Quality & Food Safety Specialist

Givaudan Sense Colour•Port Washington, WI

7d•Onsite

About The Position

The Quality & Food Safety Specialist will fully support and proactively participate in safety programs, demonstrating safety leadership through their own behaviors and promoting accountability within the QC Laboratory. This role ensures laboratory operations are conducted safely, meeting all company health, safety, and environmental requirements. The specialist is responsible for ensuring technicians are adequately trained, laboratory equipment is calibrated and maintained, and shelf life studies are conducted as appropriate. They will also create/update laboratory SOPs, manage lab supplies and inventory, and process purchase orders. Key duties include generating and completing Shelf Life Extension Authorization Forms and Product Information Update Forms, ensuring raw material testing is completed per requirements, and troubleshooting formula/production errors with the production team when product parameters do not meet specifications. This role serves as the primary backup for other Laboratory Technicians in their absence and assists with investigations and implementing corrective actions from complaints, audits, and internal preventative actions to promote continuous improvement. The specialist participates as a member of the HACCP Team, serves as an internal auditor for GMP auditing and BRC certification upkeep, and supports the Quality Manager in customer and regulatory audits. They actively participate in Continuous Improvement Teams and coordinate with external laboratories as needed, while also maintaining and undertaking the environmental swabbing program. Other duties as assigned are also part of this role.

Requirements

Deals with others in a straightforward and honest manner, is accountable for actions, maintains confidentiality, supports company values, conveys good news and bad.
Promotes mutual respect, keeps workplace clean and safe, supports safety programs.
Is attentive to detail and accuracy, is committed to excellence, looks for improvements continuously, monitors quality levels, finds root cause of quality problems, owns/acts on quality problems.
Supports values and daily actions and decisions, communicates vision and values to others, generates enthusiasm, incorporates vision when planning.
Recognizes problems and responds, systematically gathers information, sorts through complex issues, seeks input from others, addresses root cause of issues, makes timely decisions, can make difficult decisions, uses consensus when possible, communicates decisions to others.
Tackles problems and takes independent action, seeks out new responsibilities, acts on opportunities, generates new ideas, practices self-development.
Breaks down problems into smaller components, understands underlying issues, can simplify and process complex issues, understands the difference between critical details and unimportant facts.
Targets and achieves results, sets challenging goals, prioritizes tasks, overcomes obstacles, accepts accountability, sets team standards and responsibilities, provides leadership/motivation.

Responsibilities

Fully support and proactively participate in safety programs and demonstrate safety leadership by their own behaviors, promoting accountability within the QC Laboratory
Ensure laboratory operation are conducted safely, meeting all company health, safety, and environmental requirements
Ensure that technicians working within Quality Team are adequately trained in the duties they undertake
Ensure that all laboratory equipment is correctly calibrated and maintained according to requirements
Conduct shelf life studies where appropriate
Create and/or update laboratory SOPs as needed
Order all lab supplies and ensure inventory is kept at appropriate levels (to include generation and receiving of Purchase Orders)
Generate and complete Shelf Life Extension Authorization Forms and Product Information Update Forms
Ensure all raw materials requiring sampling and testing are completed per requirements
Ability to troubleshoot formula/production errors along side production when product parameters do not meet specification
Serve as the primary back up upon absence of the other Laboratory Technicians
Assist with investigations and implementing corrective actions from complaints, audits and internal preventative actions to promote continuous improvement
Participates as a member of HACCP Team
Serves as an internal auditor for GMP auditing and upkeep of BRC certification
Supports Quality Manager in all customer and regulatory audits
Actively participates in Continuous Improvement Teams
Coordinate contact with external laboratories as needed
Maintain and undertake the environmental swabbing program
Other duties as assigned