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Location: Baddi, Himachal Pradesh, India
Category: R&D
Job ID: R123607
Job Description:
Role: Quality & Food Safety Value Stream Lead
Location: Baddi
Business Unit: Mars Wrigley
Job Purpose:
There is an exciting opportunity to join the site R&D team in Baddi within the Quality & Food Safety function as the Q&FS Specialist. The purpose of this role is to maintain, design and improve the site Food Safety & Quality Management System to comply with the Mars Global Quality Standards.
What are we looking for?
- Food Science, Food Engineering, Chemistry or equivalent BSc/MSc degree is preferred
- 8-10 years Experience in a Food Manufacturing environment working in Quality, Food Safety or Product/Process development.
- Knowledge of Quality Assurance & Hygiene programs such as HACCP/ISO 22000
- Experience with incident management and standards implementation and completing internal and external audits
What will be your key responsibilities?
- Assisting to develop and implement technical and procedural control measures in relation to the Mars Global Quality Standards.
- Be the Onsite support for any Product Related Incidents as PRIMP coordinator.
- Developing and updating all paperwork/systems to be complaint to global standards.
- Support Operations with Incident Management, Troubleshooting and conduct Food Safety risk assessments as part of Hold and Release.
- Assisting the Q&FS team during new product launches and significant process and recipe changes whilst performing conformance checks. Partner with Innovation team to enable & deliver the asset out projects under DS1 program
- Drive continuous improvement and execute quality projects in close collaboration with other teams.
- Drive food safety management system for the site .Food safety Team leader for site.
- Assist QA manager & ensure activities related to plant Regulatory compliances (FSSAI, Legal Metrology etc).
- Track & improve on Product Quality Management (Spec management, KQA management).
- Complaint management. Drive trend analysis review & action plan for Complaint management.
- Govern concession management for the primes & product. Manage Hold & Release process.
- Ensure all inputs to Technical Risk Assessment of new initiatives.(VL/SRA/NPD/LE)
- Ensure Food Safety management system & HACCP compliance. Periodic verification of all CCP, OPRP, PRP performance.
- Identify skill gap & training needs at different levels and input to E & T team.
- Represent quality in Daily FMOS meetings & ensure action plan closures.
- Lead, organize and prepare Quality reviews for periodic performance.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
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