McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Quality Engineer Associate. This new hire will work at the French's plant, located in Springfield, MO. The Quality Engineer Associate will report to a Quality Manager II.

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. As a Fortune 500 company with over $5 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail,food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French's, Frank's RedHot, Stubb's, OLD BAY, Lawry's, Zatarain's, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is "To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is "A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand."

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

POSITION OVERVIEW

Under the direction of the Quality Manager, the Associate Quality Engineer is responsible for the overall development and maintenance of documentation that captures best operating practices in some of the operations departments within the French’s Foods plant. The key objective of this role is to reduce variation in operating methods thereby improving the reliability, repeatability of processes and eliminate defects.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead the management, disposition and system improvements for Out of Specification, defective Materials (Raw, WIP, and Finished goods), and complaints using TPM process (e.g., FMEA, QC Matrix, SPC, 5 Why, 12 Step, DMAIC, Risk Assessments, etc.)
• Quality Technical Lead for start-up of process, equipment design and formulas.
• Drive manufacturing process capability improvements through variation reduction, error-proofing, and implementation of statistics.
• This include collecting and analyzing data to identify and prioritize opportunities for improvement of product and process quality.
• Implement quality best practices and McCormick Quality Standards.
• Conduct Internal Audits and participate in external audits
• Develop capabilities of Operation, Warehouse and QA Teams in relationships to understanding and implementation of quality standards and best practices.
• Daily Maintenance of Quality Programs (e.g., Infinity, Print Systems, checkweighers, operational procedure review / update, Inspection Plans).

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor of Science in a Technical field - Quality/Research/Product Development.
• Leading cross-functional team required Must be able to professionally relate to key vendors, HQ, and Operations to help grow partnerships, gaining agreement on performance expectations and influence change.
• Must have ability to learn technical equipment/process and its capabilities.
• Must be able to relate work tasks to the 7 major plant KPIs (safety, people, quality, performance, service, cost, and innovation).
• Must be able to execute Design of Experiments. (DOE)
• Able to flex style and direct, collaborate, or empower as the situation requires.
• Ability to establish a personal power base built on mutual trust, fairness, and honesty.
• Establish and maintain productive relationships and networks to facilitate business transactions.
• Ability to learn and apply statistical and focus improvement tools for process improvements (SPC, Capability studies, FMEA, DOE, etc.).
• Excellent organizational skills to be able to handle multiple projects and activities to ensure on time completion.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Ability to work independently and have flexible work hours.
• Adaptability – open to and actively solicit new ideas and opinions.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 1-2 years Manufacturing Quality Experience required Project Management Experience preferred.
• HACCP, GFSI (SQF, BRC, etc.), Lean Six Sigma (Green or Black Belt).
• SAP experience preferred TPM Experience preferred (within a food or pharmaceutical industry preferably).

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.