Quality Assurance Specialist

Duration: 6 Months

The Quality Assurance Specialist's objective is to provide technical support to the manufacturing, support areas, stakeholders and clients in terms of quality while complying with the safety, quality and process improvement standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Management and leadership of product investigations for deviation in physicochemical, sensory, GC parameters.
• Follow-up of NCs (Z1 (customer), Z3(MQI), Z4(RM), Z5(IPQI): closing of actions and follow-up to each responsible for action.
• Review and follow-up of internal NCs closure and determination of ""confirmed error"" and respective area.
• Review and follow-up of recoveries and reworks of raw materials & finished product.
• Review and follow-up of tests (impact tests follow-ups, small manufacturing tests review and follow-up, review of second GC samples).
• Follow-up and recovery of materials impacting provision.
• Preparation and dissemination of weekly quality communication to shopfloor.
• Makescents Quality modules housekeeping.
• ELEVATE Project key team member for Quality. (SAP Implementation).
• ISO9001 Implementation key lead member for Quality.

Responsibilities related to the Quality Management System:

• The employee must maintain a safe behavior and respect at all times the procedures and rules of Quality, Safety, Security, Health and Environmental protection.
• Report incidents or accidents, conditions, acts that put at risk the integrity of people, product safety, environmental impact threat to the facilities according to what is established in the Quality Management System and organizational guidelines.
• The personnel shall abide by the rules established in governmental laws, internal regulations, policies, procedures, memos, notices and operation manuals issued by any of the entities, as well as the orders received through their superiors authorized to do so.
• To keep updated the documents or records that are in charge of this position in the document management system.
• Actively participate in root-cause analysis, derived from any deviation, process results, indicators, audit, investigation, among others, to be part of the corrective or preventive actions towards the integral management system.
• Participation in internal deviation investigations.
• Monitoring of processes in the manufacturing floor.
• Maintain updated documents or records that are in charge of this position in the document management system.

Education Requirements:

Bachelors. Chemistry related field.

Technical Knowledge:

ISO9001, SAP, Chromatography, Statistical Process Control, Root Cause Analysis Methodologies, Office.

Desirable:

Bilingual (English + Spanish)

Background Experience:

Manufacturing companies in similar role or related to quality control roles.

Other Professional Requirements:

"SAP Statistical Process Control"