Food Safety Engineer Lead

**JOB SCOPE**

**Role : Food Safety Engineer Lead**
- Serve as technical lead for global expansion projects and New Product Development projects 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 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.

**JOB REQUIREMENTS**:

- Bachelors Degree in Engineering, Science
- A minimum of 6 years or more years 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.

**ABOUT THE CLIENT**:
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 113,000 colleagues serve people in more than 160 countries.