QC Leader / Laboratory Leader
Are you ready to become part of a leading FMCG company with real "love brands" on the market? We are looking for someone just like you in our Mátészalka factory team in QC Leader / Laboratory Leader role - a person with attention to details who oversees operations processes and can use their expertise in QC to ensure meeting our quality targets throughout or processes. If it is in your nature to seek out a challenge as part of a high-performing team, please read on.
FrieslandCampina Hungária Zrt. is an important player in the dairy sector with such well-known, beloved and leading brands on the market as the iconic Pöttyös, as well as Milli, Frico, Completa and Debic. All of our employees continuously strive for providing best-in-class dairy products to our consumers. Our company is also a real global player. Royal FrieslandCampina provides around 1 billion consumers all over the world with healthy food that is rich in valuable nutrients. We are looking for a Demand Planner for this role.
What we ask
- BSc/MSc in Food technology or its equivalent (Chemistry/Microbiology/Science Lab tech.)
- 5+ years of experience gained in similar role (including people management)
- Ability to work in a matrix organization with both functional and hierarchical reporting lines
- Well-developed analytical skills
- Good communication and clear decision making capabilities
- Change Management & influencing skills
- Adaptability to work throughout all organizational layers
- Working proficiency in both Hungarian and English (oral and written)
- Experienced user of MS applications
What we offer
- You can be an active member of the everyday life of a multinational company with a stable background and real "love brands" on the market
- Professional and challenging working enviroment, continuous learning opportunities
- Long-term development potential
- Opportunity to buy our products with an employee discount
Vacancy description
Ensure high level operations of QC area including strong people management to lead, support, mentor 10+ employees
Assure product compliance
- Release products via Incoming goods control, process control, product control, quality of utilities, monitoring trends.
- Assure handling and resolving of non-conforming product
- Establish batch sampling and testing plan (i.e. control plan)
- Perform extra sampling and testing in case of non-conformity
- Execute shelf-life testing
Provide lab services
- Provide internal and external lab services & process related product control
- Execute sampling and testing (physical, chemical, micro, sensorical)
- Execute sampling and testing environmental monitoring
- Adhere to FrieslandCampina Lab Standards (optmizing lab cost)
- Provide and process test results obtained by own lab or via external laboratory
- Preparation and sending of COA
- Sampling for contaminant monitoring and legal compliance food regulatory
- Manage external labs
- Set-up and validation of methods
- Involvement in the complaint handling process
- Perform problem solving; Assure an effective Q-problem solving process
- Responsible for the timely and correct assessment, analysis, optimization, verification and reporting of all analyzes at the in-house
- QC laboratory, the in-house company lab and at external laboratories.
(In scope:The entry control of the incoming raw materials and packaging materials, sample shipment and storage.)
- Ensure safety in the lab
- People management
Team Details
For thousands of people every day, we are more than just a dairy company. To our farmers, our employees, the communities we serve, the businesses we work with and the people to whom we bring happiness, FrieslandCampina means something more. For them it's not just about what we do, but who we are.
We value talented people from any background who want to contribute to something bigger than themselves. We encourage all of our employees to make decisions that benefit our entire company. At FrieslandCampina we own our own career and act accordingly. We trust you to make a difference in your job and influence the bigger picture. Working at FrieslandCampina means you are contributing to a better world.