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1. Duties and Responsibilities

•  To ensure the continuous improvement of process and product quality by providing technical advice and facilitating problem solving and decision making in order to drive quality assurance in the value chain

• Apply known principles, methods and techniques of chemistry and develop an appropriate controlling procedures 

  • The Chemist/QC Technician has to manage the quality control of the raw materials/ingredients, production processes as well as the products throughout the production operations and check all the quality parameters at the required frequency and to be proactively involved in the promotion and implementation of good blowing, filling and packaging practices in all production processes

• Perform chemical analyses water, ingredients, raw materials, intermediate products and tests on input, work in process and final products. 

• Follows and supervises the water treatment plants for raw water, bottled water, utility water, cooling plant ,reject water quality & boiler in feed water

• Checks and determines the amount of chemicals/raw materials/filters to be added in water treatment plants used for cleaning filling, downstream packaging and for CIP system

• Inspect inputs work-in-process and final product for conformance to the established standards.

• Prepares and standardizes reagents used for checking work-in-process and final product

• Ensures chemicals/filters used for water treatments changed periodically

  • The Chemist/QC Technician is the 1st support of the Quality Control and System Manager, in order to produce high quality of products in the most efficient manner.

• Ensures chemicals/filters used for water treatments changed periodically

• Specify the amount of chemical to be used for water treatment, boiler and cooling plant

• Ensures expired chemicals are not used for the water treatments 

• Ensures the proper handling of raw materials, chemicals and finished products

• Selects, segregate the expired or substandard products and follows the proper disposal of expired or sub-standard products 

  • The Chemist/QC Technician has to report all the issues to the Quality Control and System Manager (manufacturing and quality).
  • The Chemist/QC Technician has to respect the Quality Control and System  Manager directives
  • The Chemist/QC Technician has to record the KPI’s as per Quality Control and System Manager directives
  • Recording analysing and interpreting data for all physic- chemical analyses
  • Always keep clean your quality monitoring devices and working areas.
  • Perform other related duties as may required

1. DECISION MAKING POWERS AND AUTHORITIES

• Can stop packaging in case of faulty machine, or quality parameters going out of spec

• Can correct any incorrect manufacturing practice

• Reject non-conforming products

• Can reject substandard raw materials and packaging materials 

• Implement measures to avoid future quality problems 

• Expected to run packaging department in the absence of Quality Control Manager

A Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry or Food Technology  Working experiences in HACCP/ISO 22000:2005 certified Food Processing Industries, especially in Quality Control.  Mini: 3 year experience

How To Apply

Interested and qualified applicants who meet the above minimum requirement can send their application letter and CV through Ethiojobs.net within Five (5) consecutive working days of the announcement.