What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Principal Food Safety Engineer - Process Authority Team position at Mediabistro?
Overview
This position resides within the Food Safety Center of Excellence organization of R&D located in Valhalla, NY. The incumbent will provide leadership to ensure that processing conditions meet commercial sterility to deliver food safety and quality requirements for Low and High Acid Aseptic Foods and Beverages. They will ensure that PepsiCo delivers compliance while delivering innovation needs with agility, leveraging a risk-based approach. This role will engage in critical collaborations with quality assurance, quality control, product development, process engineering, and commercialization teams.
Responsibilities
- Develop and understand the concepts of thermal processing and bacterial kinetics to various food and beverage products to support regional R&D initiatives.
- Understand key manufacturing platforms and identify process control associated with each.
- Support the implementation of robust procedures to ensure the correct design, development, and approval of thermal and non-thermal processes to deliver microbiological control in line with PepsiCo and local regulatory requirements across all categories and technologies, taking into account industry best practice.
- Maintain the TPA reference library of process parameters required to meet PepsiCo Food Safety and Quality standards across all categories and technologies.
- Support the thermal process aspects of the validation of new equipment, processes, products, and packaging in conjunction with key stakeholders, R&D, and Technical Services, keeping aware of and up to date with industry technical developments.
- Subject matter expertise driving flawless innovation and in support of product stability and stability issue resolution.
- Support the Commercialization, Qualification, and Verification (CQV) of new products, processes, and packages.
- Validation of existing processes to ensure they are capable of delivering the required level of microbiological product integrity.
- Review and issue scheduled processes for low acid aseptic products, file processes with FDA, and review process deviations and provide product disposition.
- Support Root Cause Analysis and Corrective Action and Preventive Action items to close Thermal Process related gaps.
- People Capability Build programs across our global organization – aseptic university trainings.
- 25-50% travel required.
Compensation & Benefits
Qualifications
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Salary : $85,200 - $142,650