Company Description
Eurofins Assurance India Pvt Ltd is a leading certification body providing Audit & Certification, Inspections, and other services covering the broad spectrum of sustainable supply chain.
Eurofins will help the customers to mitigate risks in their supply chain and to ensure the benchmarking performance with operations, processes, systems, people or capabilities.
Whether you are in Food, Cosmetics, Consumer products or Health care sector, our global auditor and technical expert network will help to mitigate/eliminate your risks against supply chain and distribution flows: Regulatory and Industrial standards.
We have accreditations for a number of different industry standards/memberships to ensure we service the entire supply chain.
Job Description
Job Scope and Accountabilities:
- Manage the compliance of IAF, Accreditation Boards and applicable regional accreditation associations requirements.
- Manage the compliance with the unique requirements of various schemes GFSI/ Non GFSI
- Act as Certification Authority Representative, for Management Systems related Schemes.
- Manage the compliance company’s policy, processes, and procedures requirements.
- Create the awareness of the compliance of Code of Ethics, Zero tolerance Policy, Compliance code within the team.
- Technically proficient on IAF guidelines, ISO 17021, ISO22003, 1SO 17065 REQUIREMENTS.
- Maintain the timelines of getting new accreditations , schemes and manage strong governance of all schemes in accordance to scheme/ accreditation rules.
Supervisory Responsibilities:
- Mentoring & Support of Technical executives, Auditors / Back office executives.
- Monitoring and support to Operational activities.
Duties:
- To understand the role of impartiality when providing certification activities and the process of taking independent action where necessary, (e.g. informing authorities, accreditation bodies, stakeholders)
- To maintain the specific management system standards and normative documents. Understanding of the requirements of the Accreditation Body.
- To maintain applicable laws and regulations for the implementation of certification services.
- To update knowledge of Accreditation Bodies’ processes & requirements.
- To demonstrate the management expertise and ability to lead and take decisions. Review the decisions taken by technical Team relating to certification/verification including the granting, refusing, maintaining of certification/verification, expanding or reducing the scope of certification/verification, renewing, suspending or restoring following suspension, or withdrawing of certification/verification of a Management Systems schemes certification/verification.
- To demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with all stakeholders (e.g. Impartiality Committee, Directors, AB and scheme owners)
- Upgrade the knowledge of local social, economic, and business environment.
- To ensure and review the high Competence of auditors.
- To ensure and review the compliance of qualifications and competency of auditors and approvals, satisfactory completion of training of auditors by calibration meetings, training audits, witness audits, approvals of auditors, monitors of work local office, suggests/approves term, and plan of calibration/harmonization meetings with auditors.
- To conduct audits whenever required and coach other auditors to deliver high standard of auditing.
- To upgrade existing and build new schemes in conjunction with management goals and initiatives, provide all technical support in pitching new products and help achieving necessary approval w.r.t schemes , regulatory bodies.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in appropriate discipline Preferably Food Science
- Lead auditor course FSMS/ FSSC /QMS or equivalent
- Minimum 5 year of experience in Technical, Audits, preferably from a CB company.
- Minimum 4 years of experience in food industry preferably production or quality department.
- Mid senior level exposure in handling technical governance , certifications and accreditations
Additional Information
- Good written and verbal communication skills
- Operational Excellence and demonstrated ability to deliver results in multiple challenging situations.
- Team-focused with the ability to achieve or exceed objectives while working collaboratively with other team members to achieve mutual success.
- Good at Presentations
- High leadership and supervisory skills
- Result oriented
- Problem solving
- Good at Retention