Spec Factory Quality- Nights

External • Fort Wayne, IN

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Specialist will lead by example in complying with required GMP, quality, and food safety requirements. This role involves escalating quality or food safety findings or incidents to management, supporting improvement initiatives, and assisting, coaching, and training line operators in attaining quality standards. The Quality Specialist will be assigned to assist the Quality Supervisor with oversight in hygiene, operational quality, or food safety/compliance. Specific assignments will be given by the Quality Supervisor and will relate to the supervisor’s area of oversight. This includes oversight of assigned systems to ensure compliance with sanitation, food safety, regulatory, and/or quality requirements. Oversight involves auditing, coaching, identifying and closing gaps, and reporting system integrity to the supervisor quarterly. The role also includes verifying key quality/food safety checks by observing line operators, participating in the food safety team, performing prerequisite program audits, and conducting CIP line inspections, which may include visual verification, micro swabs, and ATP swabs. The Quality Specialist is expected to represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in the Operating Model and Core Values.

Requirements

• Must consistently showcase the desired behaviors that represent our Core Values.
• We Take Ownership: Stay committed to responsibilities from start to finish, Make sound decisions and get into the right level of detail, Apply resources to initiatives that add growth, improve efficiencies, or reduce waste.
• We Do What Is Right: Choose transparency over convenience, even if it means difficult conversations, Set clear roles and responsibilities, enabling everyone to exercise appropriate initiative and judgment, Speak up when you see something that does not align to our values and policies.
• We Seek to Improve: Strive to continuously improve and innovate to exceed expectations, Value feedback from others and encourage open dialogue to understand how we can improve, Learn from both successes and failures.
• We Are Better Together: Ensure decisions are based on what’s best for the whole business, Practice inclusion by seeking diverse perspectives, Treat everyone with fairness and respect.
• Systems that can be assigned to Quality Specialist include: Allergen management program, Finished Products: release, hold and rework/reprocessing documentation review, Raw Material: release and hold, Sensory program, Customer complaints, Production run line extensions, Environmental Monitoring Program, Foreign Objects Glass/Brittle program, Micro correlation studies, Document control for quality, food safety and/or micro records.
• Measurable Outcomes: CPMU reduction, Respect of GMP and distribution of the “lesson learnt“, Reduction of pallets on holds, Reduction of food safety incidents.
• Being on the shop floor making ice-cream.

Nice To Haves

• Oversight includes auditing, coaching, identifying and closing gaps and reporting system integrity to supervisor quarterly.
• Verification will be performed on all shifts, documented and done at frequency specified to the system requirements.
• Participate on food safety team as assigned.
• Perform pre-requisite program audits as assigned, follow up on CA and complete documentation.
• Perform CIP line inspections as needed.
• CIP line inspections include visual verification, micro swabs and ATP swabs.

Responsibilities

• Lead by example compliance to required GMP, quality and food safety requirements.
• Escalate quality or food safety findings or incidents to management.
• Supports improvement initiatives.
• Assist, coach and train line operators in attaining quality standards.
• Assist quality supervisor with oversight in hygiene, operational quality or food safety/compliance.
• Oversight of assigned systems to ensure they are in compliance with sanitation, food safety, regulatory and/or quality requirements.
• Oversight includes auditing, coaching, identifying and closing gaps and reporting system integrity to supervisor quarterly.
• Verify key quality/food safety checks by observation of line operators performing checks.
• Verification will be performed on all shifts, documented and done at frequency specified to the system requirements.
• Participate on food safety team as assigned.
• Perform pre-requisite program audits as assigned, follow up on CA and complete documentation.
• Perform CIP line inspections as needed.
• CIP line inspections include visual verification, micro swabs and ATP swabs.
• Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values.
• Complete checks on lines.
• Communicate out of specification results to line management and quality management.
• Inspection of lines after sanitation activities.

Benefits

• Salary exempt
• The pay range is $62,500-$68,290 per year.
• Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream Inc. provides equal employment opportunities for all applicants, regardless of race, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed