Spec Factory Quality- Nights

Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream • Fort Wayne, IN

2d • $62,500 - $68,290 • Onsite

About The Position

The Quality Specialist will be responsible for leading by example in compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (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, with specific assignments determined by the supervisor. The role also includes oversight of assigned systems to ensure compliance with sanitation, food safety, regulatory, and/or quality requirements, involving auditing, coaching, identifying and closing gaps, and reporting system integrity quarterly. Additionally, the specialist will verify key quality/food safety checks by observing line operators, participate on the food safety team as assigned, perform prerequisite program audits, and conduct CIP line inspections as needed, which include visual verification and micro/ATP swabs. The position requires representing The Froneri Way of working through behaviors and characteristics aligned with the Operating Model and Core Values.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.
• Complete checks on lines.
• Communicate out of specification results to line management and quality management.
• Inspection of lines after sanitation activities.
• Must consistently showcase the desired behaviors that represent our Core Values.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Ensure decisions are based on what’s best for the whole business.
• Practice inclusion by seeking diverse perspectives.
• Treat everyone with fairness and respect.

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Lead by example compliance to required GMP, quality and food safety requirements.
• Escalate quality or food safety findings or incidents to management.
• Support 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.
• Verify key quality/food safety checks by observation of line operators performing checks.
• 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.
• Represent The Froneri Way of working through the behaviors and characteristics in our Operating Model and Core Values.

Benefits

• Salary exempt
• Pay range is $62,500-$68,290 per year
• 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