Quality & Food Safety Specialist (12 Month Contract)

2 weeks ago

Brantford, Canada Upfield Full time

**Quality & Food Safety Specialist**

**Role Type**: Fixed Contract on Upfield payroll

**Schedule**: Monday - Friday on-site at 10 Craig St, Brantford

**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 v5 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.
- Review Salesforce dashboard (Careline data ) of customer complaints and trending to identify top Losses from consumer point of view and initiate corrective actions for the same.
- Co-ordinate with 3PWH to ensure product is dispositioned as per ways of working. Manage the Block & Release program 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.
- Report and Investigate quality non-conformances. 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.
- S4H QM module lead to overview SAP and Quality related operations. Work with SC department to administrate information related to FS & Quality.

**About you**
- An educational degree is required
- 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**
- Upfield is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias._
- No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Upfield. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics._

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