Food Safety Specialist

Position Snapshot

Location: Nestlé Research, Lausanne, Switzerland
Unit: Scientific & Technical Operations
Company: Société des Produits Nestlé S.A.
Act. Rate: Full-Time
Type of contract: Permanent contract

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What we offer at Nestlé

Genuine opportunities for career and personal development
Modern “smart office” locations providing agile & collaborative workspaces
Dynamic international working environment
Attractive additional benefits

Position Summary

Nestlé Research is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, employs approximately 1000 people and is comprised of five Nestlé Institutes: Food Sciences, Health Sciences, Food Safety & Analytical Sciences, Packaging Sciences, and Agricultural Sciences. For an overview of our research activities follow this link or read more about Nestlé Research at our website. Please follow us on Nestlé R&D on LinkedIn.

We are looking for a Food Safety Specialist, to ensure that products and R&D prototypes developed at Nestlé Research are safe by design and to support Nestle Research food safety management system.

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and international working environment with many opportunities across different companies, functions, and regions. Don’t miss the opportunity to join us and work with different teams in an agile and diverse context.

A Day in the Life of a Food Safety Specialist

• Provide support to projects (Science and Technology, Accelerator, Clinical trials), ensuring Quality and Food Safety by Design and timely delivery of key information/documents
• Identify, report, manage/mitigate, escalate food safety or quality risks and issues
• Perform root cause analysis, in case of non-conformities
• Contribute to the effectiveness of the food safety management system (e.g. by performing internal audits)
• Provide training on quality and food safety topics to project managers, project team members and site personnel as per needed
• Promote a food safety mindset to strengthen the robustness of the innovation/renovation process

What will make you successful

• 3-5 years’ experience in an R&D or factory environment
• Applied science university graduate or equivalent (preferred chemistry, biology, food science or technology)
• Demonstrated expertise and practical experience in HACCP
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams in a research context
• Fluent in English, French is a plus

At Nestlé, we want to help shape a better and healthier world, inspire people to live healthier lives and deliver impact at a scale and pace that makes a difference. We do this by fostering a diverse, friendly, supportive, and collaborative environment, that creates positive disruption, embraces innovation, and empowers people and teams to win.
We aim to hire friendly, respectful, inspiring people who care about the people’s lives that we touch every single day.
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