Role Overview

Capwell Industries Limited, a leading food manufacturing company in Kenya, is looking to hire a Quality Analyst to support our Quality Assurance function at our Thika plant. This role is critical in ensuring product safety, quality compliance, and adherence to food safety standards across our manufacturing operations.

Key Responsibilities

• The Quality Analyst will play a critical role in safeguarding product integrity and ensuring compliance across our manufacturing operations. Key responsibilities will include:
• Conduct in-process quality inspections at critical control points (CCPs) to ensure adherence to approved product specifications and standard operating procedures
• Inspecting and verifying raw materials, packaging materials, and finished goods against defined quality standards prior to release
• Monitoring and enforcing compliance with HACCP, GMP, ISO 22000, and internal Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS)
• Maintaining accurate quality documentation, including batch records, inspection logs, traceability reports and deviation registers
• Supporting and maintaining product traceability systems and mock recall exercises to ensure regulatory and audit readiness
• Investigating quality deviations, non-conformances and customer complaints, conducting root cause analysis, and implementing effective corrective and preventive actions (CAPA)
• Performing routine and specialized laboratory analyses, ensuring calibration and accuracy of testing equipment
• Conducting hygiene, sanitation and 5S audits within the plant to maintain high food safety standards
• Supporting internal and external audits, regulatory inspections and continuous improvement initiatives
• Preparing timely, accurate quality reports and escalating risks proactively to management
• This is a hands-on plant-based role requiring strong collaboration with Production, Supply Chain, and Quality leadership to ensure operational excellence and continuous improvement.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Food Technology or related field
• Minimum 2 years’ experience in FMCG or food manufacturing and in quality assurance & control programs
• Practical exposure to QA/QC testing and plant-based quality systems
• Strong working knowledge of HACCP, GMP and ISO 22000
• High attention to detail and strong documentation discipline
• Ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced production environment

Key Competences

• Is safety-conscious and quality-driven
• Highest level of personal integrity and accountability
• Is comfortable challenging deviations on the production floor
• Can balance laboratory precision with operational realities
• Detail-oriented, efficient, able to multi-task, prioritize and follow projects through to completion
• Results driven with a strong customer service orientation