Quality Control Manager

Company Description
Lesaffre, which is a global reference in the yeast industry with its more than 170 years of accumulated knowledge, has been transmitting its international experience to Turkish bakery industry since 1992.
We unite the Lesaffre experience with our wide-spectrum user population by means of our over 600 employees and our production facilities, including our production facility in Lüleburgaz, which we have incorporated into our structure in 2015, in addition to our production facilities in Ceyhan and in Amasya, which have been in use since 1992, the year we started operating in Turkey.
We work to become the closest business partner of our users with the help of our brands which specifically address diverse needs. For bakers and home users, we produce yeast in different forms. In addition to yeast, we also provide baking solutions like bread improvers, bread mixes, and blends to bakery sector. The products that we produce are used with confidence in more than 80 countries, including Turkey.
In order to be able to fulfill our social responsibilities regarding the environment and our society by means of our R&D activities, we annually allocate approximately 30% of our industrial investments to policies on the protection of the environment.
As the key player of the global bread industry, our vision is ‘to delight people with innovative bread making and nutrition solutions for a better planet’.  And our mission of ‘ working together to better nourish and protect the planet ’  carries Lesaffre to the future.
About the Role
Lesaffre Türkiye is seeking an experienced Quality Control Manager to lead factory quality control operations, ensuring product quality, food safety and compliance with relevant standards. The role will focus on managing laboratory and quality processes, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring operational excellence across the organization.

Job Description
Key Responsibilities
• Plan, manage and oversee factory quality control activities in accordance with the Quality Control Plan, ensuring the effectiveness and compliance of control methods, frequencies and results.
• Manage quality control processes for raw materials, packaging materials, semi-finished and finished products; make acceptance, rejection and conditional acceptance decisions in accordance with relevant procedures.
• Evaluate incoming material, in-process and finished product non-conformities; plan and manage root cause analyses, corrective and preventive actions.
• Ensure compliance with quality and food safety requirements, applicable legal regulations, company standards and procedures issued by Group Quality.
• Ensure that quality control activities, environmental analyses and compliance checks throughout production, storage and shipment processes are properly conducted and recorded.
• Manage laboratory operations; ensure the accuracy and reliability of analyses, verification of analytical methods, and proper calibration and maintenance of laboratory equipment.
• Coordinate the preparation of product and raw material specifications in collaboration with the Quality Assurance Department.
• Ensure that the necessary quality tests and trials are conducted during the introduction of new products, raw materials, packaging materials and equipment; evaluate and report the results.
• Manage supplier approval, performance evaluation and audit processes; coordinate the resolution of supplier-related quality non-conformities and supplier performance improvement initiatives.
• Manage customer complaint evaluation, root cause analysis and resolution processes; conduct customer visits when necessary.
• Actively participate in internal and external audits; coordinate audit preparations, evaluation of audit findings and completion of action plans.
• Manage quality approval processes for finished product release and make decisions to stop production when necessary to ensure quality and food safety.
• Define and monitor departmental objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs); continuously improve the performance and effectiveness of quality control processes.
• Identify the equipment, devices and consumables required for quality control activities; plan and manage the department's operational and investment budgets.
• Manage quality control activities related to wastewater and by-products and monitor their results.
• Lead lean manufacturing and continuous improvement initiatives; plan and implement improvement projects within the area of responsibility.
• Lead, develop and guide team members; set team objectives, monitor employee performance and support their professional development.
• Ensure effective collaboration and coordination with relevant departments to improve the efficiency of quality control processes.

Qualifications
Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering, Biology, Microbiology, Biochemistry, Chemistry or a related field.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in quality control, quality assurance or food safety, preferably in the food manufacturing industry.
• Experience in laboratory management and team leadership.
• Good command of written and spoken English.
• Proficiency in SAP, QDMS and MS Office applications.
• Knowledge of quality management systems and food safety standards, including HACCP, ISO 9001 and ISO 22000 / FSSC 22000, Halal and Kosher.
• Strong leadership, analytical thinking, problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Effective communication, coordination and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Additional Information
• 🔗An international environment where you get to discover new cultures every day 
• 🌱 Learning and growing while contributing to local or global projects,
• 💪🏼  An extensive global e-learning platform to support professional and technical development,
• 🍃 Varying numbers of initiatives in contributing to our CSR activities.

This role requires Turkish language. 
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