Quality Control Supervisor

Thai Vegetable Oil Public Company Limited

Thai Vegetable Oil Public Company Limited (Nakhon Pathom)

Nakhon Pathom, Thailand

TVO is Southeast Asia's largest soybean oilseed processor, governing four crushing facilities and refineries in Thailand. TVO OIL utilizes soybean over 2,000,000 tons annually which can convert to cooking oil up to 400,000 tons per year. Founded in 1968, by the VITAYATANAGORN FAMILY. TVO has been publicly listed in Stock Exchange of Thailand in 1990. We have 4 Business Units. Feed, Consumer Cooking Oil, Industrial Cooking Oil, Import and Export Soybean and Soybean Oil. TVO determines to produce high quality products all through process, under the philosophy WE WILL PRODUCE QUALITY PRODUCT FOR BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE, we focus on research and development process to improve its quality of products TVO was certified standard ISO 14001 and also the first vegetable oil company in Thailand who've got Carbon Footprint, from Thailand Green House Gas Management Organization (Public Organization).

About this position

As the Quality Control Supervisor, you will play a pivotal role to ensure the raw materials, in-process control and finished goods meet or exceed TVO, customer and international standard specifications for quality and food-safety related requirements. In this role, you will develop the documentations of specific systems including instrumentation’s calibration and PM plan, Standard of procedure and Work instructions. Acting as a team liaison between QC and production/process team to support daily Plant production activities is also part of the role.

Responsibilities

• Manage and maintain all day-to-day QC operation activities to ensure quality compliance of raw materials, in-process control and finished goods from start to end.
• Ensure all analytical instruments are maintained in the optimum condition. Manage and ensure calibration and PM plan is always up-to-date and in accordance with Quality system regulatory compliance.
• Evaluate and prepare new testing and method validation according to new processes/products procedure to ensure the up-to-date method, accuracy and reliability.
• Supervise and train quality control inspectors, ensure that all team members are familiar with quality standards and procedures, and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the team.
• Investigate product complaints from the customer by working closely with sale & marketing department, assist the production/process in identifying root causes and implementing corrective actions to prevent recurrence.
• Resolves quality defects by directing investigation of the cause of non-conforming materials.
• Ensure quality system compliance to ISO9001, ISO/IEC17025, ISO45001, GMP, GHP, HACCP, FSSC22000 and Halal.
• Coordinating internal and external audit teams, ensuring all audit findings are addressed and corrective actions are implemented, and maintaining records of audit results and follow-up actions are also key responsibilities.
• Provide data support to customer service and marketing teams and prepare quality reports and presentations for internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree or higher in Chemistry, Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Microbiology, Food Science or closely related discipline.
• Minimum 3-5 Years experience in Laboratory quality control/assurance, ideally, in Food & beverage, edible oil, feed or FMCG manufacturing environment.
• Familiar and experienced in Laboratory analytical instruments such as GC, HPLC, Auto titrator, Karl-Fischer, Lovibond color, Viscometer and Proximate analysis etc.
• Good understanding in Food safety regulation, Food Manufacturing Process, functional food, edible oil.