Career Opportunities: JEFE SISTEMAS INOCUIDAD (47625)

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 government and client regulations (requirements).
* Responsible to assist in establishing and maintaining a high level of quality compliance in all business units by benchmarking and implementation of best practices throughout.
* Responsible for ensuring that all business units have a compliance approach with the same philosophy and conditions (one quality and food safety system).

Main Responsibilities:

1. Generate, implement and maintain procedures and food safety systems to meet global regulatory requirements that may apply.
2. Design and implement standardized procedures for measuring the quality characteristics of the products.
3. Establish statistical tools and optimal sampling plans in MP, work in progress, and finished products.
4. Establish statistical tools and optimal sampling plans in the supply chain for evaluation of compliance with critical control points in the market.
5. Design and evaluate standardized points for measuring the quality characteristics in process using MES systems or equivalent tools in the value chain.
6. Define the selection of measurement equipment quality and food safety and its application to each stage of the process.
7. Define calibration, frequency, and assurance standards (R + R) in the measurement laboratory equipment and in supply chain processes.
8. Maintain consistent methods for the collection and analysis of statistical data, in order to predict important trends for the product quality along the value chain.
9. Ensure that there is support to operations and continuous improvement teams for problem identification, resolution, and continuous improvement.
10. Be a resource for quality equipment at each of our plants and technology teams to provide advice and training, as needed.
11. Serve as a technical expert in the field on issues related to incidents of food safety and its possible implications for brands.
12. Analyze new regulations and proposed plans to ensure compliance with them, creating new metrics, reporting, and tracking trends as well as the necessary training elements.
13. Actively participate in any product recall situation and monitor the withdrawal from the corporate level.

Knowledge:

1. Bachelor’s degree (Master's degree preferably) in Microbiology, Food Science, Chemistry, Biotechnology, or related field.
2. Preferably 3 years of experience in Quality Assurance/Food Chemistry and/or Microbiology Analysis.
3. Knowledge in international methods for quality and safety of food.
4. Knowledge of ISO7025 certification and/or laboratory management knowledge (preferred).
5. Working knowledge in international metrics and food quality regulatory standards (preferred).
6. Ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagrammatic, or other forms.
7. Ability for statistics data analysis and data visualization.
8. Intermediate or advanced knowledge of Microsoft Word, Excel software programs.
9. Advanced English, fluent speaking with written and reading ability.
10. Ability to work independently under limited supervision and in fast-paced environments.
11. Ability to empower, motivate, inspire team, lead change and execute strategic decisions.
12. Demonstrate problem-solving skills.
13. Open to travel when required (up to 40%).