Sr Specialist QRC Salty

Employer:                    The Hershey Salty Snacks Company

Position:                       Specialist, Salty QRC (Quality Regulatory & Compliance), Req ID #126457

Office Location:           1025 Reese Avenue, Hershey, PA 17033   

Duties: Act as Generalist with broad based knowledge in multiple areas including regulations, industry practices, Global Food Safety Initiative, quality systems, data management, manufacturing processes, development of policies and procedures, and ability to implement. Act as QA representative on cross-functional project teams, complex assignments and engineering projects including new manufacturing lines. Coordinate new product efforts from initial test runs to full-scale production to assure integrity of systems. Influence food safety and quality systems for new products/new manufacturing lines at external partners to meet company and regulatory requirements. Conduct quality systems audits across supply chain to provide assessments of adequacy and issues recommendations or guidelines to ensure compliance standards are met. Provide audit summaries to senior management and/or external business partners. Lead troubleshooting incidents of high complexity with potential large financial or regulatory impacts. Manage product holds and facilitate root cause analysis and develop corrective and preventive actions. Partner with cross-functional groups (Manufacturing, Marketing, Legal, etc.) and external business partners to ensure communications and action plans are established. Ensure timely and cost-effective resolutions are achieved. Facilitate process/procedure improvement sessions related to incident management, serious product quality issues, and overall quality system improvements. Develop and/or implement training programs to assure compliance and understanding of internal quality expectations and regulatory compliance. Provide leadership for specific programs, project management, training, and coaching of external quality teams. Travel 50% of work time domestically for consulting, auditing, training and development of quality managers and teams.    

Requirements: Bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering, food engineering/manufacturing or a related technical/engineering field plus three years of food manufacturing industry experience. Experience must include the following (but need not extend over the full period of required experience): Knowledge of federal and state food industry regulations including Food Safety Modernization Act, HACCP, Food Safety Standards.

To apply, please submit resume to recruitment@hersheys.com & ref. #126457. No calls/agents. No visa sponsorship.