Lider de Control de Calidad

Nutreco; Netherlands; On-site; EUR 36,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutreco is seeking a dedicated Quality Control professional to oversee the inspection of incoming raw materials and ingredients, ensuring proper documentation and sample management for regulatory compliance.

The role extends to quality control throughout the production process, including finished goods sampling and storage, as well as supporting internal and external audits and driving continuous improvement across quality KPIs.

Qualifications

• Experience in quality control of raw materials and ingredients.
• Knowledge of HACCP, ISO and food safety standards.
• Attention to documentation and sample management.

Responsibilities

• Inspect and control incoming raw materials and ingredients to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Oversee quality control throughout the production process to meet standards and minimize costs.
• Perform finished goods sampling, storage, and documentation for analysis and traceability.
• Coordinate quality audits and implement corrective actions as needed.
• Promote quality programs across departments and support training on quality standards.

Job description

Quality control of incoming raw materials and ingredients:

• o Executes the control of all incoming raw materials and ingredients, by ensuring proper inspection (physical appraisal, labels check, sample check, documentation check and sample management), ensuring correct documentation, sample storage and management of samples for analysis, and proper barcoding, so that products are released to production that meet full regulatory compliance with HACCP, Food Safety and Food Defense standards for manufactured products and feed ingredients
• o Quarantines and releases products in line procedures
• o May manage specific medicinal feed additives

Quality Control throughout the (production) process:

• o Ensures compliance throughout the production process with the relevant procedures and standards, in accordance with the organization guidelines and ISO, UFAS, QS and other relevant guidelines, in order to ensure that the products meet the required quality with minimization of costs.
• o Interpret and comply with quality assurance standards

Quality control of finished products:

• o Executes the control of all finished product samples, which includes collection, inspection and storage of all finished product samples.
• o Manages storage, registration and handling of samples for analysis
• o Processes Finished Goods specifications into the appropriate systems to assure compliance to both Nutreco and customer expectations.

Optimization / Continuous improvement:

• o Manages and monitors relevant quality KPI’s, gathers and organizes statistical quality data, analyses data to detect areas for improvement
• o Recommends new quality policies or procedures to ensure high quality products, processes, or services.
• o Investigate problems in an effective and timely manner, suggests corrective actions, in case quality inspection outcomes reveal problem areas
• o Promotes all aspects of Quality Control with all relevant departments, supports the communication of quality programs and standards to the organization and may coordinate training in relevant areas.

Quality Systems / Certificates and Audits:

• o Carries out routine audits to support Production and maintain governance to internal, ISO and customer standards. Feedback results and ensures follow up.
• o Participates in internal and external (customer) audits and is actively involved in post-audit actions
• o Carries out daily / weekly plant specific hygiene, pest control and other controls / audits
• o Performs routine checks of Quality and Production documentation

Complaints and faults handling:

• o Investigates / analyses customer complaints, in process production faults and other non-compliance issues and reports the results for resolution by relevant departments.