Product Data Management Quality Specialist Tech Center (Caldwell, ID)

This role develops maintains and resolves specification quality issues for specialty products for food service retail and customer specific (national accounts key accounts industrial etc.) in the PDM and SAP systems. They work directly with production facilities co-packers suppliers food scientists and technicians sales & marketing regulatory and customers on quality related matters. This position also maintains and distributes factory documentation through sales legal and customer portals.

This position is based in Caldwell Idaho. Relocation assistance is not available for this role.

• Develop modify and maintain specialty product and purchased products (incoming ingredients) specifications and requested documents by working directly with QA managers supplier quality manager food scientists purchasing packaging production facilities (including co-packer and joint ventures) sales and marketing to ensure the factories have the necessary information to produce quality products.
• Ensure specifications are agreed upon with suppliers customers and factories.
• Work directly with Regulatory and QA Manager on potential labeling issues.
• Work directly with packaging and purchasing to ensure that specifications are managed in a timely manner so necessary packaging and ingredients can be ordered and shipped.
• Maintain quality documents in SharePoint including supplier specifications GFSI certificates factory flow diagrams letters of guarantee Food Safety and Quality policies.
• Maintain customer information portal for Simplot in SharePoint
• Coordinate specifications with co-packers as needed.
• Maintain connection to customer portals including but not limited to FoodLogic and TraceGains with all required documentation being uploaded as needed.
• Create and maintain the specification system by providing feedback on ideas for improvement making system changes to accommodate our ever-changing environment.
• Provide training on quality systems.
• Assist in product cuttings for our sales and marketing groups broker training school specialist training product and competitive cuttings customer cuttings and provide back-up assistance for quality complaints as needed.
• Coordinate with Sales and Legal to ensure non-disclosure agreements are signed when providing sensitive factory information and meet frequently with all stakeholders to include Research and Development Sales Marketing QA Food Safety and PLM to ensure all teams are aligned. Changes are frequent and attention to detail and organizational ability is imperative.
• Stay up to date on food safety and labeling requirements to ensure factories are in compliance with sales purchasing and export demands.
• Develop specifications for new factories throughout the Global Supply Chain

Bachelors Degree (B.A. or B.S.) from 4-year college or university required.

• HACCP certification
• Internal Food Safety Auditor
• FSPCA Preventive controls for Human Food

• An understanding of processing technology quality assurance systems and statistical methods.
• An understanding of quality assurance systems food safety FDA compliance and GMPs and have experience working with customers to identify their needs and expectations while balancing this with plant capabilities.
• The ability to understand specifications and product applications is essential.
• The demonstrated ability to interface with all functional departments is critical.
• Must demonstrate a high level of tenacity and flexibility in solving problems and implementing solutions.
• Must be able to work effectively under pressure without direct supervision and handle multiple priorities.
• Detailed knowledge of PLM/PDM and ability to learn upcoming SAP.
• Knowledge of SharePoint Word Excel Visio PowerPoint.