Purpose of the Job

• Drive, direct and manage quality control and assurance activities which contributes to the production of quality products that satisfies the customer and organisation's requirements.

Who You Are

• You are highly competent
• You have built trust relationships
• You are an expert in your field
• You are passionate about Quality
• You have excellent interpersonal skills
• You have a reputation for getting the job done right first time

What you'll have done before:

Baseline:

• 5 years in Quality Assurance and Lab services
• NQF 7 Qualification in Chemistry or Quality
• 2 years in managing staff.
• Proven knowledge in ISO 9001 and 17025, IATF 16949; VDA 6.3 & VDA 6.5
• Exceptional analytical skills
• Report writing skills
• Experience working with Lubricant or related petroleum products
• Advanced computer skills

Advantageous:

• B-Tech qualification in Chemistry or Quality
• 5 years' experience in Lubricants environment
• 5 years' experience in managing staff
• 2 years working experience with IATF 16949 and VDA 6.3

Exciting Challenges you might face in the role

• Applies knowledge of the current marketplace to advance the organisation's strategic goals
• Drives the Quality culture within the Organisation
• Creates an environment of continuous improvement and innovation
• Operate effectively, even when things are not certain, or the way forward is not clear
• Ability to work successfully in an ever-changing environment and navigate ambiguity

What you'll be doing

• Establish, implement and maintain quality assurance policies; procedures and practices.
• Assess the laboratories, plants, remote locations and suppliers against the Quality Management System requirements to improve the system and ensure compliance to accreditation/ certification, customer and business requirements.
• Conduct RCA for quality related incidents including customer complaints and propose recommendations to prevent recurrence.
• Manage the DC laboratories. Support the plant towards SLA compliance
• Lead and manage the laboratory method validation to assure that methods used are fit for purpose and met customer requirements.
• Implement, manage, maintain, laboratory practices ensuring that laboratory targets are achieved and confidence in the product quality and customer satisfaction is sustained.
• Assess laboratory staff against test method requirements in order to provide assurance of the results generated.
• Propose the annual laboratory operational expense budget ensuring that the plan is aligned to the overall business expectations and is cost effective.
• Develop long term capex plans that ensures the laboratory's sustainability and uninterrupted quality control service to customers.
• Develop team capability through facilitation, knowledge & skills transfer while fostering team effectiveness staff mentoring, career development, staff retention & succession planning
• You'll create an atmosphere that ensures