• Test food products and non-food products and any other items which require analysis in accordance with standard operating procedures, techniques, national, international and industry standards or client’s guidelines.
• Ensure all activities are carried out in compliance with the laboratory’s QA/QC system with an emphasis on ISO/IEC 17025:2017 and ensure cGLP compliance where applicable.
• Adhere to health and safety measures regarding general hygiene, sample testing, sample retention, disposal/destruction.
• Responsible for carrying out chemical and physical analysis on food/agricultural products and non-food products.
• Always employ fit for purpose test methods, standards and techniques and always apply them consistently in all analysis carried out.
• Responsible for housekeeping in the laboratory and ensuring that work is carried out in a clean and safe environment.
• To ensure that raw data of analyses carried out clearly supports results obtained prior to subsequent approvals.
• Keep abreast with all the latest developments of analytical standards related to proximate and nutritional analysis technologies to continuously develop new methods and capabilities for validation and final adoption.
• Ensure that work records, samples and auxiliary documents are kept properly and organized in such manner as to be easy to retrieve and process.
• To ensure that process control form is strictly followed and fully completed throughout the analysis process
• Be knowledgeable of the scope of all processes under chemical laboratory.

Requirements

Qualifications

• A Degree in Chemistry, Analytical Chemistry, Industrial Chemistry, Biochemistry, Food Science & Technology, Applied Chemistry, or equivalent qualification from recognized institution.
• Two-years laboratory testing experience in a chemical or food laboratory.
• Good knowledge of ISO/IEC 17025:2017, ISO 9001:2015, HSE standards and cGLP
• Have a working knowledge of applications used in wet chemistry, physical analysis and instrumentation analysis in food and feed testing scope.
• Significant exposure and experience on equipment such as Automatic Distillation Units, fiber analyzers, Soxhlet systems, UV/Visible Spectrophotometer, tintometers etc.
• Foster Innovation, embrace change, think strategically and translate the strategies into actions.
• Influence Externally and Internally and be able to deliver superior results.
• Have sound knowledge of laboratory work particularly test methods in food analysis.

Additional Information

• The incumbents will be involved in Laboratory analysis activities for the company. He/she will be involved in ensuring that all activities are carried out in compliance with the laboratory’s QA/QC system and more specifically ISO/IEC 17025:2017.