Steel Company Quality Assurance Manager Job in Nairobi Kenya

A local Steel Manufacturing Company is looking for a Quality Assurance Manager. 

The post is based in Nairobi and the duties are as indicated below;

Quality Assurance Manager

General Duties

• Driving the Plant to attain ISO Certification and adopt customized KAIZEN principles.
• Ensuring that the Plant comply with KEBS and ISO standards on quality of its products.
• Ensuring the Plant products are inspected by a third party certified by KEBS
• Developing manuals for Quality adherence

Specific Duties:

• Promoting quality achievement and performance improvement throughout the organization.
• Develop, implement, communicate and maintain a quality plan to bring the Company’s Quality Systems and Policies into compliance with quality system requirements.
• Effectively interact with Production and Development teams to maintain product supply and help introduce new products
• Working with purchasing staff to establish quality requirements from external suppliers.
• Ensuring compliance with national (KEBS, County, etc) and international standards (ISO Certification) and legislation.
• Application of environmental and health and safety standards.
• Agreeing standards and establishing clearly defined quality methods for staff to apply.
• Defining quality procedures in conjunction with operating staff.
• Setting up and maintaining controls and documentation procedures.
• Liaising with customers’ auditors and ensuring the execution of corrective action and compliance with customers’ specifications.
• Establishing standards of service for customers or clients.
• Preparing clear explanatory documents such as customers’ charters.
• Monitoring performance by gathering relevant data and producing statistical reports.
• Organize and manage quality assurance function in close co-operation with the customers and with the Company’s Management team (Member of Management Team).
• Identifying relevant quality-related training needs and delivering training.
• Collating and analyzing performance data and charts against defined parameters.
• Ensuring tests and procedures are properly understood, carried out and evaluated and that product modifications are investigated if necessary.
• Supervising technical staff in carrying out tests and checks.
• Writing technical and management systems reports.
• Bringing together staff of different disciplines and driving the group to plan, formulate and agree comprehensive quality procedures.
• Persuading reluctant staff to change their way of working to incorporate quality methods.
• Manage and maintain the Company’s quality inspection and product release programs for incoming and in-process materials and components, processes and finished goods.
• Formulate and manage the development and implementation of goals, objectives, policies, procedures and systems pertaining to the QA/QC.
• Setting compliance objectives and ensuring that targets are achieved.
• Maintaining awareness of the business context and company profitability, including budgetary control issues.
• Liaising with the Procurement and Production Departments to ensure that quality raw materials / steel is procured for production purposes to ensure high quality standards of products.
• Assessing the product specifications of the company and its suppliers, and comparing with customer requirements.
• Process Management: Maintaining inventory for all the processes, procedures & work instructions.

Experience:

• Minimum of five (5) years experience in Quality Assurance Management with at least three (3) years in Steel Industry.
• Experience in implementation of developing processes and procedures for ISO certification is highly required 

Qualifications:

• A Degree in Engineering
• Post graduate qualifications in Quality Assurance

The above job specifications are a brief guide to the work the successful candidates shall be required to undertake but does not form a complete job description which shall be provided at a later stage.

If you believe you meet the above requirements, please send your covering letter and CV to the following address specifying the post applied for not later than 26th October 2014 ;

The Human Capital and Administration Manager

Email address: careerhome2@yahoo.co.uk