Qc Chemist

GENERAL SUMMARY

• Ensure the products manufactured and shipped from the plant perform for the customer as they were designed to perform.
• Ensure the manufacturing processes employed at the plant are intrinsically safe, meet all legal requirements and are environmentally compliant.
• Maintain continued certification to ISO 9001, NSF, KOSHER and HALAL standards and other requirements to which the company subscribes.
• Drive continual improvement of all plant manufacturing processes and management systems.
• Drive continual improvement of PQ Pillar and other pillar activities of TPM
• Execute plans to achieve Quality goals and objectives and to improve plant KPIs.

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Key Accountability

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Reviews raw material supplier changes and new or updated analytical test methods in coordination with MPDQ and Global RD&E. Manages and maintains plant compliance as per ISO 9001:2015, NSF and HALAL certifications. Manages the off-spec inventory.

Determines which materials have to be disposed of and develop robust rework plans for those materials that can be successfully reworked.

Adopt all the modules of eQMS and implement within the plant activities. Training and refresher training to be provided to all SC associates for successful implementation of eQMS activities.

2.

Close monitoring of all the key KPIs of Quality (CQI/MQI, Customer Complaints, FPF, Quality Alerts etc), yield improvement, laboratory instrument calibrations, closure of internal / external audit findings, preparations of SOP/WI, COA generation for all finished products. Make action plans to reduce FPF and any recurring Q-Alerts.

3.

Manages the plant participation in the new product introduction process including the GTT set-up, SAP/EPIC access and updates all the specifications of raw material & finished products in regular intervals.

Monitors the process capability of all the manufactured products within corporate guidelines and collaborates with the Manufacturing Team for continuous improvement of CpK value. Ensure 100% compliance on In-process, RM and FG analysis for all Ecolab and Nalco Water products.

4.

Resolves all quality related customer complaints (internal & external) using RCA tools and methodologies, technical problems with existing manufacturing processes including off-spec batches, raw material and packaging material quality issues etc. Collaboration with Global RD&E team on problem solving of customer complaints, new products introduction, Manufacturing and Quality capability study of new products and process improvement opportunities.

5.

Conduct Quality Improvement / Quality Culture Team meetings on a regular basis. Coordinating for new product developmental activities, development of alternate raw material sources, E&O inventory reduction etc. Take ownership of all kinds of internal and external audits (IMS, NSF, Halal), any kind of regulatory audits and audits conducted by our customers.

6.

Participate in the Plant Leadership meeting, SHE committee meeting, Drive MPDQ guidelines into daily practice in the plant and participate in best practice sharing of ideas/practices from the plant across the Ecolab network. Extract the Leading and Lagging Quality indicators from different Power BI and take necessary steps if there are any deviations.

Reporting of Quality KPIs in the MPDQ site. Prepare monthly report for Quality OGSM review and present it to India Leadership team.