New Opening for Quality Control Coordinator
New Opening for Quality Control Coordinator
Position: Quality Control Coordinator
Company: PepsiCo
Location: Kosi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Job Description
Responsibilities:
As a Quality Control Coordinator at PepsiCo’s Kosi facility in Uttar Pradesh, India, you will play a vital role in ensuring the highest standards of product quality and safety.
Your responsibilities include:
- Launching and maintaining the quality culture in our greenfield plant, ensuring the right quality products.
- Stabilizing shift quality operations in the new plant, meeting key performance indicators (KPIs) such as minimizing work-in-progress, leakages, and customer complaints.
- Implementing stringent online quality control checks and finished product inspections to minimize customer complaints.
- Implementing and maintaining quality control systems and standards for processes, physical systems, and the environment.
- Troubleshooting during production to minimize wastage and maintain quality.
- Ensuring compliance with GMP, GHK, GLP, and internal/external audits (HACCP, AIB, Personal Hygiene, Process audit).
- Training and developing the quality checkers team.
- Ensuring the quality of potatoes used in production meets standard specifications.
- Conducting COOK tests to check factors like color, defects, greening percentage, etc.
- Providing status reports to the Agro Department and indicating picker requirements.
- Making decisions to accept or reject potato lots.
- Conducting regular Cook’s Tests for stored potatoes.
- Performing online quality checks during production shifts, ensuring compliance with PepsiCo quality standards.
- Conducting visual inspections and ensuring machine parameters are within specified ranges.
- Monitoring fryer oil quality and making decisions on its use.
- Conducting various checks on fried chips to maintain product quality.
- Measuring parameters like bulk density, moisture, and seasoning.
- Ensuring corrective actions are taken for quality issues.
- Communicating picker requirements promptly.
- Conducting online quality checks in the packaging area.
- Ensuring Quality Checkers perform regular checks for air leakage and weight.
- Conducting analytical tests, including oxygen percentage in bags.
- Addressing quality concerns promptly and involving relevant personnel.
- Monitoring machines’ impact on quality and minimizing waste.
- Maintaining accurate reports and records for communication.
- Conducting quality wall meetings and coordinating action plans.
- Ensuring adherence to safety and hygiene practices through regular audits.
- Handling hold material efficiently to minimize wastages.
- Submitting weekly and monthly reports to the quality manager.
- Ensuring compliance with statutory laws and raising awareness.
- Resolving customer complaints effectively.
- Assisting in root cause analysis and implementing action plans.
- Participating in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) activities.
- Promoting a work culture that emphasizes company growth.
- Providing feedback to the quality manager and driving change initiatives for continuous improvement.
Qualifications:
Key Skills/Experience Required:
Bachelor’s degree in Food Technology (B.Tech Food Tech).
3 to 5 years of experience with exposure to food safety systems and ISO systems.
Preferably, knowledge of FSSAI, HACCP, AIB, and TPM.