Food Safety Management Specialist HFX

Montpellier - France

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: Yesterday

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Job Description:

Segment : Royal Canin

Contract : Permanent/CDI

Location : Aimargues proche de Montpellier

Royal Canin vision of Total Quality Management aims at providing the highest Quality and food safety to delight pets and owners. Delivering the nutritional precision means a very strong control of the manufacturing processes and associated hazards.

The job holder defines the Royal Canin strategy to manage food safety through the analysis and control of biological chemical and physical hazards; and govern the deployment of the program in all RC factories with objective to prevent and reduce the occurrence of food safety hazards.

What are we looking for

Tertiary qualifications in Biology Food Science food engineering Food processing or related discipline
Strong knowledge about Quality and Food Safety Management systems (ISO 9001 / ISO 22000 HACCP FSSC)
Fluent in English
Strong understanding of Petfood factories supply and technology
Experience in Quality and Food safety in food industry
Experimented auditor (ICA/IRCA accreditation should be appreciated)

What would be your key responsibilities

Lead the Royal Canin strategy for HACCP and Food Safety Management Systems (FSMS) including HACCP and FSSC

Maintain the global HACCP plan for RC adding new CCPs o PRPs or PRPs as required by updating/maintaining the foundations such as hazard analysis and process flow
Understand how the Mars framework of HACCP and FSMS can be applied/optimized/combined to ensure compliance with the HARPC framework (FDA FSMA Animal Food Rule)
Recommend and drive implementation of a program (including external certification as FSSC) for Food Safety management
Provide clarification and advice on validation requirements and gather global validation information where required for the CCP/OPRP in the RC network (dry and wet)
Develop technical solutions which could become future CCPs/OPRPs securing further the food safety system of Royal Canin

Govern the standardization program for RC related to FSMS including HACCP

Own the following standards/procedures or certification scheme requirements at RC level: FSMS HACCP ISO 22000 FSSC Food Defense and FDA FSMA Animal Food Rule
Lead the deployment of new or revised standards / procedures certifications related to food safety and management systems
As a standard owner the job holder is accountable to drive compliance globally for the RC network
Monitor compliance and report the relevant KPIs to Royal Canin and Mars teams
Define the organizational knowledge around the standards in scope: build training define training plans and deliver training
Influence the Petcare / Corporate team for any modification or creation of new standards / procedures participating to its redaction where possible
Identify the levers to improve it and where needed lead projects with compliance roadmaps to have a technical solution meeting standard requirement
Define the needs for concessions and coordinate them for the RC network

Leads the QFS Community in Food Safety Management Systems for Manufacturing

Ensure capitalization of the knowledge following non-conformities incidents audit findings
Provide support and expertise related to Food Safety Manufacturing standards
Use the community to ensure efficient deployment of initiative and governance of performance

Be the Q&FS advisor for Food Safety Management Systems including FSSC and HACCP with our stakeholders in Q&FS and other functions

Strengthen the interface with SQA Engineering Regulatory Affairs and the other R&D teams
Clarify the roles and responsibilities related to FSMS implementation and FCCS deployment

What can we expect from Mars

You will work in a multicultural environment (more than 40 nationalities) and where your dog will be welcomed by more than 100 other Associates dogs at the office!
You will work in a unique campus which gathers more than 800 Associates working for: the international HQ the French subsidiary two laboratories a kennel and a cattery with more than 200 cats & dogs and finally the most important factory of the Royal Canin group
A unique and ideal work environment to become the leader in health through nutrition for cats and dogs!
You will evolve in the heart of an innovative production plant that will challenge you on a daily basis

Royal Canins CSR commitments to build a better world for tomorrow:

Since 2015 no waste to landfill is made by the 16 Royal Canin factories in the world
All Royal Canin products manufactured in Europe are ISO 14001 certified from design to factory gate
Since 2017 Royal Canin has supported the K-DOG program of the Curie Institute which trains dogs to detect breast cancer via olfaction.

Required Experience:

Job Description:Segment : Royal Canin Contract : Permanent/CDI Location : Aimargues proche de MontpellierRoyal Canin vision of Total Quality Management aims at providing the highest Quality and food safety to delight pets and owners. Delivering the nutritional precision means a very strong control o...