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Quality Lead

Location: Phillips, Nebraska, USA


Reference: 18017375

Description
 
What You Will Do:

Provide direct supervision and management of product quality, and quality related activities, as it relates to seed production, conditioning, treating and packaging.  Site stewardship responsibilities for all quality assurance and quality control documents associated with the companies Quality Business Systems.  Additional duties may include ISO 9001 auditing, site non-conformance and request for variance administration, and internal auditing duties. Responsible for in process Quality Control testing/inspection and serving as a quality ambassador to support global quality initiatives.  Assist with operational and capital budgets, and management of plant personnel as assigned by Site Manager.

Foster an operational culture founded on HSE, Quality, and continuous process improvement. Active leadership in the Goal Zero initiative.

Who You Are:
  • Assist Site Manager as required in all areas of operations
  • Coordinate, direct, and suggest improvements to the field inspection program.  Work with field team to ensure product quality meets standards
  • Manage process simulation for conditioning requirements – may include direct supervision, hiring of staff, data entry, sizing recommendations and analysis
  • Develop and maintain a product quality inspection program to ensure bulk storage and conditioning standard requirements are being met
  • Develop and maintain a product quality inspection program to ensure packaged quality and outbound shipments meet customer specifications – includes seed appearance and damage checks, as well as packaging requirements
  • Assist in the development, implementation, and monitoring of quality systems, processes, and programs for the site operations
  • Support Site safety and quality initiatives
  • SAP data entry and reporting as needed
  • Oversee sampling requirements for new crop, returns and carry-over seed to meet testing requirements
  • Ensure Regulatory requirements are met for any USDA regulated crops, from field through shipment 
  • Direct point of contact for all site-based and other business stakeholder quality related issues 
  • Oversees personnel, including 3rd party labor, for all quality related processes
  • Coordinate and lead root cause analysis for all site related customer complaints and internal deviations from company standards
  • Owner for site related request for variance and non-conformity processes
  • Foster an operational culture founded on adherence to all applicable HSE and other corporate policies, procedures and guidelines. Active leadership around Syngenta’s Goal Zero initiative
  • Monitor SAP processes related to quality to ensure data accuracy and integrity
  • Monitor product quality from the field through the distribution process
  • Analyze and report product quality metrics and performance
  • To assist in other areas of the office and/or plant as workload requires
  • May participate in performance reviews of personnel
  • Develop a cross-functional knowledge of field and plant activities and others as assigned by plant management
  • Understanding of seed labeling laws, seed certification laws and interstate shipment regulations
  • Ability to work across cross-functional teams and drive processes
  • Coordinate and lead the distribution/inventory of Green Leaf Genetics corn and soybeans
  • Coordinate the corn inbred LPM to P&S hand off (quality testing/SAP inventory)

Qualifications

You Have:

  • BA/BS diploma strongly preferred or 2-4 years of related experiences
  • Experience in quality related fields, or seed production
  • Must have a valid driver’s license
  • All applicants must be eligible to work it the US
 
You Might Also Have:
  • Ability to work with wide range of disciplines including research, product development, marketing and production
  • Computer literate in Microsoft Suite and SAP functions
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • Leadership, project management and communication skills
  • Ability to develop a highly motivated and successful team
  • Strong detail orientation and ability to execute
  • Decisive: Ability to make timely and well thought out recommendations, supported by proper underlying data and analysis, and swiftly executive/ implement decisions
  • Trusted: Meets all work commitments and follows through in a responsible and reliable manner; professionally and confidentially handles sensitive information
  • Customer-Focused: Timely responds to requests for information and production needs
  • Results-Oriented: Establishes appropriate measures of success
  • Communicative: Ability to create effective and efficient communication tools for all audiences; establishes clear objectives and timelines for work; good listener
  • Team-Oriented: Works well across all Business Units and functions; values input from others; enthusiastic, forward looking team player
  • Innovative: Anticipate production challenges and develop processes for reliable supply
  • Some physical demands of the role include but are not limited to:
    • Ability to lift 50lbs
    • Ability to walk seed production fields in any weather
    • 7-day work weeks during critical time of year
    • Travel by car/pickup during certain periods of year
    • Extensive travel during peak times of hear
    • Capability to be forklift certified
    • Sometimes working in dusty and/or hot conditions
What We Offer:
  • Full Benefit Package (Medical, Dental & Vision) that starts the same day you do
  • 401k plan with company match, Profit Sharing & Retirement Savings Contribution
  • Paid Vacation, 12 Paid Holidays, Maternity and Paternity Leave, Education Assistance, Wellness Programs, Corporate Discounts among others
  • A culture that promotes work/life balance, celebrates diversity and offers numerous family-oriented events throughout the year
Who We Are:

Syngenta is a leading agriculture company dedicated to feeding the world and improving global food security by enabling millions of farmers to make better use of available resources. We are committed to rescuing land from degradation, enhancing biodiversity and revitalizing rural communities. We have 28,000 people in over 90 countries working to transform how crops are grown.

Application

Please click HERE to learn more and to apply online.


Syngenta is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or any other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.

More positions from: Syngenta Seeds Inc. (USA)

Posted from March 17, 2020 until September 13, 2020
SeedQuest reference number: 114861

Applicants must be legally eligible to work in the country where the position is located.
 
 
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