Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Engineer

Requisition ID: 9614
Location: Ewekoro, Ogun

About the Job

• Within the framework of the plant’s objectives and yearly action plans, implement the short, medium and long-term strategies to meet the plant products specifications.

What you’ll be doing

• Performs all tasks in a safe and efficient manner.
• Communicate clearly on information relating to potentially dangerous situations and get confirmation that they are correctly understood.
• Check that chemical and physical testing is correctly handled. Ensure a good utilization and a safe storage of tests and products.
• Analyse risks related to sampling points and make sure they are correctly addressed.
• Coordinate the implementation and update of the plant Quality Management System in conjunction with the Quality manager and monitor its implementation.
• Follow the quality of products on a daily basis and take all appropriate actions to ensure that customers do not receive out of specification products.
• Define internal quality objectives for intermediate products.
• Analyse specific risks regarding quality. Implement preventive actions when necessary.
• Implement specific procedure when necessary to address quality incidents.
• Follow and implement the evolution of products official standards.
• Design and implement the relevant Quality Control Plans
• Follow up on a daily basis the compliance with these plans in order to guarantee the quality of the products ready to be dispatched.
• Participate in quality audit and champion the performance of Laboratory round robin test as organized by the TC.
• Define the missions and objectives of his/her workforce and carry out their performance reviews, promote the quality of the work and motivate his/her personnel, develop their skills to keep abreast with new management methods and tools.
• Comply with EMS Quality Instrumentation activities
• Ensure involvement in the implementation and maintenance of integrated management system in the plant.

Who you’ll be working with:

• Reporting Line: Quality Assurance Analyst.

What we are looking for

• Working knowledge of cement manufacturing processes:
• Raw meal preparation, burning, combustion, grinding and packing operation.
• Commitment to the highest standards of safe work habits
• Good knowledge of safety laws and regulations.
• Good written and verbal communications skills
• BSc / HND or equivalent in Chemistry, Laboratory Technology, Chemical Engineering
• 3 – 5 years postgraduate experience in a process industry.

Technical competencies:

•  Working knowledge of cement manufacturing process.
•  Working knowledge of equipment operation procedure.
•  Able to take initiative based on sound problem solving skills.

Behavioural competencies:

• Good interpersonal relationship
• Demonstrated leadership skills via work ethics, ability to delegate and motivate, fairness, etc
• Result oriented.

Managerial competencies:

• Team player.
• Good aptitude for organization and communication
• Anticipative.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.