Quality Controller

to specialise in production and quality management for export driven companies with great opportunities for career advancement.

United Refineries Limited (November 2001 to date)
Position: Quality Controller
Main purpose of the job: To coordinate the development, implementation, evaluation, and maintenance of a comprehensive and effective quality and regulatory program that complies with quality assurance regulations, ISO requirements, Corporate Regulatory Compliance and other applicable regulatory bodies or standards.

Responsibilities
• Responsible for maintenance of environmental management system by ;
- Investigating potential causes of pollution and taking preventive action.
- Liaising with city council on issues concerning liquid and solid effluent disposal
- Preparation of effluent analysis reports.
- Monitoring effluent treatment plant and ensure quality discharge of effluent that meets regulatory requirements.
• Quality assurance management and control
• Advising production on quality issues
• Supervision of laboratory personnel
• Reporting results to senior management on a timely manner.
• Stock controlling of laboratory consumables.
• Auditing departments for compliance to ISO 9001; 2000 quality management system requirements.
• Initiating corrective action on nonconformities.

Zimbabwe Sugar Refineries Limited (February 1999 ¡V October 2001)
Position: Laboratory technician
Main purpose of the job: To ensure production and delivery of quality products through timely quality and process control checks of incoming material, work in progress and finished product; and carry out investigative analysis related to material, product and process research and development
Main duties performed
• Sampling incoming raw and packaging materials, in-process and finished products.
• Analysing samples routinely and feeds back results to respective departments.
• Advises production departments in solving quality and process problems.
• Certifies finished products for dispatch to the market
• Conducts laboratory trials to produce prototype products and perform analyses and tests on produced prototypes.
• Implementation and maintenance of ISO 9001: 2000 Quality Management System

Post Graduate Diploma in Management - National University of Science and Technology (June 2008 ¡V May 2009)
Higher National Diploma in Applied Chemical Technology- Bulawayo Polytechnic -Zimbabwe, (2004-2005)

• ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems Internal Auditor
• ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management Systems Implementation & Performance Management.
• Bookkeeping and Accounts ¡V level 2

Achievements
„X Developed and assisted in the implementation of customer oriented tests for quality on various products at URL under Research and development.(2004-2005)
„X Optimization of the bleaching process of edible oil URL (2004-2005)
„X Implemented the production of tin releasing compound on an industrial scale.