Senior Quality Specialist

Nestle Operational Services Worldwide SA•Fremont, MI

About The Position

As a Senior Quality Specialist at Nestlé Nutrition & Health, your mission is to ensure quality by design through scientific and technical guidance that supports innovation and delivers products and processes right first time. You’ll make a difference by collaborating closely with cross-functional project teams, operations, and factory partners. This is your opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and make a difference at scale. You will also support our Nutrition & Health Meals & Drinks category global manufacturing network by creating and maintaining category specific specifications to assure Quality by Design.

Requirements

University graduate
Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, Biotechnology, or other related science degrees
Minimum of 5 years of experience in food industry in quality, R&D or manufacturing areas
Demonstrated Competence in their field to support business requirements:
Team member in the quality department of a factory, PTC/R&D, Centre, NR, NQACs
Ingredient specifications
Experience with quality by design
Leading part of a change effort
Participating in audit teams and/or improvement projects with more senior staff members
Establishing networks of peers, in markets or factories

Nice To Haves

HACCP certification is preferred
ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000 certification is preferred
Participation in new product development project teams is preferred

Responsibilities

Promotes quality and food safety awareness. Contributes to competence development of quality professionals across the category/business by providing training and awareness related to Nestle Standards, Nestle/NDC Quality processes and GMPs.
Project team member engaged in NDC Innovation / Renovation projects assuring Quality function deliverables throughout project stages.
Perform Food Safety Assessments and develops pHACCP and rMMS for new product/technology projects, including support to factories for implementation. Maintains and creates model HACCP, rMMS, and other category or Nestle standards and guidance instructions.
Ensures Quality and Food Safety technical knowledge transfer to operations through engagement, training and handover of projects. Provides training to all functions which need to have an insight into quality and food safety, and which need to implement quality and food safety in their own job deliverables.
Ensures full compliance to Nestlé Standards and Regulatory requirements.
Provides support for Nestle Development Center Pilot Plant Quality and site compliance.
Embraces and leverages digital solutions and platforms to enable speed and accuracy. Seeks to find or develop new digital solutions to enhance the output of the role to ensure we maintain a competitive advantage.
Promote compliance with the Nestle Management System requirements and other applicable Standards.
Member of the Internal Audit Team, responsible for auditing processes and areas according to the Internal Audit Plan.
Support visits from regulatory bodies, such as FDA or USDA, and external certification bodies. In addition, Supports factory trials or vendor qualification as required by project.
Provides assistance to Quality functions in factories and Application Groups