower capacity to ensure enough resources are in place to operate the plant in a given shift (both contractual and regular employees) as well as ensure smooth delivery of products (supply chain).
• Ensure manpower schedules are properly implemented.
• Mentoring and imparting technical training/knowledge to staff for better working.
• Monitoring labour performance, rating their efficiency, building a positive work culture and enforcing good product handling practices during maintenance, production and dispatch.

5. Customer Satisfaction: (5%)

• Ensure customer satisfaction by the way of delivering products, services and information with promptness and accuracy at all times.
• Understand service quality index (SQI) and make meaningful contribution in continuous improvements.
• To provide and maintain excellent customer service.

Activities he will Carry out.

1. Fermentation process controls for contamination free product.
2. Ensure zero contamination from strain to finished products through strict process controls.
3. Reduce the contamination failure in any inoculum process, fermentation process along with bottle filling process, mixing etc.
4. Controls on carrier to have a contamination free carrier for Powder formulations.
5. Should be Involved in validation of the production batches for quality .
6. Should be Involved in Validation of cultures every three months and update the same through R&D
7. Should be Involved in New techniques implementation on packaging through automation process
8. Implement FIFO System in raw materials, packaging materials along with WIP, SFG and FG.
9. Should be involved in input quality control system of raw materials, packaging materials and chemicals.
10. Should be involved in logistics and materials have to be dispatched of good quality as per accepted parameters

Any Particular Skill he Should Have, which is must for the job?

1. Fermentation technology preferably in submerged fermentation.

2. Knowledge in Biological products like Bio fertilizers, Bio pesticides, Bio-fungicides, different formulations, strong knowledge on process control of microbial based products starting from strain, fermentation to finished goods.

3.Knowledge for Down streaming Process & equipment's operation, all quality analysis for DS, product formulation & production knowledge.