Job Title:  Quality Food Safety Technician

No Relocation Assistance Offered
Job Number #164724 - Richmond, Indiana, United States

Who We Are

Colgate-Palmolive Company is a global consumer products company operating in over 200 countries specializing in Oral Care, Personal Care, Home Care, Skin Care, and Pet Nutrition. Our products are trusted in more households than any other brand in the world, making us a household name!

Join Colgate-Palmolive, a caring, innovative growth company reimagining a healthier future for people, their pets, and our planet. Guided by our core values—Caring, Inclusive, and Courageous—we foster a culture that inspires our people to achieve common goals. Together, let's build a brighter, healthier future for all.
 

Job Summary

The Food Safety Technician serves as the primary support for the Food Safety program and regulatory compliance, ensures that the facility and all equipment is ready by verifying all required cleaning and sanitization processes, supervises the Cleaning and Sanitation Service to ensure performance is to standard, and supports the execution of the Plant’s Quality Systems and Key Performance Indicators (KPI’s). This position will also have primary responsibility for implementing and maintaining food safety principles, HACCP, sanitization, current Good Manufacturing Practices, Integrated Pest Management, and environmental programs. In addition, this position will have primary responsibility as the backup for food safety document review, document management, and regulatory compliance. 

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Performs ATP and microbiological sampling for the established environmental program and cleaning and sanitization verification using aseptic technique. Troubleshoots issues and provides corrective actions for sanitation non-conformances. 

• Performs inspections of the entire facility for sanitation, pest control, and other food safety related issues. Including assigning tasks and following up on issues found.

• Develops and implements Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) to ensure compliance with plant, corporate and regulatory agency policies. Assists in writing or modifying procedures related to the HACCP prerequisite programs to support food safety compliance. 

• Assists in the root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures for Food Safety non conformance and all-encompassing documentation.

• Responsible for updating the Food Safety critical metrics and collaborating with the internal plant teams on continuous improvement and compliance initiatives to regulatory standards.

• Assists in the scheduling and coordination of the various Food Safety Plans to drive continuous improvement and compliance to the industry standards. 

• Participates in the development and review of prerequisite programs, Food Safety Site Plan, Master Sanitation Plan, and Food Safety activities.

• Assists with the Richmond Plant HACCP program by reviewing, updating, documenting compliance, and training in the plant.

• Executes quality and food safety training to all plant employees. Monitor and supervise all training to completion.

• Collaborates with the integrated pest management professional and documents findings, corrective actions, and preventive measures.  Responsible for tracking and trending of the pest captured, findings, and reporting of results.

• Understands and align with Hill’s policies, safety standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and Food Safety. Identifies and reports Food Safety issues to management.

Basic qualifications include: 

• Bachelor's Degree and at least 1 year of experience in a manufacturing facility

• Ability to work any shift including weekends

Preferred qualifications include: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Science or Technical field is preferred

• 1 year of previous quality/food safety experience as applicable to all aspects of Food manufacturing is preferred.

• Knowledge of HACCP with previous experience applying HACCP principles preferred.

• Knowledge of SQF (Safe Quality Food) principles and requirements as it relates to pet food manufacturing.

• Previous supervisory work experience.

• Previous auditing experience working with AIB, SQF, FDA, or USDA. 

• Proven understanding of statistical software packages preferred.

Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range $51.200,00 - $70.000,00 USD

Pay is determined based on experience, qualifications, and location. Salaried employees may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, profit-sharing, and long-term incentives for Executive-level roles.

Benefits: Salaried employees enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, basic life insurance, paid parental leave, disability coverage, and participation in the 401(k) retirement plan with company matching contributions subject to eligibility requirements. Additional benefits include a minimum of 15 vacation/PTO days (hourly employees receive a minimum of 120 hours) and 13 paid holidays (vacation days are prorated based on the employee's hire date within the calendar year). Paid sick leave is adjusted based on role and location in accordance with local laws. Detailed information regarding paid sick leave entitlements will be provided to employees upon hiring and may be subject to adjustments based on changes in legislation or company policies.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Achieving our purpose starts with our people — ensuring our workforce represents the people and communities we serve —and creating an environment where our people feel they belong; where we can be our authentic selves, feel treated with respect and have the support of leadership to impact the business in a meaningful way.

Equal Opportunity Employer
Colgate is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status (United States positions), or any other characteristic protected by law.

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