SQA Dairy Technologist

Job description

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SQA Dairy Technologist

Salary - £41,732 - £62,598 + Bonus + Benefits

Location – SLO-Dundee Road, Slough, Berks, England, SL1 4LG, United Kingdom

The Supplier Quality Assurance technologist role undertakes the SQA process with suppliers to pro-actively ensure Supplier Quality Systems are in place to meet MARS Q&FS standards and enable the delivery of materials to MARS sites.

The principal accountability of this role are:

·  Knowledge of Mars technical requirements and assurance of the suppliers’ capability to deliver them.
·  Assess confidence in suppliers capability to meet specification and quality requirements
·  Objective supplier performance measurement to drive Continuous Improvement
·  Root cause resolution of material technical non-conformances
·  Technical development of the supply base to meet future developments
·  Alignment of suppliers with the Mars food safety management program

Working as part of the Commercial Supplier Quality Assurance team, the job holder will be developing new and existing Dairy suppliers to deliver our growth and commercial targets while ensuring they meet the Mars Global Quality standards. The relationship with internal clients is critical to this role to understand the needs of the business and the technical requirements for Dairy raw materials.

In this role you will:

·  Co-create & support implementation of Regional Dairy sourcing strategy, by developing a new healthy Dairy supplier base in our region.
·  Developing new Dairy suppliers to Mars according to our high Quality Mars standards, leading, supporting and coaching the suppliers to reach our minimum requirements, and drive for excellent performance.
·  Assessment and confirmation of supplier capability to meet MARS Quality standards by supplier risk assessment, SQA audit, review of analytical data, verifying supplier hazard controls are operating effectively to ensure all quality, food safety and legal risks associated with raw materials, their storage and transport are robustly managed.
·  To lead supplier audits, representing Mars in a professional way, motivating suppliers and building technical partnerships to deliver against the SQA quality performance measures.
·  Support the supplier to address gaps in Q&FS capability and suggest improvement areas to develop suppliers to meet the right Quality standards.
·  Develop technical expertise in the production of raw materials and keep up to date with technical developments in the industry that can set new standards and best practices for our suppliers
·  Resolve raw materials related technical/quality non-conformances through thorough root cause analysis and defining corrective and preventive actions with the supplier and good follow-through.
·  Define ambitious quality targets for the suppliers, and deliver year on year reduction in supplier non-conformance to support factory efficiency. Ensure regular reviews of supplier quality performance with suppliers.
·  Lead Category Quality performance reviews of our Dairy supplier base.
·  Implement Global Quality Standards in our regional Dairy supplier base.

To do this role you’ll need:

·  Bachelors or Master’s degree in Food Science / Technology, Chemistry or Microbiology
·  Supplier auditing experience, LRQA lead auditor
·  Experience in Dairy processing / technologies.
·  Good level of microbiology expertise.
·  Knowledgeable in quality management tools & techniques experience e.g. SQA, SPC, LEAN, HACCP.
·  Experience in facilitation & leading technical work-streams (with suppliers).
·  Proven record of problem solving ability using scientific knowledge & principles.
·  High learning agility (e.g. To understand and adopt IT systems).
·  Good understanding of raw material conversion processes.
·  Understandings of FMCG supply chain demands
·  Experience in project management.
·  IT literate, quick to learn & operate new computer based systems.
·  Can perform under pressure; handle several high profile projects over the same time line.
·  Able & willing to travel within Europe for supplier auditing & meetings upto 40%

In return, we offer:

• Great career progression

• Range of in-house training opportunities

• Competitive salary, bonus and range of large company benefits

We know it’s important to you to find out as much about us as possible, so following a review of your CV the first stage will be a telephone interview with the hiring manager and a chance for you to ask lots of questions. If successful you will be invited to an interview day in front of our panel. Don’t worry you’ll have plenty of time to prepare.

Posting Date: Thursday 23rd January 2020

Close Date: 20th February 2020

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