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  What you’ll do    The Quality Systems Sr Specialist provides functional leadership to develop, implement, maintain and improve Quality and Food Safety Management programs for the site and across the network to ensure that end products are safe for human consumption and meet customer, consumer and regulatory requirements to achieve business objectives. The Quality Systems Sr Specialist provides leadership to improve Q&FS Management System   Act as back up to the Quality and Food Safety Manager, provides leadership and technical expertise during incident investigation and risk analysis as well as provides recommendations for appropriate resolution   Lead the implementation of Global Quality and Food Safety Standards to ensure compliance with applicable statutory and regulatory food safety requirements   Lead the site quality and food safety management review process to identify improvement opportunities for quality and food safety management systems   Development and roll out of food safety training to the site and support functions (HACCP, Basic Food Safety)   Provide governance to the Microbiological verification, environmental program, Mycotoxin, Allergens, Cleaning and Sanitation programs   Provide governance to HACCP and Food Safety Plan within the site, provide input to the Value stream Food safety. Food Safety Team Leader at the site. Manage validation of CCP/OPRP preventive controls programs within the site   Responsible for providing site input to the Material Risk Assessments (MRA’s)    Lead root cause analysis investigation of food safety incidents and effective implementation of corrective/preventive actions   Lead Q&FS input for engineering related projects within the site and lead Commissioning, Validation and start up  Handover process for Q&FS.   Lead Q&FS continuous improvement projects for the site  to improve the brand experience.   Lead in combination with Q&FS Manager product related incident management process and provide recommendation on product disposition   Lead Communities of practice to drive standardization, and creation of best practices   Coach and develop associates in Q&FS team within the site or across the network.   How you’ll do it    Lead gap assessment  to  the Mars Global standards and regulatory requirements, lead the Food Defense Plan and continuous improvement of quality systems and  to ensure  compliance   Partners with supply Make and Engineering, R&D and other key stakeholders to implement changes, new process or new products in a safe manner and implement product quality conformance system    Responsible for providing outlining Q&FS requirements on engineering projects, developing all the Q&FS documents, SOP’s, delivering training for associates as required for the start of new lines or processes at the site and creating QFS best practices   Lead continuous improvement of QFS system and product quality and conformance to specification through analysis of data and evaluation of trends through use of statistical analysis for a given brand for region   Builds  knowledge of the company, processes and customers. Understands key business drivers and uses this understanding to accomplish own work.   Builds a network of cross functional partners to accomplish business objectives   Provides guidance and direction to others   You have    Minimum Qualifications   BS degree in Chemistry, Food Science, Food Safety, Engineering or related technical field   3 years of food manufacturing experience in a responsible position related to food safety or Quality and food safety