Job Title: Quality Assurance & Improvement Associate (Fresher Jobs)
Organisation: Nice House of Plastics
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: SHEQ Team Leader
About US:
Nice House of Plastics Limited was founded in 1970 by Dr. James Mulwana, a leading entrepreneur and industrialist in Uganda. Our founder strived to create the base that has since grown to become the company we all know and love. We are proud to be a manufacturer of house hold and industrial plastic Items and are the only manufacturer of Ballpoint pens and Toothbrushes in Uganda.
Job Summary: The Quality Assurance & Improvement Associate maintains quality standards by developing quality systems that guide the approval of incoming materials, in-process production, and finished products. The incumbent will provide first line support and coordination to the Departmental Implementation teams in the deployment of Mulwana Way 4.0 best practices
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
- Develops and analyzes statistical data and product specifications to determine present standards and establish proposed quality and reliability expectancy of finished product.
- Conduct quality training programs to all employees with emphasis on product quality, customer feedback and continuous improvement through identification and analysis of customer requirements.
- Create and implement systems that ensure quality within the manufacturing process aimed at preventing defective products and reprocessing of products.
- Accountable for disposition of non–conforming product based on quality checks/ and inspection results.
- Participate in root causes and corrective actions from product quality defects/ consumer/ customer complaints and implement corrective actions with plant operations team.
- Routine inspection of all measuring devices to ensure accuracy
- Ensure proper housekeeping by immediately informing the shift leader of any areas observed that do not conform to the set standards.
- Approves incoming materials by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; rejecting and returning unacceptable materials.
- Approves in-process production by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; communicating required adjustments to shift leader.
- Approves finished products by confirming specifications; conducting visual and measurement tests; returning products for re-work; confirming re-work.
- Maintains safe and healthy work environment by following standards and procedures; complying with legal regulations.
- Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading technical publications.
- Provide sales with process/product testing data per customer’s needs
Improvement
- Facilitate & provide support to the implementation of 5S – Workplace organization, Focused Improvement, Teamwork and Visual Management across all Implementation teams.
- Track critical performance measures for the respective teams with regards to practices and measures of performance – KPIs.
- Oversee implementation of actions related to quality and Mulwana Way 4.0.
Qualifications, Skills and Experience:
- The applicant should at least hold a Bsc. Industrial Chemistry, Chemical Engineering with honors in a related field.
Desired Key Skills:
- QMS Implementation
- Documentation skills
- Promoting Process Improvement
- Safety Management
- Project Management
- Sharp eye for detail.
How to Apply:
All interested and qualified candidates willing to fill-up the above position can submit their Cover letter, CV and Academic Documents (pdf format) to the form below.
NOTE: Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted for further considerations.”
Deadline: 31st December 2022 by 5:00pm