Nestle's Research & Development Center is our regional powerhouse driving innovation in food, beverage, and pharmaceutical science. Backed by our global Nestle R&D organization, we lead breakthrough discoveries that are both good for consumers and the planet. Our team of experts range from product developers to engineers, working across our portfolio of food, beverage, infant nutrition, and health science to create leading-edge products and services. As part of our organization, you will use your entrepreneurial spirit and commitment to excellence to unlock the power of food and provide premium value.
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Responsibilities
Represent Quality & Food Safety on specified development projects, including Accelerators. Execute Quality and Food Safety Project Deliverables. Ensure quality, food safety and compliance assessments are conducted correctly prior to project industrialization.
Assess food safety for culinary (frozen & chilled) products, ingredients and processes, including designing and overseeing scientific studies (shelf life, challenge studies, predictive modeling, method development), utilizing proper design of experiments principles.
Author and support continual implementation and training of relevant Quality & Food Safety standards and guidelines, as determined by B-Food and Nestle Professional SBU. This may include but is not limited to reference Manufacturing Monitoring Scheme (rMMS) and model Quality Monitoring Schemes (mQMS).
Provide expertise and category deliverables on quality and food safety topics including foreign body, allergen, and chemical contaminants.
Conduct Technical Acceptance food safety evaluations of sensitive products on behalf of B-Food or Nestle Professional SBU, leveraging a digtial system.
Support relevant markets with food safety expertise through Technical Assistance.
Support and lead (as needed) projects to support digial ways of working within Quality and Food Safety.
Provide expertise and support for the Site Quality and Food Safety team for site compliance, internal audits, and the food safety team (as needed).
Requirements
Minimum of 2 years' experience in the food industry manufacturing or research and development (ideally having exposure to product development activities and frozen and chilled food manufacturing facilities, including USDA and FDA).
Experience with chemical contaminants, allergen management and foreign body management is desirable.
Experience with rMMS/mQMS and inspection plans is desirable.
Quality Management Systems experience is desirable (implementation & auditing ISO 22000/ISO 9001).
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