Yvonne Makena Kaburu

• Leading quality assurance team to enhance product compliance with industry standards.
• Developed and implemented quality control procedures to minimize defects in production processes.
• Conducting training to the QA team on the requirements, policies and procedures on ERP system (Sage, Syspro and WMS) and ISO system, Quality and production while also addressing their training needs.
• Taking lead in external audits, compliance audits, supplier audits and actively giving direction to the internal auditors
• Driving Root cause analysis initiatives on product nonconformance for corrective and preventive actions.
• Conducting customer visits in order to understand any challenges, upcoming developments and any changes affecting us.
• Served as a key liaison between Quality Assurance and other departments, facilitating collaborative efforts that led to increased product consistency and customer satisfaction.
• Analysis,testing and reporting of any new products, generating bill of materials for the same, while maintaining a database of the existing products.
• A member of cost reduction committee, assigned to the role of process study and Quality assurance.

• Assisting in coordinating training of the quality team on quality and safety procedures in accordance with ISO 9001:2015 and FSSC 22000.
• Acts as a link between the sales and marketing team and the quality departments, by ensuring that we work towards the same goal of customer satisfaction.
• Ensuring that all machine and equipment’s have been serviced and calibrated as per the schedule.
• Ensuring that all statutory permits have been obtained and renewal done as required.
• Acting as a Kaizen Champion in the role of training and auditing on the same.
• Inspection of the incoming raw materials,reporting and approving on the same,while still maintaining a data base of the same.
• Maintaining a database of individual product parameters, approved deviations and variances for both raw and finished products.
• Planning and generating of Quality assurance schedule and ensure its effectiveness to a certain full compliance against the set operating procedures.
• Conduct periodic quality checks during production to ensure compliance of set standards, and customer requirements.
• Identifying variations in quality, taking up corrective measures and communication to the Quality manager.
• Developing SOPS and checklists for any new processes and making amendments where necessary, in the entire quality assurance process.

• Supervised daily production operations to ensure adherence to safety and quality standards.
• Ensuring machine efficiency by ensuring that planned machine and utility maintenance are carried out as per the schedule.
• Planning and organizing production training schedules on autonomous maintenance, OEE and basics of lean manufacturing.
• Constant coordination with the warehouse, sales and production planner on stock levels, customer requirements and sales projections in order to ensure that all customer requirements are met.
• Assisting the production planner on monthly manpower allocation, budgeting and monitoring of the same to ensure proper utilization and efficiency.
• Member of the OHS committee and ensuring all regulations are met, all incidents and near misses reported, investigated, and a report generated.
• Coordinating with the technical team and the production supervisors and ensuring that any breakdowns were effectively communicated and attended to with the required urgency to ensure machine efficiency.
• Chairing daily production meetings and discussing on the previous day OEE, challenges and ways of mitigating them, and the day’s priority machines, products and set targets and ways to
• Constant coordination with the quality, technical and production teams in ensuring that product quality is maintained.
• Assisting the HR team in carrying out performance reviews for the production team and submitting a report on the same for salary reviews.
• Assisting the Human resource team in setting KPIs pertaining the production team and communicating the same to the production team through the production supervisors.
• Assisting the production supervisors in ensuring that the 5s principals are constantly in place.
• Constant coordination with the quality, technical and production teams in ensuring that product quality is maintained.

• Assisting the Quality Manager in coming up with departmental budgets for every quarter before forwarding to the departmental heads in operations.
• Supporting the team and ensuring that they are provided with the necessary PPEs.
• Supporting the human resource team on Quality team time management by collecting data and making a report at the end of month.
• Planning, scheduling and coordinating all trainings both internal and external that pertains operations.
• Supporting the supervisors during the OHSE meetings by collecting data for any accidents or near miss, analyzing the data and making a report every quarter for presentation to the management.
• Assisting the team in developing, communicating and training on the KPIs in alignment
• with the departmental objectives which also align to the organization objectives.
• Assisting in planning and facilitating all meetings involving the Quality team
• Sample reception, recording, storage and dispatching them for analysis.
• Planning, scheduling and facilitating the quarterly performance reviews for the Quality team.
• Team member in the problem-solving committee where I support in documentation of
• challenges and suggestions for improvement.

A team member of the 17025 testing systems, where I am the secretary.

• Ensured compliance with quality standards through meticulous inspections and testing of products.
• Organizing periodic calibration, verification and monitoring measuring equipment.
• Compile and submit daily and weekly quality reports, compile the QC process measure and present monthly reports in power point format.
• Verification and maintaining quality standards for finished goods and incoming raw materials &liaising with suppliers to discuss on improvements of the raw materials.
• Ensure standard operating procedures (SOP) are followed by monitoring the process control measures being carried out especially by new staff or students on internship.
• Preparation and standardization of reagents
• Broad spectrum analysis of suspension and tablets analysis .
• General cleanliness of the apparatus and the laboratory ware.
• Computation and interpretation of the results.
• Training and induction of the new staff on GMP and GLP.