Lab Coordinator/Manager

SUMMARY:
The incumbent will be responsible for providing technical service and support to Operations by ensuring quality checks, standards conformance and food safety adherence in the transfer/blending/testing of the yeast production stream and normal laboratory duties.

POSITION INFO:
Required:

• Admin:
  • Data collection/recording/data capturing/filing/ ordering consumables/invoice payments.
  • Creating COC's & COA's for IDY's, specialities & nutrients.
  • Tanker/stock recon spreadsheets.
  • Filing certificates, worksheets, and temp charts.
  • Sending and receiving ad hoc samples for testing between business units.
• Lab Activities/Analyses & Responsibilities:
  • Coordinating all analyses on IDY, cream, BDY and specialities.
  • Preparing salt solutions for lab & drying plant.
  • Daily sample collection & analysis from cream loading, drying, BCY and packaging.
  • Coordinating the testing of molasses/effluent.
  • Cultures preparation and slant stock takes.
  • Archiving retention samples.
  • Coordinating vitamin and nutrient makeup and the recording of usages variances.
  • Effective organization of the cold room and retention library.
• Product Testing Against Specifications: Accurate & precise testing against published, validated work instructions/reporting deviations and proposing areas for improvement.
• Test Equipment Calibration: Equipment calibration/ring test analysis to ensure the accuracy of analyses in addition to normalizing and variations between ring tests.
• BSc Microbiology.
• Minimum 2 years’ Lab Supervisor / Co-ordinator or related experience in a production environment.