Plant Quality Change Lead (QFS)

Danone North America; Jacksonville (FL); Sur place; USD 90 000 - 130 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

Danone North America is hiring a QFS Plant Quality Change Manager for our Jacksonville, Florida facility. You will lead quality change activities, ensuring GMP, food safety and regulatory compliance while partnering with production, engineering and QA teams to execute change projects.

You will develop qualification protocols, oversee validation and testing, review recipes and specs, manage budgets for trials, and contribute to continuous improvement across the plant's QFS program.

Qualifications

• Degree in Food Science or Engineering; required.
• 3+ years in QFS, Operations or Engineering in food industry.
• Strong knowledge of GMPs, food safety, and quality management principles.
• Experience with experimental design, data analysis, project management, SPC, CIP.
• Demonstrate mechanical understanding.

Responsabilités

• Participate in technical feasibility studies for plant projects.
• Conduct QFS risk assessments covering ingredients, process and packaging, as well as microbiological and controls validation, CIP, SPC and critical control operational requirements.
• Build Qualification Protocols for all projects in the plant and ensure all resources to carry them out are involved and trained.
• Ensure with QFS Assurance Manager all needed capabilities in the plant are implemented through trainings and knowledge enhancement.
• Review and approve new product/recipe and changes in existing ones proposed for implementation by central teams in terms of quality and process technology capabilities of the plant.
• Ensures all new Specifications are understood and implemented.
• Stay current with all key regulatory and certifying agency guidelines and relevant Danone standards.
• Evaluate situations and documentation related to deviations and product release, support deviation analyses.
• Coordinate the scope and quantity of laboratory tests related to recipe and raw material changes.
• Supervise the budget of conducted projects in terms of responsibility (production trials, laboratory tests, etc.).
• Supervise the costs of production trials according to the allocated budget (pricing and settlement of trials).
• Supervise the efficiency of the first implementation productions, approving recipes and processes after the first three productions.
• Responsible for the effectiveness of the quality documentation for authorities in all serious complaints.
• Ensure that all employees are covered by the food safety and quality training including Bamboo & Veeva management and training.
• Conduct activities aimed at improving material efficiency.
• Analyze recipe and raw material changes in terms of cost optimization - line efficiency, raw material losses, assortment transitions, and avoid increased complexity.
• Conduct and participate in cost-saving projects and create initiatives to increase productivity.
• Coordinate and conduct production trials and implementation productions of new recipes and raw materials in the plant.
• Conduct projects and implement recipe and raw material changes in the plant according to applicable plant procedures.

Connaissances

Collaborative

Leadership

Cross-functional

Mentoring

Communication

Documentation

Detail oriented

Formation

Degree in Food Science or Engineering

Outils

SAP

MES

PLM

Description du poste

Danone North America is hiring a QFS Plant Quality Change Manager for our Jacksonville, Florida facility. You will lead quality change activities, ensuring GMP, food safety and regulatory compliance while partnering with production, engineering and QA teams to execute change projects.

You will develop qualification protocols, oversee validation and testing, review recipes and specs, manage budgets for trials, and contribute to continuous improvement across the plant's QFS program.