Job Description

Quality Auditor-2

Join the team behind iconic brands like Huggies®, Kleenex®, Cottonelle®, Scott®, Kotex®, Poise®, Depend®, and Kimberly-Clark Professional®. At Kimberly-Clark, it’s all here for you—innovation, growth, and the chance to make a real impact.

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center.

We are looking for a Quality Auditor provides on-shift support to Operations in regard to product specification and quality systems issues. To provide laboratory tests for finished products and raw materials ensuring support to Operations.

Key Responsibilities:

• Perform work in a safe manner and responsible to follow 3 safety obligations.

• Share expertise and knowledge of product quality and the consumer impact with operation's crews. Coach Operations crew on product quality and ensure that operators focus on CTQ parameters and visual checks

• Provide accurate and timeous testing results to identify and correct quality deficiencies on shift. Conduct all performance tests as per required (WI-07666)

• Attend daily shift hand over, production and QA meeting with CTQ report information and defected product samples.

• Perform incoming packaging &corrugated case inspections and review documentation and determine disposition of key raw materials.

• Complete NCR documents with additional investigation & test and send it to LCM to request supplier’s feedback.

• Compiling of quality reports and accumulating quality statistical data, update QA board daily (RFT-Make, ppm etc.) and share daily CTQ report via e-mail with operation team.

• Perform root cause analysis on out-of specification product with operation team.

• Execute Quality Protocols and complete documentation, follow action plan.

• Support R&E team with trials by performing relevant STM and providing results and recommendation to R&E

• Complete KC 9001 Internal Audits as per Plant schedule and capture findings as CAPA’s on EtQ

• Complete Board 0 Form for Finished Product non-conformances ensuring all required information is completed include 5WHY investigation and follow the NCP process (put sticker, complete Board0 report, update on hold /reject spreadsheet list daily).

• Complete weekly calibration & verification with related equipment’s and record it on the same day, every Monday record should be checked by following shift.

• Complete monthly calibration & verification 1st week of the month and record it on the same day, record should be checked by following shift.

• Follow up on the approved waivers and ensuring assets teams are updated.

• Place pictures/examples of key defects on the boards in QA part as ref, ensure they are updated at least Daily - track (QA) and report.

• Support Mill Quality Manager with entrenching EtQ spec module use within Epping

• Conduct customer complaint analysis of samples & complete QA Ad hoc tasks

• Conduct Daily GMP for Epping Mill and send out the GMP findings Daily.

You will be maintaining equipment associated with the production, packaging and distribution of Kimberly-Clark products through preventative, predictive and corrective maintenance work. This role is part of Kimberly-Clark’s investment in creating new jobs and expanding its capabilities to produce premium products that are essential to millions of lives around the world. It starts with YOU.

To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualifications:

• A formal qualification in Quality or National Diploma/ bachelor’s degree in food science, Microbiology, Chemistry with a minimum 1-2 years quality experience in FMCG environment as a Quality Control Inspector.
• Experience in ISO 9001 standards will be an advantage
• Computer Literacy.
• Good communication and analytical skills.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

And finally, the fine print….

For Kimberly-Clark to grow and prosper, we must be an inclusive organization that applies the diverse experiences and passions of its team members to brands that make life better for people all around the world, which is why we seek to build a workforce that encompasses the experiences of our consumers.  When you bring your original thinking to Kimberly-Clark, you fuel the continued success of our enterprise. We are a committed equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, pregnancy, genetic information, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

The statements above are intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by employees assigned to this classification. Statements are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and skills required for this position.

Employment is subject to verification of local policies.

Primary Location

Cape Town Epping Plant

Additional Locations

Worker Type

Employee

Worker Sub-Type

Regular

Time Type

Full time