Quality Manager

**Mission**:
For our Andenne & Saint-Vith’s Puratos Site we are looking for a Quality Manager.

Establish, maintain and propagate a food safety & quality culture in accordance with Puratos Group standards and policies. Your aim is to develop a QA & QC politic specific to the needs of the sites with high quality standards. You’re responsible for all operational performances of your department and implement the Opex program.

**Key tasks**
- You drive the implementation of GMP, HACCP, Quality certification, Customer audits, Puratos Standards
- You are responsible of Introduction of New Products, Raw Materials, Packaging Materials in collaboration with the Business Unit/R&D/Engineering/Operations
- You implement Puratos Quality Standars (ref Golden Unicorn). You manage customer, certification &authority audits
- You ensure the Site Quality Control (organization & KPI’s, new QC analyses techniques )
- You manage, coach and train the QA &QC Team members ans you create a good working environment. You also ensure training & refreshment training in their specific domains.
- You contribute to the optimization of Puratos Andenne operational procedures by active participation to site monthly meetings, quality meeting, task forces and other cross functional meetings
- You manage and communicate towards Puratos organization and customers Food Safety or Food Quality incidents, recall or crisis together with the Andenne management team (BU/Operation)
- You ensure the food safety and legality of the products based on the codex Alimentarius and relevant regulations. You’re responsible for full compliance of your department to all applicable legal regulations and international food safety standards
- You collaborate with other departments (Production, Engineering, Planning/Supply Chain, Maintenance, Safety, HR, R&D, BU,) in order to pull in the same direction
- You manage OPEX & CAPEX for QA/QC department
- You provide leadership in proper customer interactions and communications to the local organization.

**Profile** **?**
- Master degree, preferably in Food, Chemical or Biochemical Engineering
- You have 10-15 years of experience as Quality Manager in a manufacturing environment (food or pharma sector).
- Additional training : Internal auditor, supplier audit, HACCP
- You are fluent in French and English. Dutch is an asset.
- You have a good knowledge of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook). SAP knowledge is an asset.
- You enjoy working in an environment that gives you full responsibility and encourages collaboration & continuous improvement.

**Why would you join Puratos**?**

You will join a Belgian & stable family business that has become an international market leader where passion for innovation, team spirit and continuous improvement are part of our main priorities.

After several trainings on our products and on our quality processes, you will be autonomous in your job and will participate in numerous site development projects, in a very dynamic context linked to significant growth both in terms of volume, number of products and team size.

Your salary package is complete and includes many benefits as hospitalization insurance, group insurance, dental insurance, company car and meal vouchers.

Discover Puratos Saint-Vith’s Magic:
**Are you looking for the right recipe for your career **?**

The secrets behind Puratos’ global success and consistent growth are taste and quality. We would like to welcome you within our enthusiastic, committed and passionate team of more than 8800 employees. We are an international player and, what is more, a Belgian family business. Our people make the difference every single day. How? By developing, producing and distributing a unique and high-quality range of ingredients for bakers, pastry-chefs and chocolatiers, since 1919.

A century later, our products and services are available in more than 100 countries around the world. Our passion for innovation, closeness to our customers, and their customers, as well as our core values form the basis of our passion to improve.

Working at Puratos is choosing a Top Employer in Belgium.

That's what makes working at Puratos so magical

Shall we meet soon?