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Online QC Executive at Pepsico India
Supply Chain
Location: Kosi, India
Full-time position
Job Description
Overview
Ensuring the best quality of product and minimum customer complaints through stringent on-line quality control checks and finished product inspection. Implementing the right quality control systems/standards for the processes, physical systems, and environment. Troubleshooting during online production to minimize wastage and ensure quality. Responsible for maintaining GMP, GHK GLP, and internal / external audits (HACCP, AIB, Personal Hygiene, Process audit). Root cause and failure analysis for quality defects and implementation of corrective actions.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring that the quality of potatoes issued for production is as per the standard specifications
- Frying the sample and conducting COOK Test for checking various factors like % of undesirable color, internal defects, greening percentage, etc.
- Providing status report to the Agro Department and indicating the number of pickers that will be needed for the particular lot (whose responsibility)
- Deciding whether the lot should be accepted or rejected
- Conducting similar Cook’s Testafter every 15 days and whenever required for the potatoes stored in the warehouses under long term storage
- Conducting online quality checks in the process area to ensure that all FLI standards of quality are followed during the production process
- Conducting visual inspection for:
- Ensuring that all key operating parameters of machines are in the specified range (Peelers, Fryers, Slicer for thickness average and range, Chip Conveyors, Seasoning Tumbler)
- Ensuring after every hour that the potatoes in the trim and pare area are properly peeled
- Checking slice thickness and free surface moisture after every 4 hours
- Deciding whether to introduce anti-foaming agent in the process
- Recording the dwell time from the operator’s logbook after every 4 hours
- Checking the level of seasoning applied
- Conducting analytical tests for:
- Deciding whether blanching is required – Hunter Color Test
- Ensuring optimum utilization of fryer oil
- Conducting 4 hourly checks on oil being used for frying for FFA, OV, PV, foreign materials, taste, odor, and specific gravity
- Comparing test results against gold standards oil usage charts
- Deciding the mix of fresh and blended oil to be used for frying operations
- Checking the fried chips after every hour for TPD parameters like PA, percentage oil in the chip, % of soft-centered chips, blisters, dark flakes, clusters, etc.
- Measuring parameters like bulk density, moisture, seasoning, and dimension for Non-PC products
- Taking corrective actions to resolve problems thrown up by the tests
- Providing feedback to operators on corrective actions that can be taken for rectifying small problems
- Communicating to the shift in-charge the number of pickers needed for the process area based on online checks
- Asking the agro department to change the potato lot in case there are no pickers and the number of potato defects is large
- Communicating concern areas and corrective actions to the concerned shift in-charge and production manager promptly
- Informing the Quality Manager in case test results indicate a crisis situation, who will then conduct a complete trial run of that lot of potato to make an appropriate decision
Qualifications
- Tech (Food Tech)
- Exposure to food safety systems and ISO systems / 3 to 5 years.
- Preferably Knowledge of HACCP/AIB and TPM.
- Ensuring the best quality of product and minimum customer complaints through stringent on-line quality control checks and finished product inspection
- Implementing right quality control systems/standards for the processes, physical systems, and environment.
- Troubleshooting during online production to minimize wastage and ensure quality.
- Responsible for maintaining GMP, GHK GLP, and internal / external audits (HACCP, AIB, Personal Hygiene, Process audit)
- Root cause and failure analysis for quality defects and implementation of the corrective actions.