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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!
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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 production ready by verifying all required cleaning and sanitization processes, monitors the Cleaning and Sanitation Service to ensure performance is to standard, and supports the execution of the Bowling Green 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:
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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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Assists in the root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and preventive measures for Food Safety nonconformances and all-encompassing documentation
• Responsible for updating the Food Safety KPIs and collaborate 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 Weekend Food Safety activities.
• Assists with the Bowling Green plant HACCP program by reviewing, updating, documenting compliance, and training to the plant.
• Executes quality and food safety training to all plant employees. Monitor and track 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.
• Understand and comply with Hill’s policies, safety standards, Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs) and Food Safety. Identifies and reports Food Safety issues to management.

Basic qualifications include:
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Bachelor’s Degree

• At least 1 year of experience in a manufacturing facility.
• Ability to work any shift including weekends.
• Ability to wear all required Fall Protection Equipment and other PPE.
• Ability to bend, climb, crawl, work in confined spaces, work in hazardous condition spaces, work in extreme weather conditions and use hazardous materials.

Preferred qualifications include:
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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 utilizing 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.
• Working knowledge of statistical software packages preferred.

Please refer the Job description for details