Saro Agro-Allied Limited is a leading agricultural commodity exporting company that started in 1996 as a cocoa trading company and today trades both locally and internationally. Our operations over time have covered sesame seeds, cashew, and cocoa-producing communities in Nigeria. The business has been repositioned to become a Consumer driven sustainable Agric. & Food business Company that will play in the multi-seed oil crushing, value-added export, and marketing of branded food products in Nigeria.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Quality Officer

Location: Kontagora, Niger
Employment Type: Full-time

Job Description

• The Procurement Quality Officer must always align the company’s quality control function with best standards at all times that will make the company adhere to contract specifications.

Primary Responsibilities

• Representative sampling and quality measurement of goods on arrival from the supplier’s store i.e moisture, sand and stones, admixtures, damaged and broken, immature, green seeds (for Soya bean).
• Representative sampling and quality measurement of goods on arrival from the supplier’s store i.e moisture, green grain, red grain, average length, crackness and discoloured grain (for Paddy).
• Proper and timely reporting of all inspection results based on acceptance and rejection criteria.
• Visual inspection to detect adulterations like Clusters, Foreign Matters & foreign odour.
• Quality analysis testing and documentation for stock evacuation
• Producing statistical feedbacks on quality deviations and reporting to the Head of Unitarising quality standard issues.
• Adherence to quality parameters for accepting vendors’ supplies.
• Collaboration with warehouse officer for good warehouse practice and inventory control
• Maintain professional relationship with collaborators that will aid in delivering planned strategy.
• To Manage the quality loss for SAA key crops within the budgeted parameters
• Ensure data integrity of all analytics and report.

Qualifications / Experience

• Minimum of a University Degree with Second Class (Upper Division)
• Minimum of 4 years experience, preferably in commodity business and has held Quality roles to variously commodities such as Soya bean, Paddy, etc.
• Age: 28 – 38 years.

Competencies Required:

• Proactive self-starter
• Integrity, independent mind, and ability to work under pressure.
• Highly organized and significant ability to multi-task effectively
• Ability to work with all levels of the team with minimal and reasonable conflicts.
• Good attitude.

Application Closing Date
27th October, 2023.