Quality and Food Safety Specialist - Montréal, Canada - Archer Daniels Midland Company

Archer Daniels Midland Company

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Montréal, Canada

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Montreal

Canada

Quality & Food Safety

Quality and Food Safety Specialist

Location Montreal, Quebec

Position Type Commercial

Salary Full-Time, Exempt

Compensation This position offers a complete benefit package, retirement, health, life, vision and dental insurance

Pre-employment Requirement Successful completion of pre-employment medical and reference check

About ADM

About the Position

We are seeking a Quality/Food Safety Specialist with initiative, flexibility, a positive attitude, & the desire to learn the business to join our Milling Team in Montreal, located on Mill Street.

This person has to be an organized, autonomous and dynamic player.

The Quality/Food Safety Specialist will be responsible for leading the manufacturing facilities with quality assurance, quality control and food safety areas.

The QFS Specialist will oversee the quality control laboratory and technicians. This role will play vital role in ensuring compliance with regulatory, corporate, customer & 3rd party audit requirements.

In addition, this position will be directly involved in the ongoing development, implementation & improvement of the local Quality Management System.

It is the expectation that the Quality/Food Safety Specialist will actively participate in continuous improvement objectives in order to meet or exceed customer requirements & business goals.

This position reports directly to Quality/Food Safety Manager.

Duties and Responsibilities

Keep safety a top priority in everything you do
Daily monitoring of the daytoday facility processing operations to ensure adherence to all regulatory standards.
Identification of & continuous monitoring for potential sources of contamination within each product flow. Assistance in foreign material investigations.
Assess product quality risk as needed in determination of final product disposition.
Control & disposition of nonconforming product: return, reject, & rework product
Conduct customer complaint investigations, including root cause analysis and corrective actions
Assist in developing, implementing & validating science based HACCP & FSMA Food Safety plans, associated prerequisite programs, & SOPs for each process area within the facility.
Maintain auditready status of plant. Preparation for 3rd party & customer audits.
Lead role in conducting internal food safety, GMP audits, & SOP audits.
Track & trend data to ensure new trends are not developing. Assist in developing & implementing a plan of action to improve areas identified for improvement.
Development & implementation of training programs to instruct employees to monitor & document HACCP, SOP, & other required functions.
Maintenance of the Microbiological Control Program, including the performance of swabbing activities, result trending, & corrective action implementation & followup
Assurance of

Positive Release:
record review, verification of compliance with filed processes.

QA Responsibilities
Receiving of ingredients/packaging
Calibration of laboratory equipment.

Calibration of critical measuring equipment:
work with Operations to ensure legal for trade scales are certified/calibrated & functioning within limits

Assurance of

adequacy & proper functioning of product protection devices, including but not limited to magnets, sifters, metal detectors, etc.

Directly responsible for advancing the Quality Culture at the Plant
Perform other duties as assigned and needed for the successful operation of the manufacturing facility.

Required Skills and Qualifications

Must be highly motivated with the ability of working independently, with mínimal supervision, while having a good team spirit.
Must have excellent interpersonal skills with an ability to communicate effectively and clearly both in writing and orally in both French and English.
Must be predisposed to multitasking and be able to prioritize and set goals.
Must be proficient in French and English, both spoken and written (A spoken and written English is required for this position due to business transactions and communication with American and other Canadian partners)

Education or Work Experience

Must have a minimum of a college diploma in Food Chemistry or a related field
Previous supervision experience.
Milling industry experience is an asset.
Solid understanding of HACCP & Quality Management Systems through HACCP certification and/or inspection & auditing certification.
Laboratory experience

Additional Information

Work in accordance with local/provincial legislation
Understands and is accountable for full compliance with safety and other EHS requirements

If you love the challenge of this dynamic career, then ADM will support and encourage your professional development and success.

We are an equal opportunity employer who values diversity in the workplace. If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please advise us in advance so that we can