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Coordinator
of Product Quality and Food Safety-1000812 - Freeport,
TX
Description
The Versene Chelants
group has an exciting and challenging opportunity for a Coordinator of
Product Quality and Food Safety located in Freeport, TX. The
purpose of this job is to coordinate, coach and actively promote the plant
quality systems required to achieve the business quality and customer
satisfaction goals. It also acts as the plant Subject Matter Expert (SME)
in our quality programs, processes and tools. It also enhances the front
line knowledge and accountability for quality throughout the organization.
The Versene
Chelants plant is part of the Specialty Chemicals business group and is
aligned to the highly successful Amines business. This facility is a
global scale Chelant manufacturing unit, the larger of 2 Chelant facilities
for Dow and operates a unique technology and chemistry. The plant
produces over 15 different Chelant products and is very closely aligned to
the business and marketing functions. Products from the Versene
Chelants plant are sold into the home and personal care, cleaning, food and
pharmaceuticals industries. The Freeport facility manufactures
one regulated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recipient product,
following cGMP/IPEC guidelines and holds a certification for food safety
for one other product.
As the Quality
Coordinator for this facility, this role is expected to work along side the
plant production engineers, technical service, marketing and quality roles
to ensure quality systems are maintained and customer issues are addressed
in a timely manner.
Qualifications
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Minimum of a Bachelors
of Science degree is Required. (Engineering, Chemistry,
Analytical or related field is preferred)
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Green Belt Project Leader or Black Belt certification
would be an asset.
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A minimum requirement for this U.S. - based position
is the ability to work legally in the United States on a permanent basis
(U.S. citizen, U.S. Permanent Resident or qualifying Asylee / Refugee).
GOALS/COMPETENCIES:
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Work with business and manufacturing personnel to
introduce new products and develop validation plans for process changes on
existing products
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Ensure implementation and on-going improvement of
business quality metrics (i.e., capability ratio) for all products
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Reduce the number of Order Non-Compliances and
Quality Messages (QM's) from our customer. Ensure timely resolution of all
QM's.
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Lead Root Cause Investigations to identify root
causes of quality issues and drive completion of corrective actions.
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Ensure that disposition of off-spec product has
negligible impact on our customers and meets all quality system
requirements.
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Ensure cGMP certification is maintained, along with
passing HACCP (Hazard Analysis-Critical Control Points) reviews.
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Lead semi-annual customer audits and with no major
non-conformances, and coordinate audit responses to findings.
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Lead plant analytical team for Versene chelants to
improve lab performance and service level to plant and site logistics
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Work with plant personnel to maintain compliance on
cGMP requirements and food safety requirements as described in the plant
quality systems.
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Coordinate internal and external sample requests for
miscellaneous analytical support.
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Achieve ISO certification for facility in 2010/2011
Key competencies
for this job are:
Initiative - The
Quality Coordinator must be able to detect problems/opportunities before
they happen and take action to prevent them from happening - based on
troubleshooting skills, experience, historical data, common sense, and good
engineering skills/knowledge.
Interpersonal
Effectiveness - The Quality Coordinator must interface often with a variety
of personnel, including management, operators, customers, service
personnel, auditors, etc. They must have good presentation and
communications skills to deliver messages efficiently and effectively.
Market Focus -
The quality coordinator is the role with the highest degree of market focus
for the plant. Customer issues, namely reliable supply of product and
product quality, will come to the Quality Coordinator for resolution.
Understanding the impact of these on our customers is important to our
continued growth in the market.
Value Creation -
The Quality Coordinator must always look at the value of activities, tasks,
and operations in the plant, and how they affect other functions as well.
Low value work must be eliminated or altered, with the focus of activities
centered on the ones that generate the most money for Dow Chemical overall.
Leadership - The
Quality Coordinator is looked to for leadership from both plant personnel
and business personnel to troubleshoot customer and plant
problems. They often lead meetings, investigations, etc., and
must set an example by their actions for others in the organization to
mirror.
Innovation -
Creative thinking by the Quality Coordinator on how we can improve the
plant operation and the work processes we use will help us drive costs down
while continuing to improve the quality of our products and customer
satisfaction.
Teamwork - The
Quality Coordinator is one member of the operations team. All team members
play an important role, and working together towards common goals allow us
to operate efficiently and be successful.
Primary Location
North
America-USA-Texas-Freeport
Schedule
Full-time
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