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Danone

Global foods and beverages company

Plant Quality Director - Quality & Food Safety

Quality Engineering +1Posted on Nov 5
Full-timeBoucherville, QC, Canada

About the Job

Requirements

  • A Bachelor’s or master’s degree in food science, food processing, or a related scientific field is required.
  • At least 10 years of progressive QFS or manufacturing operations experience is required.
  • Director-level leadership experience, including management of a diverse team, is required.
  • Strong knowledge of QFS systems and standards, including ISO, FSSC 22000, HACCP, PRPs, GMP, risk management, and statistical process control, is required.
  • Skills in communication, influencing, project management, auditing, change management, and data analysis are required.
  • Demonstrated problem-solving, root-cause analysis, decision-making under pressure, and results orientation are required.
  • Digital fluency with tools such as Power BI, LIMS, SAP, and Veeva is required.
  • The ability to support a 24/7 manufacturing environment and travel approximately 5%–10% of the time is required.
  • Fluency in French and English is required.

Responsibilities

  • Define and deploy the plant Quality and Food Safety strategy in alignment with Danone Global, Americas, and plant business priorities.
  • Serve as the plant QFS authority, escalation point, and crisis-management lead for major quality or food safety incidents.
  • Ensure end-to-end compliance with regulatory requirements, Danone standards, certifications, specifications, product release rules, sanitation, metrology, and preventive maintenance programs.
  • Lead the IWS Quality Pillar, including PDCA, daily management, run-to-target routines, built-in quality, risk assessment, and continuous improvement.
  • Optimize the quality control plan from incoming materials to finished goods, including supplier quality, laboratory services, audits, non-conformities, RCA/CAPA, and process capability.
  • Build a strong quality culture across the plant through iCare, coaching, training, visual management, and employee ownership.
  • Manage the QFS budget, resources, CAPEX/OPEX, and productivity initiatives while protecting quality and food safety integrity.
  • Lead, mobilize, and develop the plant QFS team, building capability, engagement, mobility, and succession.
  • Represent Boucherville in Americas and Global QFS networks and engage internal and external stakeholders on key quality initiatives.
  • Monitor audit performance, certification compliance, consumer complaints, specification conformance, and right-first-time results.
  • Monitor on-time closure of non-conformities, RCA/CAPA effectiveness, and reduction of cost of non-quality.
  • Monitor quality culture, team engagement, IWS standards, and QFS team development and succession.

Desired Qualifications

  • Dairy experience is preferred.

About the Company

Danone

Global foods and beverages company

Danone is a global food and beverage company focused on Essential Dairy & Plant-Based products, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition. It sells brands like Actimel, Activia, Alpro, Evian, Nutricia, and Volvic across more than 120 markets, employing over 100,000 people. Its products aim to support health and sustainability, guided by the One Planet. One Health framework and 2030 goals, with a plan to pursue B Corp certification by 2025. It differentiates itself with a mission-driven approach, the Entreprise à Mission status in France, and strong sustainability commitments across a diversified brand portfolio to bring healthy, sustainable eating to as many people as possible.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Paris, France
Founded
1919

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