Job Objective
Laboratory and Food safety Guidelines for All products families
- Responsible to establish long-term goals, strategies, plans and policies in terms of Metrics and Food safety Systems and comply with govenment and client regulations (requirements).
- Responsible to assist in establishing and maintaining a high level of quality compliance in all business units by benchmark and implementation of best practices throughout the
- Responsible for ensuring that all business units have a compliance approach with the same philosophy and conditions (one quality and food safety system).
**Main responsabilities**:
- Generate, implement and maintain procedures and food safety systems to meet global regulatory requirements that may apply.
- Design and implement standardized procedures for measuring the quality characteristics of the products
- Establish statistical tools and optimal sampling plans in MP, work in progress and finished products.
- Establish statistical tools and optimal sampling plans in Supply chain for evaluation of compliance with critical control points in market
- Design and evaluate standardized ponts for measuring the quality characteristics in process using MES systems or equivalent tools in the value chain.
- Defines calibration, frequency and assurance standards (R + R) in the measurement laboratory equipment and in supply chain processes.
- Maintains consistent methods for the collection and analysis of statistical data, in order to predict important trends for the product quality along the value chain.
- Ensures that there is support to operations and continuous improvement teams for problem identification, resolution, and continuous improvement.
- Be a resource for quality equipment at each of our plants and technology teams to provide advice and training, as needed.
- Serve as a technical expert in the field on issues related to incidents of food safety and its possible implications for brands.
- Analyzes new regulations and proposed plans to ensure compliance with them creating new metrics, reporting and tracking trends as well as the necessary training elements.
- Actively participate in any product recall situation and monitor the withdrawal from the corporate level
knowledge
- Bachelor's degree (Master degree preferably) in Microbiology, Food Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology or related field.
- Preferably 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance/Food Chemistry and/or microbiology Analysis.
- Knowledge in international methods for quality and safety of food.
- Knowledge of ISO7025 certification and or Laboratory management knowledge (preferred).
- Working knowledge in international metrics and food quality regulatory standards (preferred).
- Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagrammatic or other form.
- Ability for statistics data analyisis and data visualization.
- Intermediate or advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel software programs.
- Advanced English, fluent speaking with written and reading ability.
- Ability to work independently under limited supervision and at fast pace environments.
- Ability to empower, motivate, inspire team, lead change and execute strategic decisions.
- Demonstrate problem solving skills.
- Open to travel when required (up to 40%).