Quality Systems Coordinator

Lactalis Midwest Yogurt•Murfreesboro, TN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose. At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed. As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together. In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®. At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued. Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy. Murfreesboro is a high performing, multi-platform non-union facility with over 300 employees leading the safe, high-quality production of a wide range of dairy products. This site supports the Midwest Yogurt business across over 10 production lines. This Quality Systems Coordinator position will be responsible for supporting Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory work at this facility.

Requirements

1+ years of quality, food safety or related experience
Ability to influence constructive, positive changes within a plant environment
Clear, concise, well directed communication/ability to employ multiple communication styles to execute a given task
Ability to flex work schedule when required to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation. This includes occasional early/late work hours.
General understanding of product quality, sensory, sanitation and food safety
Ability to understand the tools of problem solving and decision making.
Demonstrated initiative and bias for action
Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity
Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel)

Nice To Haves

3+ years of quality, food safety or related experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Food Science

Responsibilities

Provide Food Safety & Quality support through execution of various programs and maintenance of records in areas of regulatory compliance, product quality, food safety, sanitation, ingredients, and defect handling
Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Sanitation and Engineering as necessary to coordinate non-conforming raw material and finished product dispositions
Using Quality Engineering principles, collect, analyze, and interpret in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations and recommend actions for raw material and product dispositions
Provide tactical support to the Food Safety and Quality organization in matters of system updating, documents management and record-keeping