Tupande Senior Quality Assurance Supervisor (Fixed-term)

One Acre Fund is a nonprofit organization that supplies smallholder farmers in East Africa with asset-based financing and agriculture training services to reduce hunger and poverty.

Tupande Senior Quality Assurance Supervisor (Fixed-term)

About the Role

• We are seeking a Senior Quality Assurance Supervisor with a minimum of 2 years experience who will support the daily compliance and quality assurance processes of the macadamia factory from receipt through processing to dispatch of products ensuring compliance to customer, internal, legal and statutory requirements

Responsibilities

Materials Management (Raw & Processing Aids)

• Raw Material Intake: Oversee the Raw Material receiving checks. Verify the quality of incoming raw nuts (Good quality, SKR, Moisture content)

• Packaging Inventory: Manage the quality of packaging materials and other processing aids before acceptance to the processing factory

Product Integrity & Quality Assurance

• Finished Product Compliance: Oversee the grading and classification of macadamia kernels to ensure they meet international standards and customer specifications regarding size, color, and quality defect limits.

• In Process Quality Control: Manage the hourly sampling regime at key stages (Cracking, Sorting, Drying). Ensure operators are correctly identifying critical defects such as immature nuts, insect damage, and mold.

• Sensory Analysis: Enforce organoleptic testing protocols to detect early signs of rancidity (oxidative stability) or off-flavors caused by improper drying or storage.

• Hold & Release: Authority to place On Hold any batch of nuts that fails moisture specs or shows signs of contamination, preventing it from reaching the packing line.

• Verify monitoring records for defined Critical Control Points (e.g., drying temperatures for Salmonella control, metal detection for physical hazards).

• Conduct independent verification checks on CCP records to ensure accuracy and prevent record falsification

• Monitor Operational Prerequisite Programs (OPRPs) such as allergen controls (if applicable), sieving, or sorting performance.

• Immediately escalate deviations from critical limits and ensure corrective actions are implemented and documented.

Management of Team Performance (Quality of Inspectors)

Monitoring the Monitors, You are responsible for the accuracy of your team.

• QA Inspectors: Support in the incoming material checks, in process line checks, sorting/operators team quality of work against standards and final packing inspectors quality of work

• Sanitation Inspectors: Inspect the cleaners work after they finish but before production starts. Provide immediate feedback if residue is found.