Sr. Manager - Quality Assurance

Job Description:

1. To establish, document and implement Food safety & Quality management system, and to ensure effective implementation, monitoring and control of Food safety & Quality management system at manufacturing, packing, testing and warehouse activities with respect to laid down procedures, systems and identify areas for improvement.
2. To review HACCP verification & validation plan, adhere to Schedule-IV of FSSAI for the food premixes division and comply with the requirements of various regulatory authorities and customers.
3. To review validation master plan of the plant and comply with the validation requirements of various regulatory authorities and customers.
4. To review SOPs, batch manufacturing and packing records, specifications, and test methods of the products.
5. To monitor, control and review deviations, change controls, out of specifications may occur at all stages of storage, dispensing, manufacturing, packing, testing and distribution.
6. To ensure issuance, control, distribution, storage, retention and destruction of quality documents and corporate guidelines as per Food safety & Quality management system.
7. To ensure that all critical equipment and utilities that are used to manufacture the product are under qualified status, calibrated and are under routine preventive maintenance program.
8. To ensure proper investigation of market / customer / regulatory complaint by root cause analysis, corrective actions and ensure effective implementation of CAPA initiatives, close the complaints, send responses to the complainants, and verify effectiveness of CAPA periodically.
9. To evaluate batch records, COAs and release finished products for sale. To ensure that, all the operations are carried out are as per GMP and laid down procedures, that each production batch complies with the provisions of Food safety & standards (FSS) act and other legal, customer and regulatory requirements.
10. To ensure compliance to the regulatory, customer, legal requirements and face audits and comply non-conformities observed during the audits.
11. To ensure compliance to the current ISO 9001, D&C Act, FSS Act 2006, FSSC 22000 (including HACCP), FAMI-QS, WHO-GMP and other customer and regulatory requirements.
12. To carry out self inspections and ensure compliance to the audit observations of manufacturing, testing, warehousing facility.
13. To ensure completion of APRs of products and take appropriate actions in case of deviations.
14. Recommendation to recall approving authority on product recall, review, and disposition of recalled and returned goods.
15. Handling of online and in process rejections and take appropriate actions to avoid the recurrences and disposition.
16. To co-ordinate with CQA for up gradation in the SAP systems as per any changes or new product at Mahad site.
17. To monitor stability of products, control sample storage and compilation of analytical reports and take appropriate action in case of failures.
18. To identify and provide resources with co-ordination with other departments to carry out quality functions effectively.
19. To liaison with regulatory authority for new product permissions, licenses and renewals, certificates, and approvals.
20. Ensuring implementation and execution requirements of food regulations for export market (US)-21 CFR Part 110 & 111.
21. Ensuring avoidance of breach of data integrity at all the levels.
22. Ensuring implementation of effective sanitation activities at all the levels.
23. Imparting required training to shop floor personnel.
24. Adherence to the requirements of EHS norms.
25. To raise the PR for procurement of miscellaneous items, external trainings, certification fees and capex related items.
26. To sign the Excess Material Requisition, LRA notes, BMR return notes and other QMS documents in absence of Head- QA.
27. To perform MSC2N transactions in SAP.
28. Review of Change Control, Deviation, CAPA in trackwise.
29. Implementation and execution of various initiatives as are suggested by corporate functions (SEEDS, Learning university, Quality mindset).
30. SOP, BMR/BPR, layouts, STP review and approval in ENSUR system.
31. To conduct vendor audits for RM/PM.
32. To lead and guide the IPQA team for shopfloor activities.
33. To set, review and evaluate KRA of reportee s.
34. To share the R&R nominations of team members on quarterly basis.
35. To identify and implement the OE projects.

Qualification: B. Pharm/ M. Pharm/ B. Tech-Food/M. Tech- Food