Key Responsibilities
- Plan, manage and oversee factory quality control activities in accordance with the Quality Control Plan, ensuring the effectiveness and compliance of control methods, frequencies and results.
- Manage quality control processes for raw materials, packaging materials, semi-finished and finished products; make acceptance, rejection and conditional acceptance decisions in accordance with relevant procedures.
- Evaluate incoming material, in-process and finished product non-conformities; plan and manage root cause analyses, corrective and preventive actions.
- Ensure compliance with quality and food safety requirements, applicable legal regulations, company standards and procedures issued by Group Quality.
- Ensure that quality control activities, environmental analyses and compliance checks throughout production, storage and shipment processes are properly conducted and recorded.
- Manage laboratory operations; ensure the accuracy and reliability of analyses, verification of analytical methods, and proper calibration and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
- Coordinate the preparation of product and raw material specifications in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Department.
- Ensure that the necessary quality tests and trials are conducted during the introduction of new products, raw materials, packaging materials and equipment; evaluate and report the results.
- Manage supplier approval, performance evaluation and audit processes; coordinate the resolution of supplier-related quality non-conformities and supplier performance improvement initiatives.
- Manage customer complaint evaluation, root cause analysis and resolution processes; conduct customer visits when necessary.
- Actively participate in internal and external audits; coordinate audit preparations, evaluation of audit findings and completion of action plans.
- Manage quality approval processes for finished product release and make decisions to stop production when necessary to ensure quality and food safety.
- Define and monitor departmental objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs); continuously improve the performance and effectiveness of quality control processes.
- Identify the equipment, devices and consumables required for quality control activities; plan and manage the department's operational and investment budgets.
- Manage quality control activities related to wastewater and by-products and monitor their results.
- Lead lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives; plan and implement improvement projects within the area of responsibility.
- Lead, develop and guide team members; set team objectives, monitor employee performance and support their professional development.
- Ensure effective collaboration and coordination with relevant departments to improve the efficiency of quality control processes.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry or a related field.
- Minimum 10 years of experience in quality control, quality assurance or food safety, preferably in the food manufacturing industry.
- Experience in laboratory management and team leadership.
- Good command of written and spoken English.
- Proficiency in SAP, QDMS and MS Office applications.
- Knowledge of quality management systems and food safety standards, including HACCP, ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 / FSSC 22000, Halal and Kosher.
- Strong leadership, analytical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
- Effective communication, coordination and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- 🔗An international environment where you get to discover new cultures every day
- 🌱 Learning and growing while contributing to local or global projects,
- 💪🏼 An extensive global e-learning platform to support professional and technical development,
- 🍃 Varying numbers of initiatives in contributing to our CSR activities.
This role requires Turkish language.
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