Quality Inspector

BPUL is looking to recruit a suitable candidate for the position below:

Job Title: Quality Inspector

Reports To: Quality Assurance Manager

Duty station: Abattoir – Kigunga

Job purpose:

To ensure compliance to food safety requirements through ante- mortem and postmortem meat inspections, Online quality monitoring during production and verification of cleaning and waste management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Ensures live birds are received according to specifications through antemortem inspections
• To carry out ante-mortem and postmortem inspections of the birds received
• Prepares and completes daily live birds receiving and meat inspection reports to quality assurance supervisor or quality assurance manager
• Monitoring key equipment to ensure process control parameters are within acceptable limits.
• Carries out online monitoring of stunning voltage, scalding temperature, evisceration efficiency, temperature monitoring of refrigeration units, products and processing.
• Carries out online verification of chemical concentrations
• Ensures offloading of live birds, counting and weighing is done properly to avoid posing physical injury/ stress to the birds
• Ensures waste matter including blood, feathers, DOAs and condemned, intestines are properly disposed off.
• Ensures cleaning of working area, wastewater sieve and live bird crates during and after production are done properly.
• Ensures all chicken is clean, no feathers and chicken are good for human consumption through inspection and removal of non-conforming products.
• Ensures adherence to food safety and product quality measures through directing employees towards following GMPs during production.

Education:

• Minimum of diploma in animal production or agricultural sciences and related field OR A level with at least 5 years’ experience in Broiler chicken processing or growing.
• Training in Food safety/ Good manufacturing practices.
• Experience in meat inspection

Skills and  Experience:

• 3 years’ experience in quality assurance in an FMCG environment
• Quality inspection, auditing and testing experience.
• Experience in enforcing SOPs
• Ability to supervise and coordinate quality assurance activities
• Data capture and reporting skills
• Training and mentoring skills
• Excellent monitoring skills
• Good verbal communication and presentation skills
• Attention to details
• Ability to work calmly under pressure and within a big dynamic team
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage a complex workload and work to tight deadlines
• Time Management.
• High level of honesty and integrity
• Conflict management and problem-solving skills

Competencies:

The ideal candidate should demonstrate the following BPUL High Performance Behaviours:

• Common purpose
• Open communication
• Setting and Achieving Targets
• Sense of Urgency & Agility
• Accountability
• Collaborate Effectively
• Result-Driven Mindset
• Trust & Mutual Respect
• Customer Focused
• Innovation & Continuous Learning
• Sense of Belonging