Senior Quality Specialist- Microbiology

As a Senior Quality Specialist at Nestlé Nutrition & Health, your mission is to ensure quality by design through scientific and technical guidance that supports innovation and delivers products and processes right first time. You will bring microbiological safety expertise to the innovation projects and support the overall product category. You'll make a difference by collaborating closely with cross-functional project teams, operations, and factory partners. This is your opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and make a difference at scale. You will support our Nutrition & Health Meals & Drinks category global manufaturing network by creating and maintaining category specific specifications to assure Quality by Design. People and know-how: • Promotes quality and food safety awareness. Contributes to competence development of quality professionals across the category/business by providing training and awareness related to Nestle Standards, Nestle/NDC Quality processes and GMPs. Quality mastership: • Project team member engaged in NDC Innovation / Renovation projects assuring Quality function deliverables throughout project stages. • Perform Food Safety Assessments and develops pHACCP and pQMS for new product/technology projects, including support to factories for implementation. Maintains and creates model HACCP, rMMS, and other category or Nestle standards and guidance instructions. • Ensures Quality and Food Safety technical knowledge transfer to operations through engagement, training and handover of projects. Provides training to all functions which need to have an insight into quality and food safety, and which need to implement quality and food safety in their own job deliverables. • Ensures full compliance to Nestlé Standards and Regulatory requirements. • Provides support for Nestle Development Center Pilot Plant Qualiy and site compliance • Embraces and leverages digital solutions and platforms to enable speed and accuracy. Seeks to find or develop new digital solutions to enhance the output of the role to ensure we maintain a competitive advantage Quality auditing and verification: • Promote compliance with the Nestle Management System requirements and other applicable Standards. • Support visits from regulatory bodies, such as FDA or USDA, and external certification bodies. In addition, Supports factory trials or vendor qualification as required by project. • Leads the microbiological safety requirements and risk assessmenst for the category; also partners with the global microbiological safety network Technical Assistance: • Provides assistance to Quality functions in factories and Application Groups EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS • Bachelor's Degree Required, Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, Biotechnology, or other related science degrees • Preferred; masters in Microbiology, Food Safety EXPERIENCE & SKILLS REQUIREMENTS • Minimum of 5 - 7 years of experience in food industry in quality, R&D or manufacturing areas • Team member in the quality department of a factory, PTC/R&D, Centre, NR, NQACs • HACCP team member • ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000 certification is preferred • Ingredient specifications • Experience with quality by design • Direct expeience in microbiology, micribiological safety, factory hygiene required Salary: $88,954.20 to $121,851.00 per year Bonus Eligibility: Yes The pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Final compensation may vary based on factors including but not limited to knowledge, skills and abilities as well as geographic location. It is not typical for an individual to be hired at top of range. Nestlé offers performance-based incentives and a competitive total rewards package, which includes a 401k with company match, healthcare coverage and a broad range of other benefits. Incentives and/or benefit packages may vary depending on the position. Learn more at https://www.nestlejobs.com/nestle-in-the-us-benefits