Site Quality Specialist - Videbæk

Are you good at engaging with people across different departments? Would you like a job where you drive the implementation of QEHS policies, enhance food safety and product quality, and promote continuous improvement initiatives? Then you could be the colleague we are looking for.

The Site Quality Specialist at Danmark Protein plays a crucial role by engaging with all departments to ensuring food safety, and maintaining our high quality standards, implement customer, and authority requirements. You will be responsible for ensuring product quality by applying AFI and Arla Foods QEHS policies, meeting relevant standards, and addressing customer demands, legislation, and site-specific requirements in a cost-effective manner.

How you will make an impact

You can look forward to joining our Quality Assurance Team,  consisting of 10 skilled and dedicated employees, as a part of the Site QEHS department that includes 25 employees in total. Here,  you'll play an important role in ensuring product quality and safety while driving continuous improvement initiatives. Your responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring product release aligns with customer specifications, analyzing results and non-conformities, investigating product quality-related customer complaints, and participating in audits and training initiatives.
• Collaborating with various departments to ensure compliance and alignment with Arla Foods’ mission, strategy, and values, as well as Danmark Protein Essentials and Business Plans.
• Leading continuous improvement efforts using LEAN tools, developing and implementing improvement tools, and promoting a digital mindset through data-driven decision-making.
• Supporting the QEHS Business Plan by participating in its development, working on activities, and providing risk assessment and crisis management.
• Coaching teams and individuals within the quality and production functions, and engaging with managers and colleagues to maintain process compliance.
• Collaborating with the Production department, as the most important partner, along with the Product Manager, AFI R&D, and AFI global QEHS to ensure product safety and compliance, while facilitating HACCP activities in production departments.

Your workplace will be at our site Danmark Protein in Videbæk.

What will make you successful

You hold a formal education in the relevant area, complemented by several years of experience. You demonstrate a proactive approach, taking the lead on tasks with a positive mindset. Your holistic view and organizational understanding enable you to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in ways of working. You are adept at independently prioritizing tasks based on their importance and making decisions within your area of expertise.

You have verbal and written communication skills in Danish and English.

Would you like to join us?
Please do apply as soon as possible as we conduct interviews ongoing.

If you have questions to the role, please contact Quality Assurance Team Manager: Tatjana Lykke Piekut Sandgaard at +45 9131 9785

About Arla Foods Ingredients

Arla Foods Ingredients (AFI) is an independent company within the Arla Foods Group, consisting of a little over 2000 colleagues globally.  Our headquarters is located in Aarhus, Denmark. However, we have a global presence with subsidiaries and regional sales offices spanning South America, Asia, Europe, and Northern America.

We are the global leader in improving premium nutrition and our purpose is clear: Together we discover and deliver powerful nutrition for a stronger tomorrow. Together with our customers, research partners, suppliers, NGO´s and others, we discover and deliver ingredients and products that can advance lifelong nutrition for the benefit of consumers around the world.

By joining us, you’ll find plenty of opportunities to shape your own development in a company that has achieved double-digit growth every year for a quarter of a century. While our factories may be packed with shiny steel vats, our labs look like something from the space program and our offices are awash in spreadsheets, we are a fundamentally human company with a genuine commitment to sustainability.

Read more about what it means to work with Arla Foods Ingredients: https://www.arlafoodsingredients.com/about/career/#career.

We have a purpose for Good

At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it Stronger People Stronger Planet and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and founded on our commitment to respecting human rights, increasing access to healthy dairy nutrition, inspiring good food habits, and improving the environment for future generations. In order to succeed we need to hire people with a sustainable mindset. Could this be you?

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