Food Safety Specialist

**Further your career at Ball, a world leader in manufacturing sustainable aluminum packaging.
Achieve extraordinary things when you join our team, and make a difference in your professional development, the community, and around the globe
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**Ball is thrilled to receive Newsweek's 2023 Top 100 Global Most Loved Workplace award
As a sustainable product leader, we have over 16,000 global team members.
From endlessly recyclable aluminum cans, and cups, to aerosol bottles, our goal is to contribute to a better community, society, and world.
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**Position overview**:
As Food Safety Specialist you're a key member of the Global Quality Team.
You will contribute to the success of Ball by supporting development, training, execution, implementation, and compliance auditing of the Corporate Quality and Food Safety Management Program complaint to FSSC 22000 including site certification coordination with Registrar Bureau Veritas
**Key responsibilities include**:
- Participate in the development and implementation of the Corporate Quality and Food Safety Management Program in region/plants in alignment with peer regions and global with standardization through BOE.
- Develop and maintain QFSMS documentation compliant to applicable standards, customer requirements, and internal practices and in alignment with the regulatory team.
- Provide support to site, region, and global in association with external 3rd party audits of QFSMS including tracking of findings, cross seeding corrective actions, and standardizing through the BOE routine.
- Support plants, quality, and commercial with standardization associated with inquiries from customers relative to Quality and Food Safety approvals and documentation including providing compliance evidence.
- When possible establish standardized declarations/statements which demonstrate compliance for the region/global and maintain on "The Source" for customer access.
When individual customer requests are made provide information with support of commercial/quality in alignment with the requisite standards.
- Participate in development of annual QFSMS Goals and Objectives in alignment with the global and region strategy providing data/input to the sites and corporate management review.
- Lead the Corporate QFSMS review for the region and participate in the global review.
- Develop, Improve, Maintain, and Execute the Food Safety and Quality Culture plan to include annual employee survey and recognition programs to include site, region, and global awards.
Perform analysis of survey results for action planning in support of the plants and region with global connectivity
- Mentor site Food Safety Team members in GMP, HACCP, Food Fraud, and Food Defense practice.
- Provide QFSMS training to sites, region, corporate, and global personnel in alignment with peer regions.
- Develop, maintain, and improve QFSMS (CBT) training for training system assignment and tracking in partnership with training development and execution stakeholders.
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**What are we looking for?
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- Bachelor Degree in Related field or Business
- At least 3 years of experience of working in quality or quality related environment with food safety management.
- Demonstrated skill in food safety managment, program development, execution, and auditing.
- Knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma principles.
- Demonstrated success in global projects or initiatives.
- Working knowledge of standards: FSSC 22000; ISO 9001; 14001 and 45001.
- Fluency in written and spoken English.
When you join Ball you belong to a team of over 16,000 members worldwide.
Our products range from infinitely recyclable aluminum cans, cups to aerosol bottles that enable our customers to contribute to a better world.
Each of us has a deep commitment to diversity and inclusion which is the foundation of our culture of belonging.
Everyone at Ball is making a difference by doing what we love.
Because what we create may change, but what we will always make is a difference.
Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.
No agencies please.
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