Food Quality Specialist, Beilen, Drenthe

The Company
A major international producer of high-quality food ingredients, specializing in infant nutrition and operating one of the largest production sites in its sector. The facility employs several hundred professionals and is focused on delivering safe, premium-grade products used worldwide.

About the Role
This role focuses on improving and safeguarding the QA Release process while managing major quality issues across the production environment. Acting as a key link between QA and operational departments, the specialist drives root cause analyses, implements preventive actions, and ensures the highest standards of quality.

Responsibilities
- Identify key issues using complex data sets and conduct detailed trend/gap analyses
- Develop improvement action plans and KPIs
- Create management reports and contribute to improvement initiatives
- Lead or support RCA and SAAB sessions
- Act as first point of contact for quality issues and support production meetings
- Serve as backup for the QA Release Coordinator
- Prepare proposals for deviating items and coach team members
- Draft reports including FTR, RTFT, and quality notifications
- Provide data-based quality advice to stakeholders
- Participate in audits and inform relevant teams

Requirements
- HBO in Food Technology or HLO
- 5-10 years of relevant experience in food or pharma; dairy experience is a plus
- Knowledge of baby food standards
- Strong background in product, process, quality, microbiology, allergens
- Experience with SAP-QM and Power BI
- Strong communication, analytical and collaborative skills
- Fluent in Dutch and English

Other Information
- Laboratory background is an advantage

 

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