Senior Quality Specialist

Foods you love. Brands you trust. And a career that empowers you to grow.
At Nestlé USA, we’re all working towards the same goal – to delight and deliver for our consumers. With a rich portfolio of beloved brands, including DiGiorno, Toll House, and Coffee mate, in 97% of U.S. households, we have a unique opportunity – and responsibility – to be there for every moment in our consumers’ lives.

Joining Nestlé means becoming part of an inclusive workplace that inspires innovation, encourages strategic thinking and creativity, and celebrates your achievements. No matter where you work within the organization, you are empowered to challenge the status quo, embrace risk‑taking, and pioneer new ideas. Our supportive and collaborative environment encourages bold ambitions and continuous learning so that everyone can grow and thrive.
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As a Senior Quality Specialist at Nestlé Nutrition & Health, your mission is to ensure quality by design through scientific and technical guidance that supports innovation and delivers products and processes right first time. You will bring microbiological safety expertise to the innovation projects and support the overall product category. You’ll make a difference by collaborating closely with cross‑functional project teams, operations, and factory partners.

This is your opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and make a difference on a scale. You will support our Nutrition & Health Meals & Drinks category global manufacturing network by creating and maintaining category specific specifications to assure Quality by Design.

• Project team member engaged in NDC Innovation / Renovation projects assuring Quality function deliverables throughout project stages.
• Perform Food Safety Assessments and develop pHACCP and pQMS for new product/technology projects, including support to factories for implementation. Maintains and creates model HACCP, rMMS, and other categories or Nestle standards and guidance instructions.
• Ensures Quality and Food Safety technical knowledge transfers to operations through engagement, training and handover of projects. Provides training to all functions which need to have an insight into quality and food safety, and which need to implement quality and food safety in their own job deliverables.
• Guarantees full compliance with Nestlé Standards and Regulatory requirements.
• Provides support for Nestle Development Center Pilot Plant Quality and site compliance
• Embraces and leverages digital solutions and platforms to enable speed and accuracy. Seeks to find or develop new digital solutions to enhance the output of the role to ensure we maintain a competitive advantage

• Promote compliance with the Nestle Management System requirements and other applicable Standards.
• Support visits from regulatory bodies, such as FDA or USDA, and external certification bodies. In addition, supports factory trials or vendor qualification as required by project.
• Leads microbiological safety requirements and risk assessments for the category; also partners with the global microbiological safety network

• Bachelor's Degree Required, Food Science, Microbiology, Biology, Biotechnology, or other related science degrees;
  Preferred; master’s in microbiology, Food Safety

• Minimum of 5 - 7 years of experience in food industry in quality, R&D or manufacturing areas
• Team member in the quality department of a factory, PTC/R&D, Centre, , NQACs
• HACCP team member
• ISO 9001 and FSSC 22000 certification is preferred
• Experience with quality by design
• Direct experience in microbiology, microbiological safety,…