QUALITY ASSURANCE MANAGER - GREENLINE EXPORTS LIMITED - Nairobi
(2024-11)
Ensure that the laid down Quality management systems are adhered to at all times within production unit ensuring that the product conforms in terms of quality, safety, integrity, authenticity and legality.
- Investigating and looking for ways of improving the current systems / practice applied in production whenever there is a change in supermarket standards.
- Understanding the requirements for audits and customer visits and be able to help in preparation for the visits / audits.
- Ensuring that the documents / records in use are current, the correct versions and completed in a way that it is unambiguous and clear.
- Ensure that the package is well equipped with required QA working tools including effective cleaning equipment, traceability aids, and conforming measuring devices.
- Familiarize with all customer factory standards and act as the contact person for all factory standards compliance.
- Schedule and conduct all factory standards audit in line with customer expectations.
- Keep track of all customer audits, results of past audits and expectations.
- Update audit data on the technical manager database.
- Working with the pack house to ensure that the production process yield products that consistently satisfy stated customer quality attributes.
- Maintain an updated customer complaint trends and facilitate investigation of all customer
- Within the current HACCP.
AGRONOMY OFFICER - AAA GROWERS LTD COMPANY - Nyahururu
(2021-11 - 2024-11)
- Developing better planting, cultivation, and harvesting techniques, improving crop yield, and solving problems for clients.
- Researching and promoting agricultural strategies to counter the effects of changes in soil, climate, weather, and pest damage.
- Collecting seed, plant, and soil samples.
- Testing samples for nutritional deficiencies, diseases, or other changes.
- Assisting with the plant sourcing, testing, and selection.
- Keeping detailed records regarding fields, customers, crops, and samples.
- Generating reports and presenting findings to management, clients, or other interested parties.
- Conducting training on products and techniques through educational presentations
- Developing planting and irrigation schedules, budgets, and timelines To ensure that all pest and diseases control activities including IPM are done on time and effectively
- To keep diseases and pest records in the farm and to analyze the records in order to use them for pest and disease forecasting.
- To write a weekly crop protection report.
- Ensure the scouting system is well updated.
- Ensuring the instruments/phones used in scouting are well maintained.
- To ensure records of all pests and diseases levels and all control activities done are well maintained
- To ensure that the management is well advised on diseases and pest situation in the farm at all times
- to ensure that crop protection is of highest degree such that the crop is always clean and of high quality which meets the customer specification
- Oversee and deliver program requirements related to IPM
- Review and comply with internal procedures including Standard Operating Procedures and Best Practice Documents.
- Lead the IPM team.
- Collaborate with IPM and maintenance teams to verify equipment is properly calibrated and in working order.
- Ensure training activities on IPM are done.
- Plan, coordinate training to ensure technical competency on the operation of agriculture equipment involved in IPM
- Setting research, aims and objectives on new varieties, chemicals and fertilizer.
- Collecting, recording, analyzing and interpreting data
- Observing field conditions.
- Following strict test guidelines.
- Assessing the prevalence of diseases or pests.
- Communicating unfavorable results from tests, including trials failures
- Concluding on the trial in form of writing a report
SENIOUR AGRONOMIST CLERK - AAA GROWERS LIMITED COMPANY - Nyahururu
(2019-09 - 2021-11)
- To update agrochemical planning and confirmation.
- To update fertilizer planning and confirmation.
- To update seed planning and confirmation.
- To update chemicals, fertilizer and seed orders
- To update harvesting information.
- To update block chemical clearance for harvesting on a daily basis to assist the harvesting team on which blocks are clear for harvesting.
- Updating daily stocks on chemicals, seeds and fertilizers.
- Updating planting programme.
- Updating weather records on a daily basis and generate a report at the end of the month.
- Updating all irrigators and water use reports and present periods' reports as may be necessary.
- Keeping weekly crop on ground and taking pictures of the same.
- Keeping stock records for monthly sending reports of the same
SCOUT - KENYA HORTICULTURAL EXPORTERS
(2018-01 - 2019-09)
- Pest and disease identification
- Recording of pest or disease pressure by scoring
- Data analysis to help manager in decision making
- Report writing and presentation to the manager
- Participation in crop protection planning
- Follow-up in the field after sprays to ensure results are achieved
ATTACHEE
(2015-05 - 2015-09)
- Land preparation
- Planting
- Cultural activities which include, weeding, support, gapping, thinning
- Pest and disease identification
- Crop protection
- Harvesting and post-harvest procedures
