Sr. Q&FS Area Specialist

Responsibilities

• Act as back up to the Quality and Food Safety Manager, provides leadership and technical expertise during incident investigation and risk analysis as well as provides recommendations for appropriate resolution
• Lead the implementation of Global Quality and Food Safety Standards to ensure compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety requirements
• Lead the site quality and food safety management review process to identify improvement opportunities for quality and food safety management systems
• Development and roll out of food safety training to the site and support functions (HACCP, Basic Food Safety)
• Provide governance to the Microbiological verification, environmental program, Mycotoxin, Allergens, Cleaning and Sanitation programs
• Provide governance to HACCP and Food Safety Plan within the site, provide input to the Value stream Food safety. Food Safety Team Leader at the site. Manage validation of CCP/OPRP preventive controls programs within the site
• Responsible for providing site input to the Material Risk Assessments (MRA's)
• Lead root cause analysis investigation of food safety incidents and effective implementation of corrective/preventive actions
• Lead Q&FS input for engineering related projects within the site and lead Commissioning, Validation and start up Handover process for Q&FS.
• Lead Q&FS continuous improvement projects for the site to improve the brand experience.
• Lead in combination with Q&FS Manager product related incident management process and provide recommendation on product disposition
• Lead Communities of practice to drive standardization, and creation of best practices
• Coach and develop associates in Q&FS team within the site or across the network.
• How you'll do it
• Lead gap assessment to the Mars Global standards and regulatory requirements, lead the Food Defense Plan and continuous improvement of quality systems and to ensure compliance
• Partners with supply Make and Engineering, R&D and other key stakeholders to implement changes, new process or new products in a safe manner and implement product quality conformance system
• Responsible for providing outlining Q&FS requirements on engineering projects, developing all the Q&FS documents, SOP's, delivering training for associates as required for the start of new lines or processes at the site and creating QFS best practices
• Lead continuous improvement of QFS system and product quality and conformance to specification through analysis of data and evaluation of trends through use of statistical analysis for a given brand for region
• Builds knowledge of the company, processes and customers. Understands key business drivers and uses this understanding to accomplish own work.
• Builds a network of cross functional partners to accomplish business objectives
• Provides guidance and direction to others
• You have

Requirements

• BS degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Food Safety, Engineering or related technical field
• 3 years of food manufacturing experience in a responsible position related to food safety or Quality and food safety management system and or a combination of education and 5+ years demonstrated success in relevant field
• Advanced degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Food Safety, Engineering or related technical field
• 2 years of food plant experience in a responsible position related to food safety or Quality and food safety management system
• Demonstrated leadership capabilities in leading a team
• What you'll bring to KIND
• Demonstrated success with Food safety risk, identification and management, HACCP and prerequisite controls
• Proven application of quality tools, food science, and statistics
• Demonstrated capability to manage multiple priorities
• Proven leadership within a team and demonstrated ability to lead change
• Exhibited understanding of GMP, GLP, food allergens, pest control, sanitation, and food safety regulations
• Expert knowledge of Food Safety Standards, procedures and legislation
• Ability to work effectively in cross functional teams
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. Strong presentation Skills
• Experienced auditor in GFSI Quality Systems such as SQF, BRC, FSSC22000 or ISO9000 preferable.
• Ability to travel 10% of the time
• Certain states and localities require employers to post a reasonable estimate of salary range. A reasonable estimate of the current base salary range for this position is $85,000 to

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