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**Brand:** Post Consumer Brands

**Categories:** Quality

**Locations:** Jonesboro, Arkansas

**Position Type:** Regular Full-Time

**Remote Eligible:** No

**Req ID:** 28858

Job Description

Business Unit Overview

Headquartered in Lakeville, Minn., Post Consumer Brands, a business unit of Post Holdings, Inc., is dedicated to providing people and their pets with delicious food choices for every taste and budget. The company’s portfolio includes beloved brands such as Honey Bunches of Oats®, PEBBLES®, Grape-Nuts® and Malt-O-Meal® cereal, and Peter Pan® peanut butter, as well as Nutrish®, Kibbles ‘n Bits® and 9Lives® dog and cat food. As a company committed to high standards of quality and to our values, we are driven by one idea: To make lives better by making delicious food accessible for all. For more information about our brands, visit www.postconsumerbrands.com and follow us on LinkedIn and Facebook for the latest news.

Brand

Post Consumer Brands recently acquired several iconic pet food brands, venturing into a new market while remaining true to our purpose to provide delicious and accessible food that our consumers love. We’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio, and right now, we’re growing and need passionate, driven individuals with diverse perspectives to help us reach greater heights. That’s where you come in. Join a team where your voice is not only heard but valued. Make a real impact on brands enjoyed by millions of people and their pets.

At Post Consumer Brands, we take pride in our longstanding legacy of making one of every five breakfast cereals families eat daily. Today, we’re just as focused on our future as we expand our grocery business with different shelf-stable foods, including snacks and peanut butter. We are committed to providing accessible and delicious food for families, and we’re always searching the center store for the next exciting product to add to our portfolio. As we soar to new heights, we need creative, determined individuals from all walks of life to join our team, where your unique perspective and ideas are acknowledged and valued. Be a part of a company that empowers you to make a difference that’s evident on grocery store shelves and families’ tables across North America.

Location Description

Post Consumer Brands in Jonesboro, Ark. is home to more than 200 team members. Jonesboro may be a smaller town, but it has a strong performing arts scene, multiple schools, and a diverse geography with sports and outdoor recreation opportunities for everyone. The Post Jonesboro team supports the community through food pantry volunteering and an annual toy drive during the holiday season.

Responsibilities

Our Jonesboro location is seeking a high caliber, motivated, self-driven scientist to join our Quality & Food Safety team. This role will be supporting the quality and food safety of some of the best-selling cereals in the country! Come join us in making lives better by making delicious food accessible for all!

Perks of Being a Team Member

+ FREE take-home cereal for every shift worked

+ Positive culture sustained through committed team members who strive for excellence

+ Tuition reimbursement available

+ Annual performance bonus

+ Generous paid-time off (PTO) plans including paid holidays

+ 401k participation with 6% dollar-for-dollar match

+ Wellness program with quarterly cash payout

+ Competitive medical, dental, and vision benefits

+ Company-paid life insurance

+ Company-paid and electable leave programs

+ PPE provided or reimbursed by the company

+ Uniform provided and cleaned by the company

OVERVIEW** **:

Provide technical and strategic quality and food safety support to Operations, Engineering/Maintenance, and Product Development with an emphasis on continuous improvement, consumer/customer requirements, and continuous product quality. Support, implement, and maintain food safety practices as required through SQF. Responsible for completing job duties in a manner that supports all plant safety, food safety, quality, and environmental practices.

Responsibilities and Accountabilities** **:

+ Provide daily business support by attending and reporting out (where appropriate) business, project, test lot meetings.

+ Coordinate, perform, and write work instructions as requested.

+ Conduct consumer and customer complaint investigations and report findings to consumer affairs group.

+ Work with Plant Quality and Food Safety Manager to manage Food Safety Plan (FSP) process, including reviewing existing plans, modifying plans for new products/processes, and verifying current plans.

+ Develop and conduct Quality and Food Safety function training for assigned Plants.

+ Support the Quality and Food Safety Manager in planning plant quality systems, procedures and methodologies to meet internal and external customer expectations.

+ Interact with ingredient vendors by providing information and insight into non-compliant ingredient occurrences to track costs and assist in corrective action procedures.

+ Work cross-functionally when problems arise to investigate and understand root cause and facilitate the holding/sampling and disposition of the product.

+ Analyze noncompliance trends for assigned plants and develop improvement plans in conjunction with Quality Assurance and Food Safety Manager and Operations Management.

+ Collaborate with the Quality and Food Safety Manager for support of all audit activities, including preparation, support during the audit(s), and potential follow-up.

+ Provide support to Operations for prerequisite program development outlined in the Food Safety Plan.

+ Support through coordination of cleaning and sanitation events, ensuring compliance in practice and cross-functional continuous improvement.

+ Serve as back-up to Quality and Food Safety Manager.

+ Back-up other positions in the department as needed.

**Schedule:** This is a day shift position and occasional after hours/weekend work may be required.

Qualifications

Job Requirements

**Education** :

+ Four-year college degree in Food Science, Biological Sciences, Chemical Sciences, or other related field of study strongly preferred.

+ Preventative Controls Qualified Individual (PCQI), HACCP, Food Defense, and SQF Certification preferred.

Experience:

Minimum of 3 years food product experience required preferably as a QA Technician or Quality Supervisor

Other Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

+ Excellent organizational and problem solving skills

+ Ability to work with a PC (ie Microsoft Suite) and have demonstrated math/statistical computation skills

+ Knowledge of SPC

+ Ability to work safely with chemicals, as well as, in and around equipment

+ Ability to compile, analyze and present collected data in summary form as well as being capable of performing a variety of tests.

+ Ability to communicate technical, scientific, and regulatory information, both written and verbally.

+ Interpersonal and presentation skills, including the ability to make presentations, facilitate meetings, probe for root cause, and provide training to various groups within the organization

+ Knowledge of CI problem solving tools.

Post Holdings provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, status as a covered veteran and any other category protected under applicable federal, state, provincial and local laws.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)