Quality Manager-RICE Industry Only-PL

Experience

Age

Less than 45 years

Duties And Responsibilities

• Implement and monitor quality standards for raw rice, semi-processed, and finished rice.
• Conduct quality checks for grain length, moisture, purity, color, foreign matter, broken %, and aroma.
• Oversee grading, sorting, polishing, and packing operations to maintain product consistency.
• Approve final batches before dispatch according to contract specifications and market requirements
  

Laboratory & Testing Management

• Supervise lab staff conducting routine rice quality tests.
• Maintain testing equipment and calibration schedules.
• Ensure accurate documentation and reporting of test results
  

Supplier & Procurement Coordination

• Inspect incoming Rice from suppliers and traders.
• Evaluate new suppliers based on grain quality parameters and supply consistency.
• Work with procurement to reject substandard materials and improve sourcing quality.
  

Process Improvement & Standards Compliance

• Implement continuous improvement initiatives in milling, grading, and sorting.
• Ensure compliance with FSSAI, ISO, HACCP, BRC, and export quality standards.
• Assist/lead in quality Certifications Audits (Internal & External) from time to time
• Address customer complaints and conduct root-cause analysis to prevent recurrence
  

Team Leadership & Reporting

• Train mill operators, sorting line staff, and lab technicians on quality standards.
• Prepare daily, weekly, and monthly quality reports for management review.
  

• 7–10 years’ experience in rice mill operations or rice export industry.
• Experience with color sorters (e.g., Satake, Buhler), polishers, and graders
  

• Performance KPIs
• Batch rejection rate
• Customer complaint rate
• Yield efficiency and grain breakage rate
• Consistency in final product quality
• Strong knowledge of Basmati / Non-Basmati rice grades and processing
  

• Understanding of milling parameters, moisture control, and storage
  

• Ability to identify defects and troubleshoot production issues.
• Good communication and team management skills.
  

Competencies With Description

Analyzing - Understanding complex information; making connections; drawing conclusions

Planning and organizing - Scheduling activities and resources (human and non-human) in order to achieve an objective.

Monitoring - Verifying whether one’s own or someone else’s actions or products are satisfactory.

Fostering Teamwork - As a team member, the ability and desire to work cooperatively with others on a team; as a team leader, the ability to demonstrate interest, skill, and success in getting groups to learn to work together.