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The Senior Specialist - Factory Hygienist is responsible for ensuring food safety and hygiene within the factory, providing leadership and support to achieve business objectives. This role involves the implementation and execution of the Factory Industrial Hygiene program, ensuring compliance with Nestlé corporate principles and regulatory standards, with a focus on cleaning and disinfection, integrated pest management, and allergen management systems. The specialist will provide operational technical support for continuous improvement in industrial hygiene and food safety across manufacturing processes. Additionally, they will lead the identification of preventive and corrective actions for hygiene-related issues through data analysis and trending, and serve as the primary contact for third-party hygiene technical resource representatives, ensuring accountability to contractual obligations.

Responsibilities

Assure Food Safety and Compliance 

• Ensure adherence to all Company principles and policies as well as local laws and regulations. Ensure compliance to food safety, hygiene and regulatory requirements (national and international)
• Responsible to ensure hygiene related elements of the factory food safety management systems are implemented and maintained
• Ensure adherence to good hygienic practices at the factory
• New project support and guidance, particularly adherance to hygeinic design principles
• Support problem solving and solution development relating to non-conformances with regard to specific food safety areas

Strive for Zero Defect & No Waste 

• Support the quality failures analysis and initiatives to eliminate the defects related to food safety and hygiene performance
• Promote sharing of best practices across the organization
• Liaise with other functions to drive continuous improvement
• Support water savings environmental projects through manual and CIP sanitation initiatives

Ensure Consistency 

• Ensure mitigation of food safety and quality issues through interaction with AGs
• Ensure validation of hygiene related programs where appropriate to facilitate successful system design
• Support the correct utilization of problem solving tools to drive root cause analysis, corrective actions and continuous improvement

Ensure development of competencies in Quality and Food Safety 

• Promote food safety awareness across the factory
• Develop food safety and quality training at factory floor level, as well as visitor and contractor; hygiene training
• Participate and actively engage to the Nestlé expert networks in hygiene and food safety
• Ensure development of people through coaching and training
• Convey corporate culture and management principles at all levels
• Foster a healthy employee relations climate

Requirements & Minimum Education

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent (preferred microbiology, life science-related studies, industrial hygiene)
• 3-5 years food manufacturing experience

Skills

• Member of HACCP or Food Safety team;
• Member of CIP or specialized sanitation team;
• Participation in hygieic design evaluations;
• Demonstrated capability to influence stakeholders;
• Proven track record in delivering results by working with cross-functional teams and different initiatives;
• Capable of developing and delivering training to both technical and non-technical personnel;
• Coaching and problem solving;
• Strong verbal and written communication skills

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