QC Jobs at PepsiCo | Chemistry Graduates Apply Now
Are you looking for a rewarding opportunity in the FMCG sector? PepsiCo is hiring an Executive – Online Quality professional in Guwahati, offering a great career path for candidates seeking QC Jobs, Executive Jobs, and MSc Chemistry Jobs. This role ensures top-notch product quality, compliance, and efficient production processes in a dynamic, growth-driven environment.
About PepsiCo
At PepsiCo, we strive to be the global leader in convenient foods and beverages by winning with purpose. We bring smiles to our consumers and customers through delicious, nutritious and affordable products, produced sustainably. This commitment makes PepsiCo an excellent workplace for candidates looking for QC Jobs, Executive Jobs, and MSc Chemistry Jobs in the food and beverage industry.
- Position: Executive – Online Quality
- Location: Guwahati, India
- Department: Supply Chain
- Job ID: 423492
- Full-Time/Part-Time: Yes – Standard
- Relocation: Yes
Job Description
Overview
Ensuring the best quality of product and minimum customer complaints through stringent online quality control checks and finished product inspection by QC Jobs. Implementing the right quality control systems/standards for the processes, physical systems and environment. Troubleshooting during online production to minimise wastage and ensure quality control of jobs. Responsible for maintaining GMP
, GHK GLP and internal/external audits (HACCP, AIB, Personal Hygiene, Process audit). Root cause and failure analysis for quality defects and implementation of the corrective actions.Responsibilities
- Conducting online quality checks in the process area to ensure that all FLI standards of quality are followed during the production process.
- Ensuring that all key operating parameters of machines are in the specified range (Peelers, Fryers, Slicer for thickness average and range, Chip Conveyors, Seasoning Tumbler).
- Ensuring optimum utilisation of fryer oil.
- Conducting product weak link analysis according to the stipulated frequency.
- Conducting regular quality wall meetings with S/I, Pkg leader & operatives for discussing quality defects detected online and then deciding the measures to rectify the problems.
- Ensuring PAE analysis is conducted by operatives every hour for all lines.
- Ensuring corrective actions are taken for all deviations in quality parameters.
- Communicating concern areas and corrective actions to the concerned shift in charge and the production manager promptly.
- Informing the Quality Manager in case test results indicate a crisis situation.
- Conducting online quality checks and finished products’ inspection in the packaging area to ensure compliance with Frito-Lay standards of quality.
- Ensuring that the Quality Checkers conduct packaging quality analysis as per the laid protocol.
- Conducting random film quality checks on the basis of any special complaints received from the production department.
- Consulting the quality manager in case of criticalities.
- Ensuring that the corrective action is implemented.
- Driving product Wall evaluation to ascertain product quality status.
- Monitoring machines in the process and packaging area, specifically for their effect on quality and ensuring minimum waste due to machine-related factors.
- Ensuring that the slicer blade is changed as per the defined frequency.
- Ensuring that the peeler rollers/KKR parts are changed periodically to avoid any impact on product quality.
- Process capability studies are conducted for the seasoning system, and corrective actions are taken to improve Cp/Cpk in case found low.
- Maintaining accurate and comprehensive reports for communication to all the people concerned.
- Ensuring that the quality checkers make correct entry of leakage & weight in SAP for each shift.
- Circulating shift quality report consisting of key product & packaging quality parameters.
- Ensuring that the operators make PAE recording in the assigned format on an hourly basis.
- Submitting a Weekly & Monthly Quality Report on key product & packaging quality parameters.
- Conducting a housekeeping audit to ensure the implementation of safety and hygiene practices in the entire plant.
- Inspecting the process and packaging area to ensure that the working conditions, like lighting, placement of material on the shop floor, are as per standard requirements and that there are no unsafe conditions in the plant.
- Ensuring no spillage/unhygienic conditions around equipment.
- Handling the hold material for minimising wastage.
- Ensuring that the hold material is cleared within 48 hours of the hold-up.
- Awarding Red, White and Yellow Non-Compliance Disposition (NCD) Tags to the hold material after detailed analysis.
- Reporting the status of the tags to the production department, stating the reasons for the hold-up.
- Ensuring adherence to statutory laws (Weights and Measures & FSSA) and internal controls.
- Increasing awareness about statutory laws.
- Maintaining accurate statutory records.
- Compliance with I2C key controls.
- Effective resolution of customer complaints.
- Assisting the quality manager in analysing root causes of complaints and developing a forward action plan.
- Implementing the action plan.
- Ensuring the complaint does not occur again.
- Documenting all quality procedures, systems, standards, findings, hazards and corrective actions systematically.
- Support in driving the training agenda.
- Training operatives for TPOD, seasoning, oil quality, meal quality, and packaging quality.
- Leading LTI initiatives to ensure the timely completion of trials and the implementation of improved packaging configuration.
Qualifications
- M.Sc. Chemistry, Food Tech Degree, Post Graduate in Food tech, Post Graduate in dairy technology.
- 2 to 6 years of experience in Food/Beverage/FMCG industry.
- Exposure to food safety systems and ISO systems.
- Preferably, Knowledge of HACCP/AIB and TPM.
