About This Role
This QA Engineer role at Lamb Weston in Kruiningen focuses on improving and maintaining the quality management system for food products consumed globally. The position involves ensuring compliance with quality, food safety, legal, and customer standards, acting as a crucial link between Quality Assurance and production.
Responsibilities
- Manage, maintain, and continuously improve the quality management system, including ISO and HACCP
- Identify developments in laws and regulations, certification, food safety, and customer standards, and translate them into the organization
- Prepare, organize, and conduct internal audits and guide external audits
- Follow up on and implement improvements from audits and ensure proper embedding within the organization
- Keep procedures, work instructions, reports, and other QA documentation up-to-date
- Keep knowledge about food safety up-to-date and share it, including within the HACCP team and through training
- Investigate and handle complaints about product and process quality, in collaboration with various departments
- Analyze complaints and customer feedback and translate insights into concrete improvements
- Monitor the quality of laboratory research and ensure periodic calibration of equipment
- Support chemical and bacteriological research and provide relevant QA reports and administrations
- Act as key user for QA-related applications within SAP, including traceability
- Train and guide employees in the QA field
- Take over a number of operational responsibilities in the absence of the QA Manager and ensure the continuity of QA activities
Requirements
- Completed HBO education, preferably in Food Technology, Food Science, Quality Management, or similar
- Experience with Quality Assurance within the food industry or a comparable production environment
- Knowledge of quality management systems, HACCP, audits, and relevant laws and regulations
- Used to conducting independent research and initiating improvements
- Able to collaborate well with various stakeholders and engage people in changes
- Strong communication skills and enjoy sharing knowledge and training colleagues
- Good command of Dutch and English
Nice to have:
- Experience with SAP and/or QA-related systems
Benefits
- Challenging QA role with much responsibility and room for own initiative
- International working environment within an organization that is constantly evolving
- Opportunity to directly contribute to improvements in quality, food safety, and processes
- Collaboration with various disciplines and stakeholders within the plant and beyond
- Room for personal and professional development
About the Company
Lamb Weston sees opportunities in potatoes and continuously seeks ways to improve quality, make processes smarter, and enhance safety.
