Lab Technician

2 weeks ago

Kempton Park, Gauteng, South Africa AVI Limited Full time

AVI Ltd.
is known for its leading household brands across many categories including:

hot beverages, sweet and savoury biscuits and snacks, frozen convenience foods, personal care products, cosmetics, shoes, accessories, and fashion apparel.


NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED operates 5 manufacturing sites, offering world class manufacturing facilities in Isando (Johannesburg), Rosslyn (Pretoria), Westmead and Durban (KZN). It is home to some of the best-known South African tea, coffee and creamer brands, including our delicious range of much-loved savoury and sweet biscuits, and our melt-in-your-mouth snack range.


An exciting opportunity exists for a
Laboratory Technician at
NATIONAL BRANDS LIMITED Isando Coffee & Creamer. The successful incumbent will be responsible for carrying out physical and chemical analysis as required on standard and non-standard raw materials at incoming and in-process (where required) and finished products and/ or carrying out analysis as required on packaging materials at incoming and in-process (where required) and finished products.

To perform all quality/hygiene-related duties in accordance with the laid down Quality Assurance Management System and to ensure that the laboratory equipment is fully functional and calibrated.


Line Manager:
Laboratory Supervisor

Job Specification:

Key Performance Areas:

-
Incoming Material Control - raw materials

  • Sample (as per the NBL Sampling plan) and inspect incoming raw materials on a daily basis, conducting the required physical and chemical analysis against specifications/SAP Inspection plan using established test methods
  • Verify the COA (Certificate of Acceptability) against the specification
  • Using correct procedure test and report on acceptability/ rejectability of raw materials
  • Effective control of raw materials held for inspection
  • Capture results on SAP and complete the usage decision to release stock as well as complete NCR's for stock not within specification.
  • Generate product trends in the form of graphs
  • Stock control of chemicals for carrying out required analysis
  • Maintain laboratory in a clean and tidy condition
  • Test inprocess materials as required and communicate results. Deviations from standard to be highlighted to the Laboratory Supervisor/ QA Manager immediately
-
Incoming Material Control - packaging materials

  • Sample (as per the NBL Sampling plan) and inspect incoming packaging materials on a daily basis and conduct required physical and visual analysis against specifications/SAP Inspection plan using established test methods
  • Verify the COA (Certificate of Acceptability) against the specification
  • Using correct procedure test and report on acceptability/ rejectability of raw materials
  • Effective control of packaging held for inspection
  • Capture results on SAP and complete the usage decision to release stock as well as complete NCR's for stock not within specification.
  • Generate product trends in the form of graphs
  • Stock control of chemicals for carrying out the required analysis
  • Maintain clean and tidy hygiene condition
  • Test inprocess materials as required and communicate results. Deviations from standards to be highlighted to the Laboratory Supervisor/ QA Manager immediately
- **Incoming Material Control - new samples (suppliers), NPD and other factories in the group*
  • Analyze standard and nonstandard raw materials as requested by NPD, Group QA
  • Analyze the finished product as required
  • Play an active part in Continuous improvement teams as relevant to your position

- **Process Control*
  • Complete tests on any inprocess materials as required. Monitor and maintain records of relevant data and report on outofcontrol situations
  • Work with multidisciplinary teams to investigate issues with material and resolve qualityrelated issues.
  • Raise NCR's for any issues identified.
-
Hygiene and Housekeeping Maintenance

  • GMP audits completed as per schedule
  • Areas of concern highlighted to Managers when necessary
-
Training in basic Laboratory techniques

  • Train students for a given period in the routine laboratory methods and tasks required
  • Ensure students are able to report correctly on results achieved.
  • Train students in the methods of hygiene inspections and ensure that they understand the reports and their distribution.
  • Training of QCs on analytical tests
-
Non-Conformance Handling

  • Raise NCR's for raw or packaging materials from initiation to completion and sign off. NCR App used for external NCR's and Shopware used for Internal NCR's.
  • Ensure product is isolated and quarantined and is sampled as per the NBL Sampling plan
  • Ensure inprocess investigations include a multidisciplinary team.
-
Plant hygiene and microbiological audits

  • Collect microbial swabs monthly on agreed areas, as per the schedule requirements and prepare them for dispatch to the service provider.
  • Collect monthly samples of finished produc

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