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Quality
Conformance Coordinator - Yorkville, IL 60560
MARS
Job details
Job Type
Full-time
Benefits
Pulled from the full job
description
Health insurance
Full Job Description
This role is responsible to conduct quality verification
protocols to ensure that all finished products meet with Mars Quality and
Food Safety Specifications. Primarily focusing on Food Safety and Legal
conformance, these Quality Conformance associates enable conformance to
specification through the verification of execution in quality control
protocols and/or monitoring of sampling and testing plans applied to
packaging and product. This resource also enables the reduction of food
safety incidents and non-quality costs by the immediate escalation of any out
of conformance condition detected during verification activities.
Minimum Qualifications
High School Diploma or equivalent required. Internship in
quality and food safety in a manufacturing environment
- Experience within a manufacturing
environment and/or previous quality control experience in a food-related
industry.
- Excellent written and oral communications
skills are essential as these associates often serve as a coordinator of
information between functions and across levels of the business.
- Able to lift up to 50 pounds
repetitively.
- Must be able to work at elevated heights.
- Must be able to adapt to temperature and
environmental extremes from hot to cold.
- Computer/Technical Savvy.
- Works proficiently in: Excel, Nexus, SAP,
Win SPC, Microsoft Office, Outlook, etc.
- Ability to establish good peer
relationships.
- 2-3 years of work experience in a food
manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated leadership capabilities in
leading/influencing others.
Preferred Qualifications
- 3-5 years of experience in a
manufacturing site managing quality and food safety management systems
responsible position related to food safety or quality and food safety
management system.
- BS degree in Food Science, Food Safety, Engineering,
Chemistry.
- Experience with practical applied
microbiology in factory environments.
- Ability to motivate and engage superiors,
peers, indirect associates.
- Advanced understanding of Good
Manufacturing Practices (GMP's), Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point
Systems (HACCP)
- Knowledge of food microbiology, food
safety, manufacturing processes and food laws.
KEY FUNCTIONAL COMPETENCIES AND TECHNICAL SKILLS
- Food safety risk, identification and
management, HACCP and prerequisite controls.
- Knowledge of GMP, food allergens, pest
control, sanitation, and food safety regulations.
- Strong people and organizational
development skills.
- Excellent oral and written communication
skills.
- Forward thinking, self-directed, capable
of making independent actions.
- Proven negotiation and problem-solving
skills with all levels of staff including senior management.
What can you expect from Mars?
- Responsible for shift-based quality
verification or monitoring activities for packaging raw materials and
finished product
- Initiate PRIMPS and Nonconformance’s in
Nexus.
Back-up to site Sample Processors, responsibilities include: collect raw
and/or finished goods samples to support a variety of activities such as
(but not limited to) the Daily Connection Point Quality Review meeting,
micro verification program, product library and hold dispositioning.
- Escalate to process areas any out of
conformance incidents and collaborate in trouble shooting providing all
information needed on product quality attributes until process and
product are back in control.
- Identify and isolate out-of-specification
materials, including placing product on hold, initiating
non-conformances and escalating to the correct associates. They are
expected to collaborate closely with Material Handling area to ensure all
non-conforming products are captured in house.
- Verifies calibration program activities
to ensure overall QMP compliance.
- Verifies that procedures to complete
quality related documentation are properly executed and information in
the records is complete.
- Quality conformance associates are
required to be part of the HACCP team and Internal Auditors group to
support quality and food safety continuous improvement program and
CAPA’s execution.
- Support operations with locating metal in
confirmed rejects and trending the number of rejects across the shift to
ensure proper escalation.
- Ensures that only nexus approved
documents are used in the packaging line for quality related activities
and archives quality related records for further analysis or auditing
purposes.
- Support site GMP compliance by performing
GMP and Glass and Brittle Audits.
- Support site run-mode validation studies.
- Provides coaching and training to
associates to ensure proper QMP understanding, execution of quality
control protocols, data accuracy and proper record management control.
- Work with over 130,000 like-minded 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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