Quality and Food Safety Change Manager
Job Description
About the job
**Job Summary**
At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a **Quality and Food Safety Change Manager** internally called **QFS Plant Quality Change Manager** based in **Dallas, Texas.** The QFS Plant Quality Change Manager partners with Senior Plant Leadership to ensure food quality and safety throughout all Change Management activities—such as new recipes, packaging changes, projects, and process or equipment improvements—that may affect overall QFS performance.
This position works to make certain that procedures, programs ((Statistic Process Control (SPC) and Clean in Place (CIP United)), formulas, manufacturing processes, and equipment used to produce Danone products meet Quality, Food Safety and Regulatory requirements and any changes made are validated according to Danone standards. Serves as the liaison between the QFS organization and cross functional partners—including Production, Engineering, and Maintenance at the plant, as well as R\&I, Marketing, and Operations across the company—to deliver innovation, renovation, and other Change Projects in alignment with Quality and Food Safety standards. This work will sometimes involve novel processing technology and require advanced capabilities in protocol development, experimental design, data analysis and modeling. This position may also participate in internal networks and professional affiliations.
In plants implementing IWS, the PQCM is a member of an IWS pillar and will own at least one system. It is recommended that this role include ownership of the Dan IWS “Change Management” Standard Work Processes (SWP).
**Key Responsibilities**
As a key member of our team, you will play an important role in driving our mission forward. The following responsibilities outline the core expectations and contributions for this position:
* Participate in technical feasibility studies for all projects of the plant
* Conduct Q\&FS risk assessments that integrate ingredients, process and packaging, as well as microbiological and controls validation, CIP, SPC and critical control operational requirements.
* Develop qualification protocols for all plant projects and ensure all necessary resources are engaged, trained, and prepared to execute them effectively.
* Ensure with QFS Assurance Manger all needed capabilities in the plant are implemented through trainings and knowledge enhancement
* Review and approve new product/recipe and changes in existing ones proposed for implementation by central teams in terms of quality and process technology capabilities of the plant.
* Ensures all new Specifications are understood and implemented
* Stay current with all key regulatory and certifying agency guidelines and relevant Danone standards.
* Evaluate situations and documentation related to deviations and product release, support deviation analyses.
* Will be the Plant QFS CIP United SPOC and the Plant QFS SPC SPOC
* Ensure correct data and process parameters in systems (PLM, SAP, MES, etc.) for new or changed recipes.
* Coordinate the scope and quantity of laboratory tests related to recipe and raw material changes.
* Supervise the budget of conducted projects in terms of responsibility (production trials, laboratory tests, etc.).
* Supervise the costs of production trials according to the allocated budget (requesting pricing and settlement of trials, controlling the quantity of raw materials and packaging used for technological trials and controlled production).
* Supervise the efficiency of the first implementation productions, approving recipes and processes after the first three productions.
* Responsible for the effectiveness of the quality documentation system. Ensures relevant documentation is ready for authorities in all serious complaints: hospitalization, media involvement, etc.
* Ensure that all employees are covered by the food safety and quality training program. Including Bamboo \& Veeva management and training.
* Conduct activities aimed at improving material efficiency.
* Analyze recipe and raw material changes in terms of cost optimization \- line efficiency, raw material losses, assortment transitions, and avoid increased complexity.
* Conduct and participate in cost\-saving projects and create initiatives to increase productivity.
* Coordinate and conduct production trials and implementation productions of new recipes and raw materials in the plant.
* Conduct projects and implement recipe and raw material changes in the plant according to applicable plant procedures.
**Physical Demands**
* While performing duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; taste and/or smell, talk and hear.
* Ability to bend \& stoop at waist level as well as bend \& twist neck and head.
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**Job Summary**
At Danone, Manufacturing the best products and supplying them to meet demand is a key driver for our plant teams. We are currently looking to hire a **Quality and Food Safety Change Manager** internally called **QFS Plant Quality Change Manager** based in **Dallas, Texas.** The QFS Plant Quality Change Manager partners with Senior Plant Leadership to ensure food quality and safety throughout all Change Management activities—such as new recipes, packaging changes, projects, and process or equipment improvements—that may affect overall QFS performance.
This position works to make certain that procedures, programs ((Statistic Process Control (SPC) and Clean in Place (CIP United)), formulas, manufacturing processes, and equipment used to produce Danone products meet Quality, Food Safety and Regulatory requirements and any changes made are validated according to Danone standards. Serves as the liaison between the QFS organization and cross functional partners—including Production, Engineering, and Maintenance at the plant, as well as R\&I, Marketing, and Operations across the company—to deliver innovation, renovation, and other Change Projects in alignment with Quality and Food Safety standards. This work will sometimes involve novel processing technology and require advanced capabilities in protocol development, experimental design, data analysis and modeling. This position may also participate in internal networks and professional affiliations.
In plants implementing IWS, the PQCM is a member of an IWS pillar and will own at least one system. It is recommended that this role include ownership of the Dan IWS “Change Management” Standard Work Processes (SWP).
**Key Responsibilities**
As a key member of our team, you will play an important role in driving our mission forward. The following responsibilities outline the core expectations and contributions for this position:
* Participate in technical feasibility studies for all projects of the plant
* Conduct Q\&FS risk assessments that integrate ingredients, process and packaging, as well as microbiological and controls validation, CIP, SPC and critical control operational requirements.
* Develop qualification protocols for all plant projects and ensure all necessary resources are engaged, trained, and prepared to execute them effectively.
* Ensure with QFS Assurance Manger all needed capabilities in the plant are implemented through trainings and knowledge enhancement
* Review and approve new product/recipe and changes in existing ones proposed for implementation by central teams in terms of quality and process technology capabilities of the plant.
* Ensures all new Specifications are understood and implemented
* Stay current with all key regulatory and certifying agency guidelines and relevant Danone standards.
* Evaluate situations and documentation related to deviations and product release, support deviation analyses.
* Will be the Plant QFS CIP United SPOC and the Plant QFS SPC SPOC
* Ensure correct data and process parameters in systems (PLM, SAP, MES, etc.) for new or changed recipes.
* Coordinate the scope and quantity of laboratory tests related to recipe and raw material changes.
* Supervise the budget of conducted projects in terms of responsibility (production trials, laboratory tests, etc.).
* Supervise the costs of production trials according to the allocated budget (requesting pricing and settlement of trials, controlling the quantity of raw materials and packaging used for technological trials and controlled production).
* Supervise the efficiency of the first implementation productions, approving recipes and processes after the first three productions.
* Responsible for the effectiveness of the quality documentation system. Ensures relevant documentation is ready for authorities in all serious complaints: hospitalization, media involvement, etc.
* Ensure that all employees are covered by the food safety and quality training program. Including Bamboo \& Veeva management and training.
* Conduct activities aimed at improving material efficiency.
* Analyze recipe and raw material changes in terms of cost optimization \- line efficiency, raw material losses, assortment transitions, and avoid increased complexity.
* Conduct and participate in cost\-saving projects and create initiatives to increase productivity.
* Coordinate and conduct production trials and implementation productions of new recipes and raw materials in the plant.
* Conduct projects and implement recipe and raw material changes in the plant according to applicable plant procedures.
**Physical Demands**
* While performing duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; reach with hands and arms; stoop; kneel; crouch; crawl; taste and/or smell, talk and hear.
* Ability to bend \& stoop at waist level as well as bend \& twist neck and head.
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Posted: 2026-03-22