Plant QFS Director; Quality & Food Safety Plant Leader

Reporting to the Vice President, Quality & Food Safety, the Plant Quality Director leads the Quality and Food Safety agenda for the Boucherville plant. The role ensures compliance with Danone standards, regulatory requirements, and customer and consumer expectations, while serving as a strategic partner to the Plant Leadership Team.

Reporting to the Vice President, Quality & Food Safety, the Plant Quality Director leads the Quality and Food Safety agenda for the Boucherville plant. The role ensures compliance with Danone standards, regulatory requirements, and customer and consumer expectations, while serving as a strategic partner to the Plant Leadership Team.

The incumbent also drives quality performance, productivity, and continuous improvement through a Total Cost of Quality approach, and acts as the site Quality Pillar leader within IWS.

• Define and deploy the plant Quality & Food Safety strategy, aligned with Danone Global, Americas, and plant business priorities.
• Act as the plant QFS authority, escalation point, and crisis-management lead for major quality or food safety incidents.
• Ensure end-to-end compliance with regulatory requirements, Danone standards, certifications, specifications, product release rules, sanitation, metrology, and preventive maintenance programs.
• Lead the IWS Quality Pillar, including PDCA, daily management, run-to-target routines, built-in quality, risk assessment, and continuous improvement.
• Optimize the quality control plan from incoming materials to finished goods, including supplier quality, laboratory services, audits, non-conformities, RCA/CAPA, and process capability.
• Build a strong quality culture across the plant, supported by iCare, coaching, training, visual management, and 100% employee ownership.
• Manage the QFS budget, resources, CAPEX/OPEX, and productivity initiatives without compromising quality or food safety integrity.
• Lead, mobilize, and develop the plant QFS team, while building capability, engagement, mobility, and succession.
• Represent Boucherville in Americas and Global QFS networks and engage internal and external stakeholders on key quality initiatives.

• Audit performance, certification compliance, consumer complaints, specification conformance, and right-first-time results.
• On-time closure of non-conformities, RCA/CAPA effectiveness, and reduction of cost of non-quality.
• Quality culture, team engagement, IWS standards, and QFS team development and succession.

The annual base salary range for this position is $128,000 to $160,000 CAD. The final salary offered will be determined by factors such as relevant experience and qualifications, internal equity and external market conditions.

Danone Canada also offers a competitive short-term incentive bonus and a comprehensive benefits package, including group insurance, group retirement plans, wellbeing account, flexible time off, true hybrid work environment, paid parental leave, and other attractive options.

As part of our commitment to transparency in our hiring practices, we may use AI-enabled tools at certain stages of the recruitment process. However, all final hiring decisions are made by people.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in food science, food processing, or a related scientific field.
• Minimum 10 years of progressive QFS or operations experience in manufacturing; dairy experience preferred.
• Proven director-level leadership experience, including management of a diverse team.
• Strong knowledge of QFS systems and standards, including ISO, FSSC 22000, HACCP, PRPs, GMP, risk management, and statistical process control.
• Strong…