Precious Tambudzai Tsikwa

• 100% inspection of finished jewelry products paying attention to details checking for the following:
• In production check, checking for the following:

Correct diameter (rings), thickness and length (necklaces and bracelets). Correct number of stones (diamonds and other precious stones). Correct stone size, setting and broken stone. Correct and neat engraving.

• Final inspection check, checking for the following:

Good soldering, color faults, flashing and burrs. Misaligned parts, broken clasps, inconsistency in appearance and any other deformations. Scratches, dents, and pinholes. Check any other details that match customers’ requirements.

• Make sure all non-conforming products are rectified to meet customers’ needs.

• Testing of incoming raw materials and final inspection on outgoing finished products, for quality, quantity, and accurate product description on the product description label.
• Specifying quality requirements of raw materials or intermediate products with suppliers and monitoring their compliance to ISO 13485: 2016, FDA CR 21 and ISO 9001:2015.
• Working with operating staff to establish quality standards, operating manuals, product specification sheets, technical data sheets and safety data sheets.
• Carry out investigations to establish correction, corrective and preventative actions on any non-conforming products and processes.
• Leading in internal quality audits and ensuring product and process compliance with quality standards.
• Validating processes and equipment.
• Supervising quality control inspectors and providing guidance.
• Keep accurate documentation and perform statistical analysis on quality.
• Calibrating of measuring tools and machinery.
• Carry out start up procedure.

• Monitoring quality assurance compliance of manufacturing of conveyor & transmission belts, rubber moldings & extrudates and mixing of rubber compounds.
• Research & Development projects.
• Ensuring product and SHEQ compliance through monitoring and management of SHEQ indicators (ISO 9001 & ISO 14001) of 100+ employees.
• Material development, laboratory processing, evaluation and comparison of raw materials and finished products.
• Calibration of rubber testing machinery and tools.
• Writing weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual reports for Technical & quality department.

• Supervising 20+ production employees to maximize productivity through the team leader.
• Utilizes lean, GMP and six sigma methods to streamline workflow and ensure cost effective production.
• Interpretation of production budget and development of production plans.
• Variance analysis of raw materials, labor, and production output.
• Quality control, laboratory testing compounds and scrap analysis.
• Supervise inventory monthly, quarterly, and annually and ensure accurate physical count on all inventories of all products from mixing department.
• Carry out investigations (root cause analysis) to establish solutions to non-conformances raised for mixing department (products, processes, and customer complaints).
• Participating in regular performance appraisal and assisting in the resolutions of any employee disputes and grievances.

• Assessing data to determine if there is some research and other information needed to conduct process growth, material improvement, test and development of experiments.
• Attending to customer requests and queries.
• Studying and preparing reports of processes, products, incoming raw materials, projects, and new & product development.
• Assistance in production trial and write down outcomes.
• Ensuring that all specifications used are latest and correctly adhered to.
• Carryout laboratory quality tests for compounds, finished products and adhesives.