Quality Specialist

Givaudan•Florence, KY

22d•$75,000 - $85,000•Onsite

About The Position

Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 17,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with. In the USA, we develop, market and produce a wide array of solutions from our 25 most innovative sites, based across the country. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature. Job purpose You will maintain the local Quality and Food Safety programs aligned with global policies, regulatory and customer requirements. You will participate in local Vendor and Customer Quality Programs aligned with global policies. You will manage Customer Complaints and improve/compliance of Customer requirements. You will be a member of the Site Local Quality team, with no direct reports. Your main stakeholders will be: Operations, Global/Regional Quality, Purchasing, Supply Chain, Production, and Regulatory.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Chemistry, Microbiology, Food Service or related field with 1+ years of experience in Quality Assurance/ Management/Control.
Background in Quality and Food Safety Systems such as ISO 9001, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, FDA requirements (PCQI), Food Defense.
Lead/internal auditor experience.
Experience in compliance with kosher, halal, USDA, and organic requirements.

Nice To Haves

HACCP and PCQI certifications
computer knowledge with such systems as SAP, Databases, and Microsoft Office products.
Excel knowledge, including data analysis, formula creation, pivot tables and charts.

Responsibilities

Manage local Quality and Food Safety programs aligned with global policy
Help maintain the local quality/food safety documentation
Maintain the local quality, food safety and food defense programs along with the compliance responsibilities for programs such as halal, kosher, USDA, and organic.
Perform Internal audits and monthly food safety inspections
Lead the execution of internal and customer-focused quality and food safety system requirements
Provide mentoring on quality and food safety to all staff
Manage food safety non-conformances, including participation and review of the root causes, trend analysis and action follow-up
Implement Quality and Food Safety Programs aligned with global policies
Help implement globally agreed quality and food safety system requirements from customers
Help implement globally new or updated global/regional quality and food safety system policies
Manage/support customer audits and resulting improvement plans
Manage/support regulatory audits and resulting improvement plans
Manage/support certification/program audits and resulting improvement plans
Perform and report on vendor audits
Participate in projects for quality and food safety improvements at the site
Guide quality notifications compliance (ie: closing, cost data, adherence to Givaudan policies).
Implement globally /regionally agreed quality requirements from customers
Manage Customer Complaints, provide response and escalate
Drive/Coordinate initiatives to improve customer complaints performance