Description
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At Lactalis in the USA, we’re committed to providing meaningful opportunities for our people to learn, grow, and thrive—whether you’re just starting your journey with us or looking to take the next step in your career. From day one, we offer the tools and support to help you succeed.
As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.
In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.
At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.
Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.
Requirements
OVERVIEW
Murfreesboro is a high performing, multi-platform non-union facility with over 300 employees leading the safe, high-quality production of a wide range of dairy products. This site supports the Midwest Yogurt business across over 10 production lines. This Quality Systems Coordinator position will be responsible for supporting Food Safety, Quality, and Regulatory work at this facility.
KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Provide Food Safety & Quality support through execution of various programs and maintenance of records in areas of regulatory compliance, product quality, food safety, sanitation, ingredients, and defect handling
• Collaborate with Operations, Maintenance, Sanitation and Engineering as necessary to coordinate non-conforming raw material and finished product dispositions
• Using Quality Engineering principles, collect, analyze, and interpret in-process and analytical data to make quality evaluations and recommend actions for raw material and product dispositions
• Provide tactical support to the Food Safety and Quality organization in matters of system updating, documents management and record-keeping
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
• 1+ years of quality, food safety or related experience
• Ability to influence constructive, positive changes within a plant environment
• Clear, concise, well directed communication/ability to employ multiple communication styles to execute a given task
• Ability to flex work schedule when required to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation. This includes occasional early/late work hours.
• General understanding of product quality, sensory, sanitation and food safety
• Ability to understand the tools of problem solving and decision making.
• Demonstrated initiative and bias for action
• Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel)
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
• 3+ years of quality, food safety or related experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering or Food Science
At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one. We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.
Lactalis is an equal employment opportunity employer. We will not discriminate against applicants with regard to any legally-recognized basis including, but not limited to: veteran status, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, and physical or mental disabilities. Further, any division of the Company that is an Affirmative Action Employer will comply with all related legal obligations.
Skills Required
- 1+ years of quality, food safety or related experience
- Ability to influence constructive, positive changes within a plant environment
- Clear, concise communication and ability to employ multiple communication styles
- Ability to flex work schedule to support a 24/7 manufacturing operation, including occasional early/late hours
- General understanding of product quality, sensory, sanitation and food safety
- Ability to understand problem solving and decision making tools
- Demonstrated initiative and bias for action
- Ability to be comfortable with ambiguity
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel)
- 3+ years of quality, food safety or related experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or Food Science
What We Do
Lactalis Midwest Yogurt is a division of Lactalis USA that manufactures and markets yogurt products, including popular brands like Yoplait, Oui, Go-Gurt, :ratio, and Mountain High. They are committed to making great-tasting yogurts for families.
