Quality Engineer

Short Intro and About the Job At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a Quality Engineer based in our Chatsworth, California manufacturing facility.

The Quality Engineer will support the implementation of the Danone North America Quality Assurance standards through technical guidance, analysis, and leadership to continuously improve quality performance. The Quality Engineer is accountable for capability assessment and improvement in the areas of food safety controls, product specification performance, as well as cleaning and sanitation validation.

• Provide Quality and Food Safety technical guidance and analysis to help drive improvements in manufacturing processes, sanitation processes/systems, and quality systems.
• Represent Quality and Food Safety for the plant's Quality Pillar within the company's IWS program for assigned business unit(s).
• Ensure compliance with Danone Food Safety & Quality standards, ODA, FDA, and FSSC 22000 standards, and adherence to specifications. Support internal and external audit requirements. Perform necessary audit tasks and support closure of action items.
• Participate as a member of the Food Safety Team and assist in the development, revisions, and implementation of the Food Safety Plan.
• Support the Quality Management System and participate in development & review of quality and sanitation SOPs. Assist and potentially lead implementation of QFS programs.
• Develop, design, and conduct training and mentoring about food safety and quality topics to develop a strong quality culture.
• Assess and work to improve process capability across key product platforms.
• Compile and analyze KPIs indicative of production line health (quality performance, microbiological quality, preventive maintenance, sanitation effectiveness, etc.) and drive improvement actions.
• Investigate, analyze, and assess consumer and customer complaints. Develop, train, and launch the process to engage the entire manufacturing team to investigate and improve complaint processes. Ensure product non-conformances and process non-conformances are tracked and logged for corrective action into the Quality system.
• Develop expertise working within the various Danone ERP (SAP), WMS, LIMS, and Quality computer systems (Veeva).
• Support the analysis of customer and consumer feedback to identify improvement opportunities. Drive improvement by implementing corrective actions.
• Provide training and mentoring to operations teams on food safety and quality related topics to develop a strong quality culture.
• Support the validation of cleaning effectiveness via the sanitation ("Neptune") program.
• Support the development of quality and sanitation SOPs.
• Manage and troubleshoot non-conformances (raw materials, packaging, product, environmental monitoring, etc.) and drive root cause analysis. Assign corrective action, collaborate with supply-quality and other functions, and follow-up on completion.
• Support change management processes related to new products, packaging, equipment, and processes.
• Support and maintain FSSC 2200 requirements, including internal audits, verification activities, and documentation.
• Ensure compliance with all federal, state, and company food safety standards.
• Participate in food safety team activities and maintain accurate records.
• Proactively identify and resolve quality and food safety issues; participate in root cause analysis and continuous improvement.

The physical demand described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand;

walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must regularly lift and / or move up to 10 pounds, frequently lift and / or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift up to 50 pounds. Requires normal range of hearing and vision (including colors) to record, prepare and communicate appropriate reports and laboratory results.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee regularly works near moving mechanical parts and is regularly exposed to wet and / or humid conditions.

The employee may be exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and may be exposed to loud noises in the plant making wearing of…