Processing Operator | FrieslandCampina | Veghel

As a Packaging Operator in Veghel, you work in a high-tech production environment where raw materials from milk are processed into high-quality ingredients for, among others, baby food, medical nutrition, sports nutrition, pharmaceutical applications, and the food industry. This makes your work technically challenging and quality-critical. Food safety, HACCP, GMP, hygiene, and precise process control are essential in this role. As a Packaging Operator, you play a crucial role in the packaging process. Thanks to your efforts, high-quality ingredients are packaged and shipped safely, efficiently, and according to the strictest quality standards to customers worldwide. Your craftsmanship directly contributes to products used in baby food, medical nutrition, sports nutrition, and other high-quality applications. Your tasks include independently setting up, operating, and monitoring packaging installations, ensuring product quality according to HACCP, GMP, and hygiene guidelines, performing quality checks and recording production data, identifying, analyzing, and resolving malfunctions and process deviations, performing first-line maintenance on machines and installations, checking packaging materials and product data, conducting sampling and quality checks according to applicable procedures, actively contributing to process improvements and optimizations, ensuring correct administration and shift handover, and collaborating with operators, panel operators, the technical service, and other departments.

As an Analytical Specialist QC, you are responsible for developing, improving, and implementing analytical methods and equipment for quality control. You ensure that the quality of raw materials, intermediates, and final products is optimally monitored and contribute to an efficient production process where quality is right the first time (First Time Right). Within the QC team of about 15 colleagues, you work closely in a smaller sub-team of 3 to 4 colleagues. Safety, food safety, sustainability, and collaboration are central to this. You are involved in developing, improving, and implementing in-line and at-line analytical methods, drafting and executing validation plans, protocols, and reports, and writing, updating, and improving analytical procedures. Additionally, you coordinate the maintenance, calibration, and validation of analytical equipment, perform statistical analyses, and interpret analytical data. You solve problems in case of deviations and malfunctions, draft User Requirement Specifications (URS), manage life cycle programs and backup plans for equipment, build and share knowledge, and develop training for colleagues. You represent the location within internal knowledge platforms. You work with analytical methods such as particle size, endotoxin determination, wastewater analyses, dry matter, protein (Kjeldahl), ash determination, spectrometry, specific rotation, and TOC analyses.