Brasil, DF | Distrito Federal, Home Office
Efetivo (CLT)
Biólogo
Biotecnologista
Engenheiro Agrícola
Engenheiro Agrônomo
Engenheiro de Produção
Tecnólogo em Agroindústria
Tecnólogo em Agronegócio
Descrição
- Collaborates with and is a resource for Latin America Seed Operations internal and external production locations and Supply Chains to ensure the consistent implementation of work processes, policies, procedures for the quality management system in the region.
- Conduct training in the region regarding quality policies and procedures. Examples including but not limited to: Quality incident management policy, Global Business Support Procedures, etc.
- Monitor, compile, and distribute quality metrics that identify opportunities for improvement and involve relevant stakeholders to ensure improvements occur. Metrics may include audit findings, non-conforming product, and customer complaints.
- Participate and/or lead Quality improvement projects within the region.
- Collaborate across regions to provide consistency and leveraging of best practices.
- Member of the Global QA Network and actively represents the region and or/global team on projects to ensure harmonization and standardization across regions.
- Responsible for regional reporting and global alignment of quality metrics, including incidents, with analysis and improvements identified and implemented.
- Quality Incident Response Team Leader (IRTL) for significant issues within the region, and conducts/assists with Root Cause Analysis when necessary. Distributes learnings of regional issues/incidents to enable sharing and implementation of management system and production corrective actions. Conducts regional and site reviews of quality incidents.
- Supports completion of quality management system reviews (MSR) at the site level and drives improvement in the region. Responsible for conducting the regional MSR (Tier 2).
- Ensure quality management system is in place to meet product launch requirements in SPSC and to meet accreditation requirements.
- Effectively partners with Commercial, Seed Production and Supply Chain, R&D, and Regional/Global leadership to meet customer needs.
- Provides input to the regional audit plan aligned to the Corteva monitoring strategy to optimize global auditing resources, expertise, and business risk prioritization. May also conduct audits, assist with audits, or provide training to potential future auditors.
- Facilitate/lead a regional Quality Ambassador Network that will be utilized to advance quality initiatives, auditing, and learnings across sites.
- Duties may be split or shared with another QA Specialist within the region.
Requisitos
- Minimum of a scientific, agricultural, or engineering bachelor’s degree with focus in agronomy, engineering, quality assurance, business, biology, or life sciences.
- 8+ years total industry experience with direct experience in the agricultural and/or Seed production industry, with seed production location experience preferred.
- Knowledge of the principles and practical applications associated with seed production operations. Ability to use metrics to guide continuous improvement of the quality management system.
- Position will be located in Brazil, preferably located near a Brazil production location and can be a hybrid of in-office and remote or potentially fully remote. Travel will be occasionally required, and on-site time at production locations required intermittently as well.
- Fluent Portuguese and English language speaking, writing, and reading is required.
- Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with Quality Management Systems and/or Seed Production and Supply Chain.
- Demonstrated ability to lead teams without authority to ensure alignment with demonstrated objectives and company goals/policies.
- Demonstrated ability to build relationships and influence outside the workgroup that enhance the performance of the teams.
- An ability to think ‘outside of the box’ to develop novel, creative solutions for quality assurance challenges. Being proactive when possible to prevent quality issues from occurring.
- Six Sigma and/or Lean certification.
- Experience and understanding of how to conduct investigations and/or Root Cause Analysis.
- Experience leading or contributing to a continuous improvement project.
- Understanding project management, including scoping, as it pertains to time and Return On Investment (ROI).
- Experience leading audits and/or Certified Quality Auditor.
