Description
Job Summary:
Responsible for ensuring food quality and safety, leading teams and promoting continuous improvement across the entire production chain.
Key Highlights:
1. Lead the quality team and promote continuous improvement
2. Ensure compliance with legal regulations and internal standards
3. Act preventively, analytically, and results-oriented
**Job Mission:**
Responsible for ensuring the quality and safety of produced food, guaranteeing compliance with legal regulations, internal standards, and customer expectations. Acts preventively, analytically, and results-oriented, leading the quality team and fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence throughout the entire production chain.
**Responsibilities:**
* Supervise and guide quality control and assurance activities during raw material receiving, processing, packaging, and product dispatch.
* Implement, monitor, and review Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP), HACCP/APPCC, ISO 22000, FSSC 22000, and other applicable standards.
* Coordinate internal audits and support external audits conducted by regulatory agencies (ANVISA, MAPA, customers, and certification bodies).
* Manage quality indicators, developing corrective and preventive action plans (CAPA).
* Validate raw materials, inputs, processes, and finished products according to specified standards.
* Supervise technical and operational teams, ensuring alignment with departmental strategic objectives.
* Promote training and continuous development of the team in quality, food safety, and industrial hygiene topics.
* Support new product development and process changes, ensuring compliance with safety and labeling regulations.
* Conduct periodic performance meetings and result analyses (PDCA and key performance indicators).
* Serve as an agent of quality culture and continuous improvement across the organization. Essential Organizational Competencies
* Customer Focus and Food Safety: deliver safe, high-quality products while understanding and meeting the needs of internal and external customers.
* Operational Excellence: pursue efficiency and defect prevention across all processes.
* Sustainability and Ethics: act transparently and responsibly, promoting sustainable practices and legal compliance.
* Innovation and Continuous Improvement: encourage innovation in quality methods, practices, and solutions.
**Behavioral Competencies**
* Inspirational Leadership: motivates the team, fosters a collaborative environment, and ensures engagement.
* Analytical Thinking: interprets data and evidence critically and objectively.
* Clear and Assertive Communication: conveys complex information objectively, adapting messaging to the audience.
* Conflict Management and Decision-Making: balances quality, cost, and timeline demands with strategic insight.
* Accountability and Discipline: ensures strict adherence to standards, deadlines, and regulations.
* Systems Thinking: understands the impact of quality across the entire value chain—from supplier to end consumer. Performance Indicators (KPIs)
* Reduction in non-conformities and process deviations.
* Percentage of audits rated as satisfactory.
* Customer complaint rate.
* CAPA plan implementation rate.
* Adherence level to Good Manufacturing Practices.
* Quality team performance and development
**Requirements:**
* Bachelor’s degree in Food Engineering, Chemistry, Biology, Nutrition, or related fields.
* Postgraduate specialization (e.g., MBA or Master’s) in Quality Management, Food Safety, or Auditing.
* Availability to work rotating shifts and attend in-person trainings and external audits.
**Benefits:**
* Transportation allowance
* Meal allowance (R$ 430.00)
* Attendance bonus (R$ 200.00 paid via FLASH card)
* Health insurance
**Working Hours:**
* Monday: 7:55 AM – 6:05 PM; Tuesday–Friday: 7:55 AM – 5:50 PM
Minimum Education Level: Postgraduate Specialization/MBA