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Date Posted: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed

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Job Summary
The Quality Controller –Is the custodian of Quality Management and Assurance Systems in the Body Building workshop. He/she supports the production process by ensuring compliance to government legislation and that company goals and standards are met and maintained.

Key Responsibilities
• Materials Management
• Creating bill of materials for all units in Bodybuilding
• Ensure production continuity through timely issuance of materials
• Issuing the right materials to workshop technicians
• Minimizing material wastage
• Managing the cutting list for buses and trucks
• Monitoring the cutting list for each bus & truck lines to ensure correct amount of materials is used
• Ensuring the correct quality of material is used in all buses & trucks
• Ensuring optimal usage of materials by the technicians
• Enhancing Material Accessibility
• Achieve the best workshop layout and planning for easy access of materials
• Improve material accessibility to make the fabrication process more efficient

Quality Control:
• Strictly carrying out step by step quality control checks in line with the Work In progress quality inspection checklist (from start to finish) on all units in production.
• Making drawings for all units in accordance to KEBS and KABM standards
• Ensuring that all buses conform to the KS372 KEBS standard to ensure that safety and comfort per government standards
• Production Support and Supervision:
• To provide support to body building staff to ensure the company targets and goals are met
• Assisting workshop leadership in supervising duties to ensure smooth running of workshop affairs
• Troubleshoot factors that may hinder production flow and continuity and address them early
• Assist in ensuring policy and procedure compliance by staff in the bodybuilding department
• Operation of sensitive machinery e.g. laser cutting machine and stencil cutter

Material Management:
• Generation of bill of materials for all units in Bodybuilding workshop
• Liaising with Internal Audit Department in the verification of and ascertaining the quality of materials being procured prior to receipt.
• Risk Mitigation and Cost Reduction:
• Identify possible risks and develop possible ways to mitigate them
• Create bills of materials that curb wastage
• Advice top management on action plans and controls to implement when gaps are identified

Training:
• Training body building staff on efficient processes for efficiency and increased performance
• Business Development & Customer Relations:
• Ensure that the company is kept informed of new development of new designs in the market
• Ensure that clients are treated with respect and dignity when they visit the workshop
• Promote satisfactory relations with stakeholders in order to bring in more business
• Promote the organization externally through wearing branded merchandise, social media and word of mouth
• Tools and Equipment Maintenance
• Ensure percentage planned maintenance, that is, machine breakdown due to bad quality of materials, is low
• Checking the conditions of the tools and equipment used to avoid any form of injury
• Design and Production Support
• Supervising construction of special trucks to ensure quality production
• Advising truck fabricators on how to fabricate special bodies while minimizing material cost
• Helping in design work to improve on aesthetics and ergonomics of the vehicle

Other Duties:
• Employee may be assigned any other tasks by management on a need basis

Principal Outputs Of This Role
• These should be Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant and Time bound objectives.
• Quality control of units from Body Building
• Constant Monitoring of set BOM
• Number of customer complaints
• Percentages of wasted materials
• Turnaround time of drawings

Authority
• Refer to Company Authority Matrix.

Accountability
• The Quality Controller is accountable to the Production Manager for the responsibilities stated in this job description. These responsibilities will be monitored and managed through the mid-year and annual performance review and supported through the monitoring of KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) .

Essential Personal Traits
Competencies:
• Decision making and Problem solving
• Analytical Skills
• Conflicts resolution and Negotiation
• Effective communication Skills
• Attention to detail
• People skills
• Strong Interpersonal skills
• Team Leader
• Team Player
• Improvement focus: self-organization, efficient
• High internal standard for success: excellent
• Self-Confident: influential, adaptable
• Takes initiative, self-starter

Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering or related Course.
• EBK Registration
• At least two (2) years’ experience of Quality Control in a Body Building Workshop.


Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: 24

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

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