Sr. Q&FS Area Specialist

  What you’ll do   The Quality Systems Sr Specialist provides functional leadership to develop, implement, maintain and improve Quality and Food Safety Management programs for the site and across the network to ensure that end products are safe for human consumption and meet customer, consumer and regulatory requirements to achieve business objectives. The Quality Systems Sr Specialist provides leadership to improve Q&FS Management System  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 creat...