Description

Job Purpose and Impact

The Executive - Food Safety and Quality , will ensure products meet or exceed customer requirements for quality and food safety. In this role, you will apply basic understanding of plant processes to monitor quality assurance systems including instrumentation calibration, maintenance, crosschecks, methods, procedures, raw materials, food safety and training. You will provide technical advice and support to production operations to ensure product quality, minimize process variation, process recoveries, waste reduction and cost minimization and improve customer satisfaction.

Key Accountabilities

• Assure product meets compliance specifications and overall final product approval checks.
• Data analysis, trend identification, troubleshooting, corrective action and communication with regard to processing data.
• Assess process quality parameters and food safety and quality systems daily, including cross checks, raw materials, calibration, maintenance, procedures, food safety, training, auditing and oversight of analytical testing performed in control rooms.
• Training of new food safety and quality chemists, analysts, operators, technicians and personnel from other functional areas.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, while escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

Graduation in a related field (Chemistry, Biotech, Agriculture, Food science Etc.) or equivalent experience

Preferred Qualifications

"Able to work independently, possess positive working attitude with high initiative level, and communicate effectively"
Necessary English reading capacity
Experience with proximate chemical analysis (preferable)- Food products
Minimum of 3 years of working experience in the Food industry Lab or Food commercial Lab.