Position Snapshot

Location: Jurong, Singapore

Company: Nestle R&D Center, Singapore

Type of contract: Permanent contract

Position Summary 

Joining Nestlé means you are joining the largest Food and Beverage Company in the world.  At our very core, we are a human environment – passionate people driven by the purpose of enhancing the quality of life and contributing to a healthier future.  A Nestle career empowers you to make an impact locally and globally, as you are provided with the opportunity to make a mark and stand out, as long as you seek it. With Nestle, you are enabled and encouraged to grow not only as professionals, but also as people. 

As a Quality Specialist based in Nestlé R&D Center, he/she is to support in specific areas of expertise (e.g. food safety, HACCP, auditing, hygiene, pest control, chemical contaminants, microbiology food safety, sensory, thermal processing, statistical process control, net content management etc.)

A Day in the Life of a Quality Specialist

People and know-how: 
Promote quality awareness across the company. Contribute to competence development of quality mindset across the organisation.

System design: 
Define and update the specific quality procedures, instruction and tools which are directly related to their area of concern.

Quality mastership: 
- Supports the Nestlé Continuous Excellence program in the quest for zero defect, including root cause analysis after incidents (or near misses) and DMAIC.
- Supports activities to achieve compliance with the Nestlé Quality Management System requirements and other applicable instructions and standards.
- Deliver training for their specific areas of expertise.
- Support in HACCP study, PFSA, Cleaning Validation, GMP inspections.
- NMS audits, Internal audits

Quality auditing and verification: 
In their specific area of expertise, assess that the Nestlé Quality Management System is in place, and is obtaining expected results in a given operating unit.

What will make you successful

Academic Experience:

- University graduate or equivalent (preferred food science / food technology / chemical engineering related)

Operational Experience:

Demonstrated competence in their specific field to support business requirements:

- Team member in a factory: Quality, Production Support, Application Group, or,
- Team member in the quality department of the Market, NPTC/R&D, Centre, NRC, NQACs

Business Experience:

Experience in successfully implementing quality assurance programs:

- 3 - 5 years of experince in quality assurance in food industry

- Participating in project teams 
- Leading part of a change effort
- Participating in audit teams and/or improvement projects with more senior staff members
- Establishing networks of peers, in markets or factories