Supply Chain Quality & Food Safety Assoc. Analyst

About the Role

The Supply Chain Quality and Food Safety program provides an opportunity to leverage academic understanding in a real-world, business-driven environment. This role involves managing projects and partnering with leaders from manufacturing plants. The organization is based in Plano, Texas.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in the analysis and development of quality and food safety metrics and business processes, leveraging Tableau or other analytical tools.
• Derive insights from multiple QFS metrics and communicate cross-functionally to assist the team in solving operational issues, and reporting findings to team members and management.
• Administer policies and practices, initiate and implement projects.
• Conduct presentations and formal training programs.
• Improve team communication and engagement.
• Think quickly, creatively, and challenge the team to do the same.
• Support and execute various components and activities spanning the quality and food safety programs, including collecting data, business case product analysis, risk assessments, documenting procedures, developing training, auditing, process improvement, and issues management.
• Be accountable for quality and food safety programs and the achievement of line performance metrics.
• Demonstrate passion for leveraging data and creating meaningful insights using key data analytics techniques, including data/text mining, machine learning, pattern matching, visualization, and statistics.
• Manage multiple projects and competing priorities.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Working knowledge of Python, Tableau, and other reporting tools.
• Experience with statistical modeling and developing reporting tools.

Qualifications

• Currently pursuing a degree in: Food Processing Engineering, Food Science, Microbiology, Agriculture/Biological Engineering, or Chemical Engineering (other related majors will be considered).
• Demonstrated leadership ability.
• Highly motivated self-starters.
• Strong project management skills.
• Ability to work in an unstructured environment with the ability to make trade-off decisions quickly.
• Ability to work on large projects and manage time and effort without constant supervision.
• Ability to give/receive constructive feedback.
• Ability to lead a team-based approach to decision-making.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a results-oriented, challenging environment.
• Effective coaching, facilitation, presentation, and team-building skills.
• Communication skills to work with all levels of the organization, from manufacturing employees to corporate executives.
• Proven problem-solving skills.
• This position is limited to persons with indefinite right to work in the United States.
• Be completing their final year of undergraduate studies.
• Hold a Bachelor’s degree prior to the intended full-time start date.
• Hold a GPA of 2.75 or higher.

Compensation & Benefits

• Expected compensation range for this role (full-time): $75,400 - $88,500.
• Compensation is pre-determined and non-negotiable for campus hires.
• Paid time off in accordance with policy (vacation, holiday, sick, bereavement, parental leave).
• Minimum of 15 paid vacation days.
• 10 paid holidays annually.
• 10 days (80 hours) of paid sick leave.
• Up to three (3) consecutive working days with pay for bereavement leave.
• Up to 6 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Comprehensive benefits package (subject to eligibility):
• Medical, Dental, Vision.
• Disability.
• Health and Dependent Care Reimbursement Accounts.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
• Insurance (Accident, Group Legal, Life).
• Defined Contribution Retirement Plan.