Quality Supervisor

**Minimum requirements for the role**:

- Must have a Diploma in Agriculture, Agronomy or related field
- Minimum 5 years experience in seed processing is essential
- Knowledge of foundation seeds would be a distinct advantage
- Must have ISO 9001:2018 knowledge and auditing experience
- Good communication, report writing and analytics skills will be required
- Must be able to collaborate across the functions to provide optimization, maintenance and site support
- Ensuring foundation field quality/ processes, postharvest, plant processes of foundation, seed storage and preservation meet regulatory, business and customer specifications in South Africa.
- Ensuring all non-conforming foundation seeds are segregated from field to plant and warehouse/ storage level.
- Providing technical advice to plant operations regarding foundation seed processing activities in order to maintain high seed quality during processing.
- Acting as the point of contact for all Quality related matters for South Africa seed processes.
- Adhering to the implementation and upkeep of the Quality Management System in the plant.
- Collection of reliable Quality data which can assist in track and trace and applied for continual improvement for foundation seed processing activities.
- Continuously monitoring plant foundation production processes from receiving to final product to ensure that a high standard of quality and integrity of foundation batches are maintained at all stages.
- Ensuring foundation seed operations adhere to testing strategy.
- Liaising with the lab and the foundation quality release team to ensure only compliant batches are released.
- Collaborating with foundation team to identify quality trends, non-conformance investigations and associated corrective and/or preventive actions.
- Coordinating the sampling of all foundation seed within process and carry-over inventory for decision-making.
- Conducting pre-processing defects tests on all foundation seeds staged for processing to ensure defective batches are processed or treated and bagged.
- Performing in-processing checks (defects testing, weights, stitching, labelling) to ensure defective seed/bags are reworked.
- Supporting foundation field production team with inspections.