Onsite Night Shift Quality Specialist - Real-Time Decisions

Unilever Consumer Care Limited; Independence (MO); On-site; USD 59,000 - 89,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligible

Long-Term Incentive (LTI) eligible

Health and retirement benefits

Job summary

Unilever is seeking a Quality Specialist for D Shift (nights) at the Independence site. The role centers on real-time quality decisions, compliance, and leadership to ensure product safety and conformance across the overnight window.

You will work with Quality Lab Techs and production teams to drive process improvements, close deviations, and hand over cleanly to day shift. The position requires a strong quality mindset and hands-on problem solving.

Qualifications

• Bachelor degree in biology, food sciences, regulatory sciences, or chemistry.
• Minimum two years of quality related experience, preferably in a food environment.
• Experience with HACCP Plans, FSMA, and USDA preferred.
• Comfortable making independent, real-time quality decisions and leading during upset events.
• Strong analytical skills; ability to translate data into action and follow-through.

Responsibilities

• Serve as on-shift Quality authority for overnight operations, upholding specifications and the QMS.
• Ensure sanitation, quality specs, and regulatory compliance; identify and document gaps.
• Own hold management: identify, block, investigate and disposition materials in SAP/QualityOne.
• Identify, document and drive deviations to closure; ensure root-cause and CAPA hand-off.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Quality decision-making

SAP QM

QualityOne

Education

Bachelor degree in Biology, Food Sciences, Regulatory Sciences, or Chemistry

Tools

Excel

QualityOne

SAP QM

EWM

Job description

Unilever is seeking a Quality Specialist for D Shift (nights) at the Independence site. The role centers on real-time quality decisions, compliance, and leadership to ensure product safety and conformance across the overnight window.

You will work with Quality Lab Techs and production teams to drive process improvements, close deviations, and hand over cleanly to day shift. The position requires a strong quality mindset and hands-on problem solving.