.job objectivelaboratory and food safety guidelines for all products families- responsible to establish long-term goals, strategies, plans and policies in terms of metrics and food safety systems and comply with govenment and client regulations (requirements).- responsible to assist in establishing and maintaining a high level of quality compliance in all business units by benchmark and implementation of best practices throughout the- responsible for ensuring that all business units have a compliance approach with the same philosophy and conditions (one quality and food safety system).
*main responsabilities*:- generate, implement and maintain procedures and food safety systems to meet global regulatory requirements that may apply.- design and implement standardized procedures for measuring the quality characteristics of the products- establish statistical tools and optimal sampling plans in mp, work in progress and finished products.- establish statistical tools and optimal sampling plans in supply chain for evaluation of compliance with critical control points in market- design and evaluate standardized ponts for measuring the quality characteristics in process using mes systems or equivalent tools in the value chain.- defines calibration, frequency and assurance standards (r + r) in the measurement laboratory equipment and in supply chain processes.- maintains consistent methods for the collection and analysis of statistical data, in order to predict important trends for the product quality along the value chain.- ensures that there is support to operations and continuous improvement teams for problem identification, resolution, and continuous improvement.- be a resource for quality equipment at each of our plants and technology teams to provide advice and training, as needed.- serve as a technical expert in the field on issues related to incidents of food safety and its possible implications for brands.- analyzes new regulations and proposed plans to ensure compliance with them creating new metrics, reporting and tracking trends as well as the necessary training elements.- actively participate in any product recall situation and monitor the withdrawal from the corporate levelknowledge- bachelor's degree (master degree preferably) in microbiology, food science, chemistry, biotechnology or related field.- preferably 3 years of experience in quality assurance/food chemistry and/or microbiology analysis.- knowledge in international methods for quality and safety of food.- knowledge of iso7025 certification and or laboratory management knowledge (preferred).- working knowledge in international metrics and food quality regulatory standards (preferred).- ability to interpret a variety of instructions in written, oral, diagrammatic or other form.- ability for statistics data analyisis and data visualization.- intermediate or advanced knowledge of microsoft word, excel software programs