Quality Engineer II - Kansas City, MO

OVERVIEW

As a Quality Engineer II, you will be responsible for championing food safety and quality on your systems as well as across the 2 Operating Units (OUs) that Kansas City services. This role reports to the Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) Manager. This position will work closely with the Operations team to provide quality, regulatory, and sanitation technical expertise to deliver excellence in product quality and food safety.

You will also have the unique opportunity to impact the Innovation, Technology, and Quality function by leveraging your knowledge and skills to provide deep technical expertise, become a leader of global connections, and be recognized as a valued partner for our plant, sourcing, and business teams. The right candidate for this role will leverage strong project management skills, relationship management skills, be results-orientated, and be able to find opportunities for value creation in order to help the company succeed.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to develop communication and influencing skills, a deep technical expertise in food safety and quality, and you will have exposure to manufacturing environments both inside and outside of General Mills.

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KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provide FSQ leadership and direction through technical mastery in the areas of regulatory compliance, sanitation, materials/packaging, defect handling, FSRA & FSSC.
• Provide functional leadership as a member of a department leadership team and manage two direct reports.
• Provide leadership and technical support for R&D, HMM, reformulations, and new product start-ups.
• Provide leadership in the identification and implementation of product and process quality improvement opportunities and resultant productivity gains.
• Provide risk assessment analysis and manage issues with non-conforming products to ensure proper control, minimize losses, and provide analysis to eliminate future occurrences.
• Develop action plans with Operations, R&D, Engineering, and FSQ teams to ensure product specifications, analytical procedures, and sampling programs are appropriate and meet system capability and key consumer requirements.
• Using quality engineering principles, collect, analyze, and interpret in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations, and recommend actions for improvement.
• Provide leadership for sanitation excellence.
• Provide training in the areas of food science, applied statistics, regulatory requirements, sanitation, and quality measurement systems.
• Review plans for new and changing systems and ensure effective product safety and sanitation design
• Ensure the department meets all GMP/Regulatory, Sanitation, and Product Safety Guidelines.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's degree in Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Foods Engineering, Packaging, Environmental Sciences, or Food Science
• 2+ years of relevant food safety, food quality, or other related experiences
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to manage through influence and work effectively with a variety of people, teams, and departments
• Demonstrated results-orientation
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and adjust priorities
• Ability to be flexible with work hours, shifting priorities, and ambiguity
• Communicate clearly and concisely (verbal and written)
• Proactive in addressing issues and seeking improvement opportunities
• Demonstrated understanding of technology, including complexities of products, machinery, and costs
• Ability to implement change
• Ability to train and develop others individually and in teams
• Proven leadership ability
• Knowledge of product protection and quality engineering principles

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Masters Degree in Microbiology, Chemistry, Biology, Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Foods Engineering, Packaging, Environmental Sciences, or Food Science
• 3+ years' experience of food quality experience in a food manufacturing facility
• Experience working in a Mill environment

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.