Legendary Foods Quality Control/Assurance Jobs in Accra
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Legendary Foods is a food-tech alternative protein business based in Ghana on a mission to produce West & Central Africa's most accessible, most nutritious, and most sustainable form of animal protein, protein-based FMCG products and protein ingredients using advanced insect agriculture to rear palm larvae sustainably. With offices currently in Accra & Kumasi, Legendary Foods seeks to advance its technology, launch new products and penetrate additional markets across Africa & beyond.
Job Description
Legendary Foods is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Quality Manager to oversee all aspects of quality assurance and control for our cookie and condiment manufacturing facility. The ideal candidate will be a results-driven leader with a proven track record in managing robust quality systems, ensuring product quality and safety, and driving continuous improvement.
The Quality Manager will play a critical role in implementing quality processes across raw material validation, in-process controls, finished product testing, and corrective actions - safeguarding product conformity to specifications. You will collaborate cross-functionally to optimize production efficiency while scaling quality excellence alongside business growth.
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Responsibilities
- Manage a team of at least 7 members to prepare products, product quality and manage inventory Disposition of non-conforming inventory - reject, rework or approve with deviation
- Incorporate customer complaints and feedback into quality enhancements
- Drive food safety culture through training and awareness
- Develops, implements, and manages processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability before delivery
- Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products
- Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues
- Spearhead establishment, implementation and maintenance of food safety systems
- Train and retrain processing staff, implement food safety protocol changes across a team and departments
- Review client, customer, and user feedback
- Maintains compliance with federal, state, local, and organizational laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies
- Running quality control checks and updating quality assurance documentation
- Liaise with labs to conduct necessary lab tests
- Document & organize information such as health & safety instances, quality management system protocols, protocol changes, customer feedback
- Innovate packaging ideas to enhance the shelf lives of all SKUs
- Innovate process to optimize efficiency of personnel, ingredients & time
- Provide support to product development staff
- Provide support to business development operations
Required Skills or Experience
- A degree in Food science and technology, Food processing engineering or any related field with 5 or more years of work experience in food processing, food and beverage industry
- Must have a strong leadership experience
- Strong understanding of food safety principles
- Running food quality control checks and updating quality assurance
- documentations
- Implementation of food quality management systems such as HACCP and ISO
- Strong problem-solving skills relating to food processing, quality and safety issues
- Strong usage ability of Word and Excel
- Must have experience managing a team for a minimum of 12 months
- Must have strong verbal and oral communication
- Must have the ability to report on one’s activities in written and electronic format and the activities of their team
- Must have customer service experience
- Must be self-disciplined and have high integrity
- Food safety certifications
- Ability to work with little or no supervision
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?If you're a results-oriented professional passionate about driving operational excellence in a dynamic production environment, we invite you to apply for this challenging and rewarding opportunity. This is a start-up environment and therefore creativity and resourcefulness are required. Please also note that we require interdisciplinary work to ensure overall company success.
Location: Lashibi, Accra
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1. Patiently scroll down and read the job description below.
2. Scroll down and find how to apply or mode of application for this job after the job description.
3. Carefully follow the instructions on how to apply.
4. Always apply for a job by attaching CV with a Cover Letter / Application Letter.
Legendary Foods is a food-tech alternative protein business based in Ghana on a mission to produce West & Central Africa's most accessible, most nutritious, and most sustainable form of animal protein, protein-based FMCG products and protein ingredients using advanced insect agriculture to rear palm larvae sustainably. With offices currently in Accra & Kumasi, Legendary Foods seeks to advance its technology, launch new products and penetrate additional markets across Africa & beyond.
Job Description
Legendary Foods is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Quality Manager to oversee all aspects of quality assurance and control for our cookie and condiment manufacturing facility. The ideal candidate will be a results-driven leader with a proven track record in managing robust quality systems, ensuring product quality and safety, and driving continuous improvement.
The Quality Manager will play a critical role in implementing quality processes across raw material validation, in-process controls, finished product testing, and corrective actions - safeguarding product conformity to specifications. You will collaborate cross-functionally to optimize production efficiency while scaling quality excellence alongside business growth.
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Responsibilities
- Manage a team of at least 7 members to prepare products, product quality and manage inventory Disposition of non-conforming inventory - reject, rework or approve with deviation
- Incorporate customer complaints and feedback into quality enhancements
- Drive food safety culture through training and awareness
- Develops, implements, and manages processes to ensure that products meet required specifications for quality, function, and reliability before delivery
- Identifies and sets appropriate quality standards and parameters for products
- Identifies and analyzes issues, bugs, defects, and other problems, particularly when problems recur in multiple products; recommends and facilitates solutions to these issues
- Spearhead establishment, implementation and maintenance of food safety systems
- Train and retrain processing staff, implement food safety protocol changes across a team and departments
- Review client, customer, and user feedback
- Maintains compliance with federal, state, local, and organizational laws, regulations, guidelines, and policies
- Running quality control checks and updating quality assurance documentation
- Liaise with labs to conduct necessary lab tests
- Document & organize information such as health & safety instances, quality management system protocols, protocol changes, customer feedback
- Innovate packaging ideas to enhance the shelf lives of all SKUs
- Innovate process to optimize efficiency of personnel, ingredients & time
- Provide support to product development staff
- Provide support to business development operations
Required Skills or Experience
- A degree in Food science and technology, Food processing engineering or any related field with 5 or more years of work experience in food processing, food and beverage industry
- Must have a strong leadership experience
- Strong understanding of food safety principles
- Running food quality control checks and updating quality assurance
- documentations
- Implementation of food quality management systems such as HACCP and ISO
- Strong problem-solving skills relating to food processing, quality and safety issues
- Strong usage ability of Word and Excel
- Must have experience managing a team for a minimum of 12 months
- Must have strong verbal and oral communication
- Must have the ability to report on one’s activities in written and electronic format and the activities of their team
- Must have customer service experience
- Must be self-disciplined and have high integrity
- Food safety certifications
- Ability to work with little or no supervision
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?If you're a results-oriented professional passionate about driving operational excellence in a dynamic production environment, we invite you to apply for this challenging and rewarding opportunity. This is a start-up environment and therefore creativity and resourcefulness are required. Please also note that we require interdisciplinary work to ensure overall company success.
Location: Lashibi, Accra
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