Quality Specialist

Mondelēz International; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading company in the food manufacturing industry as a Quality Specialist, where you will play a crucial role in ensuring product quality and compliance with safety standards. You will operate equipment, engage in quality protocols, and collaborate with teams to drive improvements. Ideal candidates have a strong background in food science or related fields along with relevant experience. Embrace the opportunity to contribute to a beloved brand and grow your career in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a laboratory, quality, or manufacturing.
• Strong understanding of plant Quality Programs, including HACCP and GMPs.
• Flexibility to adapt to a dynamic and fast-paced work environment.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for daily oversight of food safety and quality activities.
• Implement Lean Six Sigma tools to improve product quality.
• Facilitate quality discussions and manage training activities.

Skills

Machine operations

Safety and quality standards

Team collaboration

Attention to detail

Effective communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Biology, Chemistry or equivalent

2-5 years’ experience in a related field

Tools

SAP

Quality software systems

MS Office

Job description

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Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You independently operate and maintain at leas one process or equipment or systems following autonomous maintenance (AM) standards and use your technical skills to improve line and/or system performance to meet business needs.

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You independently operate and maintain at leas one process or equipment or systems following autonomous maintenance (AM) standards and use your technical skills to improve line and/or system performance to meet business needs.

How You Will Contribute

You are a key ingredient in changing how the world snacks. You will operate and maintains equipment to meet our safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets. You will execute all standard work processes using AM and PM (progressive maintenance standards). In this role, you will ensure that safety processes are observed, and that quality assurance activities are performed. You will take an active role in shutdown maintenance, root-cause analysis, stops reductions loss analysis and breakdown elimination.

What You Will Bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

• Machine operations, TPM-Total Productive Maintenance Tools
• Safety and quality standards for operating machinery
• Reading and writing and fluently conversant in the language of communication as appropriate to the site
• Collaborating well in a diverse work environment
• Understanding of total productive maintenance tools and methodologies a distinct advantage
  
  
  

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

You lead the plan-do-check-act (PDCA) process of the site quality management system and report results to the Process Quality Lead.

How You Will Contribute

You will support elements of the site’s quality system, including internal documentation and change management control including quality policies amendments and registration of internal and external documentation, internal audits, effective PDCA cycles and CAPA system management and management review.

What You Will Bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Relevant experience in a laboratory, Quality or manufacturing.
• Working efficiently on a team
• Flexibility and adaptability to meet customer/business requirements.
• Attending to detail and following written instructions
• Communicating effectively, verbally and in writing
• MS office applications
  
  
  

More About This Role

The position will be responsible for administering quality protocols and processes on their assigned shifts. This role will support the daily operations team ensuring conformance to corporate and local Quality Policies and SOPs and proactively address risks.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for daily oversight of all food safety and quality activities of the production areas including HACCP, GMP, Specification Compliance, SOP Compliance, etc
• Work closely with the Senior Quality Specialist, compliance coordinator and production colleagues to implement Lean Six Sigma tools to continuously improve Product Quality, drive down defects, complaints and improve scrap waste.
• Maintain, review and file Quality and Food Safety paperwork on daily basis in accordance with company guidelines.
• Support the Senior Quality Specialist in Investigating consumer complaints and trends.
• Facilitate quality discussions and responsible for training activities in conjunction with the Compliance coordinator.
• Manage hold/release and non-conformance procedure for finished product or raw/pack materials.
• Manage Quality incidents from the investigation, remediation and follow up with the closure of corrective and preventive actions.
• Participate in project teams for new equipment and infrastructure, working with Safety, Quality, and other departments.
• Actively contribute to the implementation of IL6S tools and systems in correction of issues using Root Cause Analysis tools to eliminate losses.
• Prepare for and participate in internal and external quality audits in conjunction with the Process Quality Lead and Compliance Manager.
  
  
  

Job specific requirements:

• SAP user skills an asset, Quality software systems, & MS office.
• Strong understanding of plant Quality Programs, including HACCP, GMPs, Metal Detection, Calibration, CoA's, Specifications, documentation control.
• Experience in GFSI Standards (FSSC, etc).
• Adaptable - must handle multiple situations at one time and be able to prioritize for maximum efficiency.
• Communicates effectively with all positions orally and written in a professional manner
• Must be able to effectively analyze issues / problems and develop solutions.
• Demonstrates initiative & perform duties without direct supervision.
• Highly skilled at planning and prioritizing tasks
• Ability to successfully collaborate across different teams and stakeholders.
• Flexibility to adapt to a dynamic and fast paced high performance work system.
• Exhibit learning agility and display potential to grow in the organization by taking up diverse and challenging assignments.
• 2-5 years’ experience in a related field
• Bachelor’s degree Food science, Biology, Chemistry or equivalent years of related experience in a GMP manufacturing.
  
  
  

Work schedule:

• Shift rotations (Continental shifts)
  
  
  

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthday Cake and Peppermint Bark cookies. Our community of more than 2,683 employees is present across Canada and our head office is in Toronto. Passion and dedication characterize our Company. We encourage all our employees to be themselves at work, to speak out and to encourage diversity in all areas of activity. In addition, we foster a flexible work environment and place great importance on the notions of trust and empathy to promote a true sense of belonging.

Mondelez welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available on request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the selection process. Please note that the term "accommodation" in this posting means changes that are made in order to meet the needs of a person with disabilities and not lodging.

Job Type

Temporary (Fixed Term)

Manufacturing core

Manufacturing

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Quality Assurance

• Industries

  Food and Beverage Manufacturing, Food and Beverage Services, and Manufacturing

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