Quality Manager - Diaper Plant Lagos Job at Kimberly-Clark Corporation

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Job Title: Quality Manager – Diaper Plant Lagos

Employer: KCSSA West Africa Limited (a member of the Kimberly-Clark Corporation)  

Requisition #: QAMan

Job Type: Full-time

Location: West Africa – Lagos, Nigeria (Primary)

Category: Engineering

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Available Benefits: Medical Aid, Car Allowance, Cell Phone, Petrol Card, Incentive Bonus

Main Purpose of Job: To provide leadership and support in the area of quality and product development in the BCC sector within operations.

Main Responsibilities:

QUALITY

•   Manage the EWMA system within the BCC operations environment. Provide daily reporting on EWMA data.

•   Manage diaper laboratory environment.

•   Conduct regular testing of K-CSSA West Africa and competitor samples, while at all times ensure that the test methods are aligned with KCC & MEA.

•   Ensure compliance to ISO 9001 requirements

P&TD

•   Lead product qualification process within KCSSA West Africa BCC.

•   Co-ordinate marketing and operations activities with regards to new product and packaging development.

•   Set and lead trial schedules, trial requests, trial plans, testing, and trial reports.

•   Drawing-up and maintenance of all materials and finished product specifications

•   Ensure all product safety clearances for all materials are updated and obtained at all times.

COST

•   Lead cost saving initiative within the BCC operations environment.

•   Enviroment

•   Diaper environmental champion – ensure compliance with ISO 14001

•   Co-ordinate diaper environmental programmes.

•   Conduct environmental audits as required.

•   Leadership

•   Establish training requirements for  Quality support technicians

•   Lead all direct reports in terms of achieving objective

Job Requirements:  

Key Competencies / Skills:  

•   Generic Standards Functional Standards

•   Excellent Communication Skills both written and spoken at all levels

•   Good Planning and Organisational Skills

•   Analytical Thinking Skills

•   Attention to details.

•   Work accuracy.

•   Problem solving  

•   Product and process knowledge

•   Supply Chain knowledge

•   SAP R/3 knowledge.

•   Financial knowledge

•   KC's EHS System

Qualifications:  

•   BSC degree in Quality Assurance Management or a Statistics qualification with a minimum of five years experience within a FMCG manufacturing environment.  

•   Computer literacy,

•   SAP/R3 knowledge and experience will be an advantage.

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