Associate Principal Scientist, Sanitation and Food Safety

Overview

The role resides within the “Food Safety, Sanitation & Sustainability” team of Food Safety Center of Excellence (FSCoE). It supports the design, deployment, and execution of PepsiCo food safety programs, such as sanitation and food safety systems (e.g., food safety plan / HACCP, pathogen environmental monitoring). It also helps resolve sanitation and food safety challenges facing supply chain and R&D.

Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.

Responsibilities

This Associate Principal Scientist role in Food Safety, Sanitation & Sustainability team will :

• Support Pepsico food safety strategy in deployment of the sanitation and food safety programs (e.g., Food Safety Plan, Pathogen Environmental Program, sanitation, allergen program, physical hazards, water reuse, etc.) within North America.
• Provide sanitation and food safety SME support to R&D and supply chain stakeholders for safe, stable and legal production.
• Collaborate across the FSCoE to explore new capabilities which maximize productivity, increase agility, and drive new insights.
• Work with Product Developers and Engineering functions to support the assessment of new production equipment designs, sanitation chemistry and methods, and process validation.
• Ensure accurate documentation of test goals and objectives, test design, and testing procedures.
• Support food safety hazard and contaminant control through existing sanitation and food safety programs.
• Provide support to plants to close regulatory gaps (if any) in a timely fashion to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Assess food safety risks and develop proposals and strategies of executing recommended processes, programs, and procedural improvements to support the mitigation and control of hazards and contaminants, through consultation of existing food safety program and global manuals.
• Conduct horizon scan to identify, test and roll out new technologies in support of food safety initiatives.
• Apply risk assessment to various scenarios to come up with proper strategy to control the risk.
• Ability to travel to field locations up to 50%.

Compensation and Benefits :

Qualifications

EEO Statement

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status.

PepsiCo is an Equal Opportunity Employer : Female / Minority / Disability / Protected Veteran / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity.

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Salary : $85,200 - $142,650