Business Development And Sales Associate

Lilly; Puente Viesgo; Presencial; EUR 40.000 - 80.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Sanitation Lead to enhance food safety across European plants. This role involves developing and implementing sanitation procedures, training plant staff, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. The ideal candidate will possess a Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Engineering, or Microbiology, along with 3-5 years of relevant experience in food manufacturing. You will work closely with engineering teams and chemical suppliers to optimize sanitation processes, ensuring the highest quality and safety standards are met. If you are passionate about food safety and ready to make a significant impact, this opportunity is for you!

Formación

• 3-5 years in Food Plant Manufacturing with sanitation technical knowledge.
• Bachelor’s in Food Science, Engineering, or Microbiology required.

Responsabilidades

• Lead sanitation compliance and training across European plants.
• Analyze sanitation audit data to improve food safety practices.

Conocimientos

Sanitation technical knowledge

Leadership skills

Written and oral communication skills

Proficient audit skills

Organizational skills

Microbiology knowledge

Process excellence tools

Educación

Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering

Bachelor’s Degree in Microbiology

Herramientas

EQMS database

CIP Neptune

Descripción del empleo

Job Category : Quality Job Family : Enterprise Quality and Food Safety

Job Description :

Lead the development, compliance, training, problem solving, best practices and general technical support in the area of Sanitation across all European Schreiber plants and Joint ventures outside Europe. Work with Operations, Plant Leaders, Engineering, Enterprise Quality and Food Safety, chemical suppliers, and contractors to ensure equipment, processes and the plant environment is suitably designed, maintained, and effectively cleaned for food safety. The position requires a good amount of field presence and knowledge / willingness to engage with materials in plants.

Role & Responsibilities :

• Support development and implementation of sanitation QSPs (quality system procedure) documents and assist in the development of plant SSOPs, CIP Neptune and sanitation audit documentation.
• Participate in individual Sanitation Programs and group Sanitation Essentials training to plant sanitarians and other partners.
• Work closely with Engineering and equipment vendors to ensure that new or modified equipment meets sanitary design and regulatory requirements prior to purchase and installation. For new equipment start-ups provide support with the Neptune validation process and SSOP definition.
• Review and analyze data from the Sanitation audit, pathogen environmental monitoring program, pre-op inspections, MSS site audits, food safety audits (internal, third party, customers, and Regulatory), customer complaints, and utilize that data to respond to trends and take corrective actions.
• Proactively utilize process Key Performance Indicators (KPI) pre-op (EQMS) and MSS metrics to prevent problems that could affect product quality and safety. Investigate sanitation issues, which are resulting in product contamination, reduced shelf-life, or customer complaints or rejection of products. Assist in the identification of root cause and corrective actions.
• Work closely with corporate account managers of sanitation chemical vendors to maximize technical expertise, provide full technical support and to drive optimization projects in terms of cost and time.
• Participate in internal sanitation audits separately or as a part of Food safety internal audit using EQMS database and work with appropriate partners to address and resolve deficiencies.
• Support implementation of PEM, construction plan, high care proposes and prioritize Capex projects and microbiology indicator product / pre-op PEM call lead, food safety and Zone 1 training support.

Minimum Requirements :

• Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science, Engineering, Microbiology or related field
• 3 to 5 years of experience in Food Plant Manufacturing (Maintenance, Production or Quality)
• Mid-level leadership skills – both direct and indirect, good written and oral communication skills
• Sanitation technical knowledge
• Cleaning / sanitizing chemicals associated with COP / CIP
• Sanitary design of food processing equipment
• Mid-level understanding in microbiology and food science
• Proficient audit skills
• Organized and proficient at prioritizing
• Experience using process excellence tools preferred.
• Availability to travel up to 50% (on annual basis)

We're looking for great people who bring to life a culture of caring, partnership and customer commitment. Are you one of them? Join us.

Schreiber Foods is an Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or national origin and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.