Quality Manager Employment Opportunity – Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd
Job Title: Quality Manager
Organisation: Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd
Duty Station: Namanve, Mukono, Uganda
About US:
Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd is a leading coffee procurement, processing and marketing company in Uganda. In 2009, the company exported over 510,000 bags of coffee, each weighing 60 kg. This represented approximately 16% of all the country’s coffee export that year, totaling 3.2 million bags. The coffee was sold primarily the European Union, Japan, Australia and South Sudan. The company also markets directly to the major international coffee roasting companies. Kyagalanyi Coffee Ltd. is part of the Volcafe group and is one of the leading exporters in Uganda. Volcafe, is one of the world’s largest traders of arabica and robusta coffees and provides beans for 50 billion cups of coffee each year.
Job Summary: The Quality Manager plays a critical role within our business. This role manages the Quality department which ensures that all the coffee we purchase, store, process and export is always managed and handled to the highest possible standards. This role, with the support of the Quality department, is also responsible for guiding purchasing decisions by ensuring highly accurate and timely quality analysis is carried out on all coffee samples prior to purchase and also during the entire production cycle.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for leading and managing the Quality Team based at the Head Office in Namanve and at various locations across Uganda.
- Required to oversee all coffee sampling processes to ensure that samples are taken correctly and in line with required procedures.
- Responsible for ensuring all required quality documentation is completed to a high level of accuracy and in a timely manner.
- To oversee the analysis of all coffee samples providing daily reports to Management and Suppliers on points such as moisture content and ensuring that the process followed is in line with testing procedures and regulations.
- Work closely with the Production teams to ensure that quality inspections are carried out regularly and throughout all stages of the production and storage processes.
- Responsible for making recommendations on process improvements that will ensure the highest level of quality is maintained for all coffee that passes through our operation.
- Responsible for ensuring all export ready coffee is fully compliant with company and regulatory requirements.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant must hold a University degree level education in Food Science or any other relevant discipline.
- The applicant should have substantial experience in a similar role within a commodities environment.
- Good awareness of compliance best practices, regulation and solid experience in managing compliance paper trails ensuring that key documents are completed to the relevant standard
- Expert knowledge of sensory science in general and coffee sensory in particular.
- Trained as professional coffee cupper (Licensed Q-Grader) with strong ability to develop and train team members.
- Excellent understanding of quality assurance principles, major food safety requirements and quality systems including: ISO, HACCPS, Good Manufacturing Practices etc.
- Strong project management skills.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both orally and in writing.
- Excellent organizational skills, attention to detail and able to handle multiple priorities at the same time.
- Good computer skills including proficiency with Microsoft Office and able to master other software.
- Ability to perform accurate calculations and analysis
- Comprehensive understanding of key business processes within Quality and Production
- Ability to work well under pressure with a proactive can do attitude.
How to Apply:
All prospective employees should send their applications via email to kcl-hr@kyagalanyi.com with a covering letter and an updated CV.
Deadline: 25th May 2018
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