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Danone

Global foods and beverages company

Quality & Food Safety Process Technology Director

Validation, Compliance & Quality SystemsConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHoofddorp, NetherlandsNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • MSc or PhD in Food, Process, or Chemical Engineering, or equivalent.
  • 12–15+ years of experience in thermal and/or aseptic processing, including multi-site or global governance exposure.
  • Demonstrated expertise in thermal or aseptic processing, hygienic design, sanitation validation, EM, shelf-life modeling, and packaging barrier/integrity.
  • Strong root cause analysis and corrective and preventive action leadership.
  • Data-driven decision-making capability and familiarity with digital tools and automation.
  • Cross-functional influence and stakeholder management capability.
  • Coaching and capability-building experience.
  • Incident and crisis leadership and resilience.

Responsibilities

  • Establish and drive quality and food safety governance and compliance in manufacturing environments across the network to ensure the ongoing safety and quality of products.
  • Provide global leadership and governance for aseptic, extended shelf life, and thermal processing technologies, ensuring safe, compliant, validated, and high-performing operations while enabling innovation, capacity expansion, and reliable start-ups.
  • Drive capability, digitalization, and continuous improvement to prevent incidents, protect consumers, and support growth.
  • Maintain global technology and validation strategy for aseptic, extended shelf life, thermal processes, and filling technologies.
  • Steward global standards for aseptic processing, UHT and ESL, pasteurization, sterilization, hygienic design, clean-in-place and sanitize-in-place expectations, and filling integrity.
  • Govern validation and revalidation frameworks, including protocols, challenge-testing principles, acceptance criteria, and triggers for revalidation.
  • Provide technical governance and expertise for major capital expenditure and start-up excellence, including advanced technology, equipment design criteria, commissioning, and performance qualification strategy.
  • Provide technical leadership in major incidents involving sterility assurance, thermal control deviations, or filling failures.
  • Sponsor root cause analyses and ensure corrective actions are robust, verified, and shared globally.
  • Sponsor the global capability academy for aseptic, extended shelf life, thermal processing, and filling.
  • Drive technical communities of practice and coach experts and site teams.
  • Support capital expenditure projects, start-ups, and new-line commissioning.
  • Reduce severe process-related food safety incidents.
  • Develop processing technology academies and experts.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with Lean/Six Sigma, statistical process control, and validation methodologies.

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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