Quality Control (QC) Foreman

Job Summary

The Quality Control (QC) Foreman is responsible for ensuring the quality, safety, and compliance of fish feeds, processing plant operations, and logistics hygiene across Kivu Choice's footprints. This role involves hands-on quality monitoring from initial feed intake through to final product dispatch. The incumbent will maintain accurate QC records, enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and execute HACCP requirements to strictly uphold corporate and regulatory quality benchmarks.

Qualification

• Bachelor's degree in Quality Management, Food Science, Aquaculture, or a related field.
• Comprehensive technical knowledge of HACCP and established food safety management systems is strictly required.

Experience

• Minimum of 1–3 years of experience in a fish handling or food quality management role.
• Proven experience working with regulatory compliance frameworks governing food safety and quality standards.
• Experience managing quality logs, conducting audit-ready record keeping, and monitoring industrial sanitation processes.

Core Duties and Responsibilities

Feed Quality Control:

• Conduct rigorous sampling and testing of incoming fish feed shipments delivered by cargo trucks.
• Audit manufacturing expiration dates, feed floating/sinking properties, structural bag quantities, and ambient dust levels.
• Ensure absolute compliance with feed product specifications and monitor warehouse storage environments to prevent spoilage or deterioration.

Processing Plant Quality, Hygiene & Sanitation:

• Monitor the internal quality of fish inside the processing plant and enforce high hygiene benchmarks across the active floor.
• Conduct strict machinery hygiene checks and execute sanitation control protocols.
• Proactively detect raw product quality issues or onset spoilage across processing layouts, cold rooms, and storage facilities.
• Oversee and audit hygiene standards across downstream logistics centers and distribution branches.
• Ensure all processing floor workers adhere to personal hygiene regulations and protective wear (PPE) requirements.
• Monitor the implementation of farm-level biosecurity measures to eliminate disease outbreak or cross-contamination vectors.
• Ensure all processes maintain total alignment with Rwanda legal and regulatory food mandates.

SOPs, HACCP Compliance & Corrective Action:

• Ensure strict operational adherence to SOPs and HACCP parameters during all daily quality control activities.
• Design and conduct targeted quality control training modules for plant staff regarding standards and procedural mechanics.
• Identify, document, and report non-conformances, quality deviations, and customer complaints to the line manager.
• Support the rollout of corrective actions, assist in process improvements, and contribute to root-cause investigations for fish spoilage, contamination, or quality failures.

Documentation & Traceability:

• Catalog all samples pulled from production and maintain comprehensive, complete QC registries.
• Manage high-accuracy records to support end-to-end product traceability and continuous corporate audit readiness.
• Draft and submit structured QC summaries and performance reports directly to the Quality, Health, and Safety (QHS) Manager.

Skills & Competencies

Technical:

• HACCP implementation and food quality auditing
• Food spoilage detection, biology, and cold-chain diagnostics
• Traceability logging and technical inventory auditing
• Biosecurity protocol enforcement and decontamination oversight

Behavioural:

• Exceptional, uncompromising attention to detail
• Excellent time management and team coordination abilities
• Proficient at multitasking and navigating competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Clear communication skills to manage floor workers and interface with senior management
• Exceptional, uncompromising attention to detail
• Excellent time management and team coordination abilities
• Proficient at multitasking and navigating competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Clear communication skills to manage floor workers and interface with senior management

Skills Required:

• Agricultural / Studies
• Food / Technology / Science / Engineering
• Quality / Safety