Upfield Looking for Quality and Food Safety Specialist – 6 Month Contract at Brantford, Ontario, Canada Full Time

Location: Brantford, Ontario

Onsite 5x/week

About the Role!

Act as Site Food lead and QA expert, to support the Brantford facility in improving performance and decreasing quality related issues, holds, etc. This includes day to day administration of HACCP, GMP, Microbiology, S4H, and other Quality systems to ensure compliance with internal and external regulations.

Main Responsibilities

• Lead the FS management system of the plant the way that it complies with FSMA, SFCR, FSSC 22000 guidelines. Lead certification of site in GMP / GFSI compliance by successfully completing external announced or unannounced audit on-site.
• Maintain the Upfield QMS & HACCP study up to date through annual reviews and cascading updates with Food safety related trainings, complying with internal and regulatory standards.
• Responsible for intensively evaluating select retail products off the lines to monitor quality of products. Work closely with all departments (maintenance, production, R&D, purchasing) to identify and rectify any quality defects in products.
• Provide support to the Upfield Brantford Plant in process quality related issues to improve upon Right First Time, Quality Rate and process deviations (D -incidents). This will directly be linked in improving efficiency/ quality failures.
• Work closely with operation to initiate Supplier Non Conformance Report (SNCR ) through S4H and then work with supplier directly on RCA and action closure so downtime in operations can be decreased.
• Co-ordinate with 3PWH to ensure product is dispositioned as per ways of working. Manage the Block & Release program ( QNF ) to avoid any potential marketplace incident through the testing of the system performing mock recalls or traceability exercises. Complete end-to end- non-conformant product management from holding product to final disposition, including Business Waste (BW) tracker.
• Should be conversant with management of change ( MOC ) process and able to implement it.
• Report and Investigate quality non-conformances ( CAPA ) tracker and always working with stakeholders for its closure and periodic review. Work with production and maintenance / engineering to implement required measure to warrant the consumer safety and quality of product. Assist Spreads & Cheese QA supervisors in investigating complaints through RCA and putting CAPA in place.
• Consumer Safety is maintained by equipment design, operational controls and systematic verification in-house and by external labs.
• Drive monthly Food Safety and Management review meeting with sharing current trends of KPIs and key areas to focus on in terms of quality heath check.
• S4H QM module lead to overview SAP and Quality related operations. Work with SC department to administrate information related to FS & Quality.

About you!

Minimum Requirements

• An educational degree in Food Science, Chemical Engineering, Microbiology or Chemistry.
• Minimum 3 years’ experience in a Manufacturing environment required; Food production environment an asset.
• Operational SAP-QM knowledge ideal.
• Knowledge/Certifications of QA Systems, Microbiology proficiency, HACCP, GMP, PCQI are assets. Previous experience supporting large-scale change activities a plus.

What’s Next

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