Company: Nestlé
Experience: Business experience in successfully implementing quality assurance programs.

Closing date: 13 June 2025
 

Position Summary

With a history spanning over 150 years, Nestlé didn’t become the world’s leading food and beverages brand by chance. Perfection is at the heart of what we do, and our people are always looking for the next big idea to cement our status. We are now looking for a Factory Quality Specialist to be based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Quality Specialist support their factory or PTC/R&D center in specific areas of expertise (e.g.  food safety, HACCP, auditing, hygiene, pest control, chemical contaminants, microbiology food safety, sensory, thermal processing, statistical process control, net content management etc.)

A day in the life of a Factory Quality Specialist: 

"People and know-how:

• Promote quality awareness across the company. Contribute to competence development of quality professionals across the organisation. "              

"System design:

• Define and update the specific quality procedures, instruction and tools which are directly related to their area of concern."   

 "Quality mastership:

• Supports the Nestlé Continuous Excellence program in the quest for zero defect, including root cause analysis after incidents (or near misses) and DMAIC.
• Supports activities to achieve compliance with the Nestlé Quality Management System requirements and other applicable instructions and standards.
• Deliver training for their specific areas of expertise."           

"Quality auditing and verification:

• In their specific area of expertise, assess that the Nestlé Quality Management System is in place, and is obtaining expected results in a given operating unit.    

What will make you successful?

Qualification Required:

• University graduate or equivalent (preferred food science related)

Operational Experience:

Demonstrated competence in their specific field to support business requirements:

- Team member in a factory: Quality, Production Support, Application

  Group, or,

- Team member in the quality department of the Market, PTC/R&D,

   Centre, NRC, NQACs

 Business Experience:

Experience in successfully implementing quality assurance programs:

- Participating in project teams

- Leading part of a change effort

- Participating in audit teams and/or improvement projects with more

  senior staff members

- Establishing networks of peers, in markets or factories

- 5 years’ experience in a similar role