Brand: Post Consumer Brands
Categories: Quality
Locations: Battle Creek, Michigan
Position Type: Regular Full-Time
Remote Eligible: No
Req ID: 30133
Job Description
Business Unit Overview
Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company's portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles 'n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.
Brand
At Post Consumer Brands, we've spent generations showing up for families, starting with breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Our cereals have become a trusted part of daily routines, helping spark conversations, fuel busy mornings, and create everyday moments that bring families closer together, including their furry four-legged family members, who have recently become a part of our story. As families have evolved, so have we. What began at the breakfast table has expanded into snacks, peanut butter, and pet food, because caring for a family means feeding every part of it. With the addition of several iconic pet brands, we've extended our purpose: to make high-quality, accessible food for everyone under the same roof.
This phase is still new, and that's what makes it exciting. As we continue to grow across grocery and pet, we're looking for people who care about good food, thoughtful work, and the kind of impact that stretches from store shelves to kitchen tables, and food bowls, across the country.
Location Description
Post Consumer Brands in Battle Creek, Mich., the cereal capital of the U.S., is the company's largest manufacturing plant and home to about 600 team members. When you join the team here, you'll be helping to produce some of the most iconic cereal brands, including Honey Bunches of Oats cereal, PEBBLES cereal, Grape-Nuts and Honeycomb cereal. The Battle Creek plant is also unique as it is home to the original barn where C.W. Post started the Postum cereal company in 1895. The Battle Creek team has deep community roots, supporting the city's Cereal Festival, The Post Foundation, and participating in several volunteer events throughout the year.
Responsibilities
Overview:
Provide technical quality support to Quality Assurance, Operations, and Product Development with an emphasis on continuous improvement, consumer/customer requirements, and continuous product quality. Act as the official back-up for the Plant Quality Manager. Support, implement, and maintain food safety, food safety culture, and quality practices as required through SQF. Responsible for completing job duties in a manner that supports all plant safety, food safety, quality, and environmental practices. This position has shared responsibility as QFS practitioner and/or back-up practitioner.
Responsibilities and Accountabilities :
Coordinate, perform, and write work instruction for audits and test methodologies on finished and intermediate products, ingredients, and systems as requested.
Conduct consumer and customer complaint investigations and report findings to consumer affairs group.
Develop and conduct Quality function training for assigned Plant personnel.
Manage plant Quality database for the plant, act as the super user for the plant.
Act as Document Coordinator for the department.
Support the Plant Quality Assurance Manager in planning plant quality systems, procedures and methodologies to meet internal and external customer expectations.
Interact with ingredient vendors by providing information and insight into non-compliant ingredient occurrences to track costs and assist in corrective action procedures.
Coordinate interaction with outside lab equipment, supplies, and quality service vendors to review new and innovative quality product and services.
Analyze noncompliance trends for assigned plants and develop improvement plans in conjunction with Plant Quality Assurance Manager and Operations Management.
Provide support to Operations for prerequisite program development outlined in the Food Safety Plan.
Qualifications
Job Requirements
Education :
Four-year college degree in Food Science, Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, or other related field of study required
Preventative Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) and SQF Certification preferred
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years food product experience required preferably in a Quality role. Some managerial experience is preferred.
Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Excellent organizational and problem solving skills
Ability to work with a PC and have demonstrated math/statistical computation skills
Knowledge of SPC
Ability to work safely with chemicals, as well as, in and around equipment
Ability to compile, analyze and present collected data in summary form as well as being capable of performing a variety of tests.
Ability to communicate technical, scientific, and regulatory information, both written and verbally.
Interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to make presentations, facilitate meetings, probe for root cause, and provide training to various groups within the organization
Knowledge of CI problem solving tools.
Job Requirements
Education :
Four-year college degree in Food Science, Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, or other related field of study required
Preventative Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI) and SQF Certification preferred
Experience:
Minimum of 3 years food product experience required preferably in a Quality role. Some managerial experience is preferred.
Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Excellent organizational and problem solving skills
Ability to work with a PC and have demonstrated math/statistical computation skills
Knowledge of SPC
Ability to work safely with chemicals, as well as, in and around equipment
Ability to compile, analyze and present collected data in summary form as well as being capable of performing a variety of tests.
Ability to communicate technical, scientific, and regulatory information, both written and verbally.
Interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to make presentations, facilitate meetings, probe for root cause, and provide training to various groups within the organization
Knowledge of CI problem solving tools.
Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or actio
