Process Specialist

IPM Foods•Janesville, WI

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The thermal process specialist focuses on ensuring that thermal processing operations are safe, compliant, efficient, and capable of producing high-quality products and also develops, validates, and optimizes thermal processing systems to ensure food safety, regulatory compliance, product quality, and manufacturing efficiency across commercial food production operations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology, or a related scientific field.
3–10+ years of experience in food manufacturing, food processing, quality assurance, process engineering, or thermal processing.
Experience with retort, aseptic, pasteurization, or sterilization systems.
Experience conducting process validations and scientific studies.
Knowledge of commercial food production environments and continuous improvement practices.
Knowledge of process validation and verification, HACCP and preventive controls, Food safety regulations and compliance requirements, Statistical analysis and data interpretation and packaging interactions with thermal processing

Responsibilities

Supervising retort processes rerpoting to SQM
Keep up with calibration for retort related equipment.
Review thermal process records
Escalate deviation and unusual occurrence and work on root cause analysis with SQM
Assisting with Temperature distribution study
Asisting with RD team with heat penetration
Schedule retort PM with maintenance department
Controling the retort cleaning process
Work on a cross-functional team to establish and implement a customized formal training program for retort operators
Assist in filing scheduled processes with the FDA in accordance with the Code of Federal Regulations
Help maintain the Thermal Processing Schedule for all company products
Conduct routine reviews of Processing Data and assist in handling and disposition of processing deviations