Quality Systems Specialist At Nestle Egypt
Location: 6th of October City
POSITION SUMMARY
The Quality Systems Specialist will be responsible for overseeing and maintaining the quality management system, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements, and driving continuous improvement initiatives related to quality and food safety. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in food manufacturing, exceptional attention to detail, and a passion for maintaining the highest standards of quality and safety.
Job Description:
Develop, implement, and maintain the Nestlé quality management system in accordance with internal/external standards and regulatory requirements.
Conduct internal audits to assess compliance with quality, Food Safety and internal management systems procedures and identify areas for improvement.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to establish and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) related to quality and food safety.
Lead and coordinate the consumer complaint management in the factories with a proper handling of non-conformities, implementing corrective and preventive actions as necessary.
Stay up to date with industry trends, regulations, and best practices to ensure continuous improvement in quality and food safety processes.
Train and educate employees on quality management system procedures, standards, and practices that is related to her/his area of expertise.
Support regulatory inspections and customer audits, ensuring compliance with all applicable requirements.
Drive root cause analysis and problem-solving initiatives to address quality issues and prevent their recurrence.
Monitor and report on quality metrics, providing regular updates to management.
Ensure support to any new product development and engage with the business teams to have the updated Quality & Food Safety requirements.
Quality Pillar facilitator in the factories, execute TPM Quality plan with stakeholders and provide the required training accordingly.
Ensure compliance to Sensory and Packaging related standards, communicated updates from zone or market, share the action plan required and follow up on closure.
Initiate Monthly plan (senso-pack) sniff test for direct laminate and ensure compliance through execution with packaging team.
Maintain Quality plan creation/update and ensure compliance through execution follow up with the laboratory team.
Participate and assess new products introduced in Technical release and ensure new SKUs retention samples are archived for reference and other samples retained for KQT study and update KQT plan accordingly, and ensure the collection of the TA Documents, Communication & Archiving them for any historical data required or Audit purposes & ensure accessibility for all QA team.
Annual review of packaging QMS, ensure compliance to the relevant standards and legal updates and follow up on execution with the laboratory team.
Plan with packaging team the surveillance plan, send/support sending the surveillance plan to NQAC.
Responsible for the Net content Management in the two factories.
Job Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Quality Assurance, or a related field.
Minimum 2-4 years of experience in quality assurance or quality systems management within the food manufacturing industry.
Strong knowledge of food safety regulations, such as HACCP, GMP, and FDA/EU requirements.
Experience implementing and maintaining quality management systems (ISO 9001, FSSC, ISO 22000, etc.).
Excellent understanding of quality assurance principles, methodologies, and tools.
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to drive continuous improvement initiatives.
Demonstrate excellent collaboration skills with positive attitude.
Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.