Quality Systems Coordinator

Griffith Foods is a global manufacturer of food products.  We provide a wide range of taste and texture components for food industry customers throughout the world.  Our products include seasoning blends, dry mixes, coating systems, dough blends, crumbs, flavors, sauces and food bases that are used in an extensive variety of application from snack foods and processed meat and poultry to ready meals. Our customers include food processors, restaurant operators and grocery retailers.  While our name may not be familiar to consumers, our products are key components of foods offered by many of the world’s best-known companies.

Position: Quality Systems Coordinator

Location: Monterrey, Nuevo León

Summary:

• Leadership to Monterrey plant  Quality Systems, coordinate  operative group to closely align efforts and measure performance of quality systems in the operative  areas from Monterrey plant as audit requirements  . Enabler for our site to use the structure of  quality  and transforms our plant  better understand customer quality requirements. Creates alignment and commitment with our global quality initiatives, which is set to deliver improved performance consistency, standards consistency, customer satisfaction .

Major duties & Responsibilities:

• Execution of FSQS internal programs to comply with the British Retail Consortium (BRC) Food Safety and Quality framework.
• Execution  the Monterrey plant food safety and quality systems programs and compliance, as well as local  policy setting.
• Leads and develops the internal audit program to standardize quality systems and food safety personnel and programs across Monterrey  faciliti, including best practice utilization.
• Leader of traceability and recovery exercises, support in real situations to Quality Management Identify the root cause of failures in the quality system, in such a way that it defines actions to eliminate deviations together with the equipment.
• Communication with internal staff to work together to solve the deviations detected
• Communication with the client to follow up on audit reports
• Assures compliance to the religious audits (kosher,Halal) .
• Ensures alignment of documents control of operative systems Monterrey plant
• Assures compliance to the internal programs as training program,GMPs,Food defense, Food fraud,allergen control, kosher program, etc
• Conducts supplier audits as well as supplier/raw material approvals
• Participation in the HACCP team, covering the leadership of the team in the absence of a Quality Manager
• Coordinate  external audits (target, government and special requirements (kosher, Halal, etc.)
• Keep quality system food safety procedures and programs up to date
• Identify the root cause of failures in the quality system, in such a way that it defines actions to eliminate deviations together with the equipment.
• Communication with internal staff to work together to solve the deviations detected.
• Communication with the client to follow up on audit reports.

Knowledge and Experience:

• Bachelor of  Science of foods or equivalent degree.
• 3-5 years related experience in the food industry and the food safety and quality systems  functions.
• Knowledge of: internal audit program, quality systems, allergen control, traceability, recall, GMPs programs, preventive control, corrective actions programs, third party audit and GFSI (Global Food Safety Initiative).
• Experience with ERP  systems.
• Proficient in MS Office Skills, such as Word and Excel.
• Bilingual.