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About Mars, Incorporated 

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $35 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, UNCLE BEN’S®, MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

 

Q&FS Specialist Wet

 

 

Job Purpose / Overview

 

The Job owner is member of the Site R&D Team in MER and responsible for:

• Implementation, Maintenance and Continuous Improvement of effective and lead quality systems to ensure a reliable and safe production within the legal requirements, the international and the Mars quality & food safety standards.
• Close cooperation and exchange with the central team (Q&FS, RDT), the local Site PPI and Supply team (Operations, Engineering, Maintenance) to ensure that the knowledge is transferred, and the systems, standards (internal & external), procedures and controls are established.
• Support a Manufacturing Site or Business Unit Q&FS team by managing and operating routine Q&FS processes & procedures.

 

What are we looking for?

 

Knowledge/Experience

 

• The Jobholder has a professional education in Food Technology, Chemical or Food Engineering, Food Science, Process Technology, Quality/ISO or other comparable qualifications like a bachelor or master study.
• Minimum 3 years job experience in one of the above mentioned job areas or finished study

• Experience in sterilization processes will be appreciated
• Experience in factory operation (food or pharmaceutical are preferred)
• Quality - Food Safety background
• Strong knowledge of manufacturing processes used to produce food, feed and petfood ingredients.
• Strong ability to work in multicultural teams and with people coming from different discipline and business areas.
• Demonstrated capability to lead cross-functional projects.
• Ability to communicate and transfer knowledge to others in various forms (presentations, reports, training…)

• English – advanced (written and spoken)
• Office knowledge (Excel, Word, Outlook), SAP, RADAR.
• Knowledge about manufacturing processes & Raw material functionalities
• Technical and scientific understanding for PCC

 

 

What would be your key responsibilities?

 

• Manage & operate routine Q&FS processes, procedures and metrics
• Lead Q&FS team in incident investigation & management
• Prepare Q&FS data for analysis
• Act as a product quality custodian & support building a quality culture in unit
• Lead all the change management process for thermal operations
• Lead the HACCP team raising issues of the process and evaluating risks
• Be responsible for the deployment and follow up of new guidelines / standards
• Lead Q&FS meetings, sharing learnings from other sites, work on SIRB solutions
• Participate as quality contact in projects implementations (Engineering, Innovation, Standard implementation);
• Responsible for the realization of agreed objectives, including short-term objectives to deliver to the site. Drive continuous improvement to improve the quality of our products, processes, performance and profitability à increase RFT.
• Lead and support the quality and food safety on site, by helping in the implementation the appropriate quality management tools.
• Responsible for the preparation and updating of Q&FS relevant training material. Conducting Q&FS trainings for the supply team up to the Site Management team.
• Responsible of the identification and control of production line specific Critical Control Points including the development, validation and the support of the commissioning of PCC relevant technology.
• Support the Independent and execution of gap analysis and initiating / taking appropriate actions.
• Risk assessment of innovation, renovation and COGS projects for the site. Furthermore, of change management requests and of new raw materials for the site.
• Lead the risk assessments for out of spec situations, level 2 trouble shootings and PRIMP’s.
• Lead the analysis of consumer complaints and as a result, initiate and support continuous improvement plans à cpm reduction.
• Internal auditor in the technology.
• Back Up for the Q&FS DRY and SSE.
• Lead the HACCP team and lead of the HACCP System in the responsible area.
• Participate in risk analysis of usage of raw materials, finished products and operational procedures modifications to assure that quality and food safety risks are evaluated, and a proper contingency plan is defined and followed
• Follow up and communicate Key Performance Indicators
• Be the first line in incident management / Lead root cause analysis of incidents in Wet process
• Detect and correct deficiencies in quality management process

Participate in regional/global Q&FS forums / Lead change management process for WET

 

What can you expect from Mars?

 

Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world, we want tomorrow, today.

Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.

An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

 

 

 

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.