Job Description:

WHAT IS THE ROLE OF FOOD SAFETY & QUALITY AT GENERAL MILLS?

Food Safety & Quality (FSQ) Associates lead programs and provide technical expertise to ensure the safety, regulatory compliance, and quality of General Mills food.

KEY FSQ RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead safety and quality strategy and act to address gaps and effectively mitigate risk.
• Collaborate with internal business partners in Research & Development (R&D), Operations, Engineering and Maintenance to validate manufacturing controls and system capability to meet consumer and specification requirements.
• Manage issues with non-confirming product including risk assessment, data driven decision making and eliminate future occurrences through root cause analysis.
• Protect General Mills’ brands and engender consumer trust by ensuring the manufacturing of safe, quality food.
• Gain exposure to building external relationships with regulatory, industry and audit agencies in support of global manufacturing.
• Learning from and Leading Operators, Technicians and Mechanics to grow your coaching, team building, and people-development skill set.

Quality Associates (QA) will experience an 18–24-month hands-on, front-line, factory-based rotational program that provides in-role experiences to build expertise in Food Safety and Quality, manufacturing, and people leadership. The QA will be a key team player on their assigned system(s), with no two days the same within the manufacturing facility. The variety of tasks include:

• Evaluate and implement food safety and quality systems improvements
• Collect, analyze, and interpret data to make quality driven process capability improvements
• Assess risk using problem solving technique