Quality Specialist - Kennesaw, GA
This is a full-time, exempt position.
Nature & Scope:
The Quality Specialist oversees product-level quality programs including raw material and finished good specification set up and change control processes, label review programs, and customer requests. They will assist with customer complaint investigations and responses. The Quality Specialist will work closely with Document Control, Quality Control, Planning, and Production as a team to ensure timely completion and documentation of associated tasks.
Major Accountabilities:
- The Quality Specialists will become knowledgeable in Federal and other regulatory agency requirements, customer requirements and cGMPs to assure that product specific documentation are in compliance, and will train on and gain competency in activities to facilitate regulatory compliance. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to the following:
- Utilize scientific and regulatory knowledge to develop and manage all regulatory information related to ingredients, formulations, religious compliance, organic and label compliance
- Interpret regulatory rules or rule changes and ensure that they are communicated through corporate policies and procedures
- Maintain current knowledge base of existing and emerging regulations, standards, or guidance documents
- Create or complete customer-required documentation requested through regulatory requests
- Recommend changes to company procedures in response to change in regulations or standards
- Perform and maintain a quality risk assessment and provide timely recommendations and projects in response to emerging issues related to the company
- Evaluate and approve specification change requests for regulatory compliance and operational feasibility.
- Support investigations and responses to customer complaints and customer-related deviations
- Review and send product level validations to customers
- Reviews and compiles data obtained for customer-related validation, verification, and investigation activities.
- Collaborates with team members in the identification and implementation of continuous improvement initiatives and action plans.
- Other duties as assigned.
Education
- Preferred - 4 year university degree in science, biotechnology, or other related field.
Experience
- Experience working in an FDA regulated environment
- Experience in Federal and State Food Safety Regulations including HACCP and GFSI
Specific skills
- Ability to take initiative to maintain confidentiality, to meet deadlines, and to work in a team environment
- Leadership skills
- Must be able to manage multiple projects at once
- Must have the ability to assess situation and develop a solution
- Must have good attention to detail
- Must have the ability to adjust to changing work demands and priorities in a fast paced environment
- Effective communication and report writing skills; legible handwriting required
- Experience with Microsoft Office products with an emphasis on Excel
- Strong analytical experience
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly
- Results driven, strong work ethic
- Strong organizational and time management skills
- Ability to work with mathematical concepts such as probability and statistical inference. Ability to apply concepts such as fractions, percentages, ratios, and proportions to practical situations.
- Must be able to walk, bend, kneel, stoop, climb, reach and grasp for varying periods of time
- Ability to differentiate subtle variances in color
- Fluent in English required, bilingual (Spanish) preferred
- Must possess a valid US driver's license.
- PCQI certified for Human and/or Animal Food
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