Food Safety And Quality Assurance Technologist Milano

Food Safety And Quality Assurance Technologist
Milano
Lombardia, Milano

At HelloFresh, we want to change the way people eat forever by offering our customers high quality food and recipes for different meal occasions.

Over the past 10 years, we've seen this mission spread around the world and beyond our wildest dreams.

Now, we are a global food solutions group and the world's leading meal kit company, active in 16 countries across 3 continents.

So, how did we do it?

Our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients have blossomed into a community of customers looking for delicious, healthy and sustainable options.

The HelloFresh Group now includes our core brand, HelloFresh, as well as: GreenChef, EveryPlate, Chef's Plate, Factor, and Youfoodz.

HelloFresh Italia is part of a large group founded in Berlin in 2011: we are the world's leading meal kit provider delivering in 17 countries across 4 continents, with a revenue of €5. 9 billions in 2021.

We just entered the Italian market in October 2021, with a certainly innovative supply chain and a great sustainability effort, being the only carbon neutral meal kit company in the world.

We have great ambitions to expand and win over more and more Italian customers with our weekly boxes full of exciting recipes and fresh ingredients, offering amazing job opportunities, in a diverse, fast-paced and dynamic environment.

For our young and passionate team, we are looking for an FSQA Technologist who will take a hands-on approach and deliver strategic operational leadership across all aspects of ingredient quality.

**What you'll do**:

- Support the implementation of HelloFresh food safety and quality assurance requirements across HelloFresh Italy Distribution Centre's

- Work closely with the production team in managing food safety and quality from inbounding to dispatch, including ensuring conformance to HelloFresh standards, Food Safety Regulations, GMP, GHP, equipment management standards.

- Implement and support with quality control activities during inbounding and production.

- Oversee and supervise the acceptability of incoming goods based on the specifications defined with the supplier and HelloFresh standards.

Communicate with relevant stakeholders in case of serious product food safety and quality non-conformance

- Be responsible for compilation and maintenance of inspection reports and records (ex.

GMP records, temp logs, internal audits)

- Conduct transit temperature validation tests and drive improvement of CX based on its data

- Work with the procurement team and our suppliers to proactively manage suppliers' compliance with requirements, review and approve supplier specifications and onboard new suppliers

- Implement corrective/preventative actions arising from internal audits, customer complaints, regulatory visits, Root Cause Analysis or other internal / external processes

- Create and deploy food safety and quality procedures and training programs on core risks across the system ensuring compliance with HelloFresh and local legislative requirements.

- Collaborate with the International FSQA teams on strategic projects successfully adopting and implementing these locally

- Monitoring all quality data for trends, themes, identifying opportunities for improvement and developing solutions within the Distribution Center and customer delivery segment of the supply chain.

**What you'll bring**:

- Higher education in Food Science or similar discipline

- 1-3 years proven experience in food safety / quality role in warehousing and/or food manufacturing

- Experience working in a GMP facility and familiarity with HACCP principles

- Internal Audit experience, ideally implementing a GFSI standard

- Intermediate/Advanced MS Excel, Word, and PowerPoint skills

- Good command and usage of data to make informed decisions

- Excellent organizational and time management skills

- Strong Knowledge of italian food government regulations

- Strong communication skills

- Energy, enthusiasm, commitment and a can-do flexible attitude

- Embraces change, challenge and working in an autonomous way

- Previous experience in an international setting is a plus

- Excellent English skills required

**What we offer**:

- The chance to have a serious impact on one of the fastest-growing technology companies in Europe in an exciting growth phase

- Direct, high impact on our product and operations setup from day one

- A vibrant, international environment with mission-driven colleagues

- A guaranteed steep learning curve & boost for your career

- Competitive compensation and plenty of room for personal growth

- Benefit from our selection of employee perks (significant reduction on your HelloFresh boxes, development initiatives, high-end tech equipment, free drinks and snacks in the office, etc.

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**About Our Operations team**:

Our Operations teams are located throughout the markets we are active in.

We are a diverse group with a common focus, getting the best products to our customers, with the widest choice and the most flexibility.

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