Quality Specification Development Manager
Van Drunen Farms

Job Info

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The Van Drunen Family of Companies is growing!

WHAT'S GROWING AT VAN DRUNEN FARMS AND FUTURECEUTICALS? WE ARE!
As a global, growing, and vibrant ingredient and nutritional supplement supplier to the world's best companies, Van Drunen Farms and FutureCeuticals are always seeking positive and talented employees to help our company reach the
next level. We provide a family- oriented company and an opportunity to grow professionally and personally.

JOB OVERVIEW:
The Manager, Quality Specification Development role leads the development of Van Drunen Farms specifications. This role is responsible for the creation, distribution, maintenance, and optimization of all Van Drunen Farms specifications, including raw material, work-in-progress (WIP), and finished good specifications. This position ensures Food Safety and Quality via establishing specifications aligned across several variables, including supply chain capabilities, internal processing dynamics, regulatory requirements, risk assessments, customer requirements, and consumer applications. Ensuring alignment and optimization of specifications will require strategic and detailed work across multiple disciplines and departments. This role also works with the greater Corporate and Plant Quality Teams to understand specification failures identified via internal testing or customer complaints, implementing failure mode analysis to understand root cause and proposing preventive actions. Finally, this position is responsible for programs related to the distribution and maintenance all Van Drunen Farms specifications, ensuring that all relevant stakeholders have access to current specification documentation and all specifications are reviewed, updated, and optimized at the required intervals.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
Primary responsibilities include:

• Lead the development of Van Drunen Farms specifications for raw materials, WIP, and finished goods
• Execute appropriate chemical, microbiological, physical, and radiological risk assessments on Van Drunen Farms products
• Generate specifications via integration of information concerning internal processing capabilities, data analysis, regulatory requirements, customer requirements, and risk assessments of ingredients and consumer applications
• Create and lead specification generation guidelines and workflows
• Create and lead Specification Maintenance Program to ensure all Van Drunen Farms specifications are updated to consider current customer, regulatory, and scientific requirements
• Create and lead Specification Distribution Program to ensure all relevant stakeholders have access to current specification documentation
• Collaborate cross-functionally to evaluate germane non-conformances and customer complaints, executing appropriate root cause analysis and proposing preventive actions
• Liaise with R&D and Legal Teams as necessary to provide specification support
• Respond to internal and external specification inquiries as appropriate

JOB EXPERIENCE:

• Five or more years quality assurance experience required
• Experience in risk assessment, failure mode analysis, and specification development required
• Experience in food manufacturing or dietary supplement Quality Assurance required

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

• Intelligent, organized, equanimous, detail-oriented, good work ethic, positive attitude
• Effective prioritization and time-management skills
• Ability to think critically and analytically
• Ability to influence others (and teams) without direct reporting lines
• Ability to parse information from multiple sources and integrate into assessment platform
• Excellent grasp of microbiological, physical, and toxicological concepts, analysis, and risk assessment
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent root cause analysis and failure mode analysis skills
• Strong foundation in program development and implementation
• Strong presentation skills
• Strong leadership, training, and development skills
• Solid understanding of statistics and statistical analysis
• Solid understanding of supply chain dynamics
• Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project, and Outlook
• Intermediate data analysis and reporting in Microsoft Excel (or comparable software) preferred
• Tech savvy and willing to learn new methods to apply computing to maximize efficiency

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Microbiology, or related discipline required

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS:

• General office requirements, including lifting samples and documents with weight of less than 25 pounds.
• The ideal candidate must be able to complete all physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• General office conditions. Candidate must remain flexible between corporate office environment and working remotely.

Disclaimer
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and technical skills required of personnel so classified.

In the Van Drunen Family of Companies, commitment to excellence is in everything we do! As a global ingredient and nutritional supplement supplier to the world's best companies, we thrive on nourishing others with our products and our care for people. If you are looking to make an impact and grow with a family-friendly, values-driven company, you'll fit right in with the Van Drunen Family of Companies!

We are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. Our employees are the most valuable asset we have. The collective sum of the individual differences, life experiences, knowledge, creativity, innovation, unique capabilities and talent that our employees invest in their work represents a significant part of not only our culture, but our Company's achievement as well.

The Van Drunen Family of Companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws. This applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance or an accommodation during the application process, please contact us at recruiting@vandrunen.com.

Van Drunen Family of Companies does not accept unsolicited resumes. Any resumes, CV's, and other unsolicited assistance from search firms that do not have a submitted request and written search agreement for a position-specific requisition will be deemed the sole property of Van Drunen Family of Companies and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by our Company.

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