Food Safety Engineer Sanitation

Abbott is a global healthcare leader that helps people live more fully at all stages of life. Our portfolio of life-changing technologies spans the spectrum of healthcare, with leading businesses and products in diagnostics, medical devices, nutritionals and branded generic medicines. Our 114,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.

 Food Safety Engineer Sanitation (Quality Assurance)

About Abbott

Abbott is a global healthcare leader, creating breakthrough science to improve peopleâs health. Weâre always looking towards the future, anticipating changes in medical science and technology.

Our nutrition business develops science-based nutrition products for people of all ages, from helping babies and children grow, to keeping adult bodies strong and active. Millions of people around the world count on our leading brands â including Similac®, PediaSure®, Pedialyte®, Ensure®, and Glucerna®â to help get the nutrients they need to live their healthiest life.

Working at Abbott

At Abbott, you can do work that matters, grow, and learn, care for yourself and family, be your true self and live a full life. Youâll also have access to:

• Training and career development, with onboarding programs for new employees and tuition assistance
• Financial security through competitive compensation, incentives and retirement plans
• Health care and well-being programs including medical, dental, vision, wellness and occupational health programs, Medical Benefits start day 1
• Vacation â 3 weeks accrued vacation (1st yr. is prorated) + vacation buy program + 3 personal days + 10 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement savings with a generous company match of 5%
• Tuition reimbursement, the Freedom 2 Save student debt program and FreeU education benefit - an affordable and convenient path to getting a bachelorâs degree.
• A company recognized as a great place to work in dozens of countries around the world and named one of the most admired companies in the world by Fortune.
• A company that is recognized as one of the best big companies to work for as well as a best place to work for diversity, working mothers, female executives, and scientists.
• The stability of a company with a record of strong financial performance and history of being actively involved in local communities

The Opportunity

This position works out of our Columbus, OH location in the Nutrition Division.

The Food Safety Engineering group at Abbott Nutrition is accountable for providing trusted Food Safety expertise and continuous improvement programs that ensure Abbott Nutrition provides safe, high-quality products to our consumers each and every day. The Food Safety Engineering team is responsible for reducing food safety risks by providing technical support while governing and optimizing policies to ensure Abbott Nutrition effectively produces safe, high-quality products.

The Project Leader in Global Food Safety has the broad objective of reducing food safety risk in the manufacture and distribution for all products in the Abbott Nutrition portfolio. The successful incumbent will require the ability to appropriately identify, assess and minimize risks in the manufacturing of products to assure the safety, efficacy, regulatory compliance and customer satisfaction while balancing the need to not impact manufacturing efficiency. In order to meet business unit objectives, this Project Leader will be responsible for assuring the appropriate departments are pulled in as needed to deliver on expected results. As the Project Leader for Global Food Safety, the position will need to provide creative risk mitigation strategies for new and existing projects to successfully deliver safe, quality foods in both infant and adult production. Although the Project Leader will work independently, the incumbent will need strong skills to lead cross-functional groups of SMEs and set expectations against key company and department goals while delivering results.

What Youâll Work On

• Serve as technical Subject Matter Expert of the AN Global Sanitation workstream supporting sites, projects and innovative solutions with exposure to Senior Leadership.
• Support global expansion risk assessments that provide assessment of issues, risks, schedule and resource requirements for projects.
• Gain knowledge of global AN network by supporting projects both onsite and remotely
• Create innovative solutions for sanitation food safety designs and assure associated policies comply with applicable Regulations for nutritional products and dietary supplements distributed globally.
• Collaborate with Engineering, Medical Safety, Regulatory Affairs and other areas to establish appropriate preventive control strategies and provide necessary support for implementation.
• Support with internal/external audits and inspections (FDA, ISO22000, Ministry of Health, etc) inquiries associated with food safety.
• Establish and execute policies, procedures, processes and principles to provide robust preventive controls, assure appropriate evaluation during development and provide necessary technical support.
• Collaborate with Division Engineering to design development of innovative preventive controls.
• Serve as technical support to sites to identify issues, investigate and implement corrective and preventative actions.
• Effectively collaborate across all operational, technical and commercial functions at all levels of Division, company owned Plants and Third-Party Manufacturer (TPM) Management to assure product food safety requirements are successfully translated into product/process design and specifications.
• Support the impact of quality related food safety criteria on product and operational costs.
• Assure that product food safety is monitored via manufacturing non-conformances and complaints.
• Provide oversight of changes to plant work orders and TPM standard manufacturing plans, procedures and equipment/processes as they relate to food safety and testing.
• Provide around-the-clock technical support to plants regarding resolution of non-conforming exceptions as they relate to food safety.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE, YOUâLL BRING  

Required:

• Bachelorâs Degree in Engineering, Science
• A minimum of two years or more yearsâ experience in plant operations or support

Preferred:

• Basic knowledge of applicable regulatory standards and Good Manufacturing Practices as required by the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) or other regulatory bodies as appropriate for nutritional and dietary supplement products is needed. The successful incumbent will have demonstrated effective leadership and managerial skills and exhibited sound technical judgment. The individual will have experience managing in an environment with changing priorities and making appropriate risk-based decisions in the face of uncertainty. Requirements include excellent written and oral communication skills and proficiency in organizing and presenting complex technical information to upper levels of management. The position requires a broad understanding of engineering technical aspects of product/process/package design and manufacture and their impact on quality and food safety. The individual must have sufficient technical knowledge and business experience to meaningfully engage and influence technical, commercial and operations functions to ensure food safety design criteria providing necessary safety, efficacy, and regulatory compliance.

MISC: Travel 10-15%

This is an onsite role - not a remote

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* Participants who complete a short wellness assessment qualify for FREE coverage in our HIP PPO medical plan. Free coverage applies in the next calendar year.

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Follow your career aspirations to Abbott for diverse opportunities with a company that can help you build your future and live your best life. Abbott is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to employee diversity.

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The base pay for this position is $95,000.00 â $190,000.00. In specific locations, the pay range may vary from the range posted.