Quality and Food Safety Hold and Release Officer

Job Description:

Join our team as a Quality and Food Safety Hold and Release Officer, where you'll play a critical role in protecting product quality and ensuring food safety compliance across our operations. In this position, you'll help safeguard our products by ensuring all quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements are met before products are released to market. Based in Lewisburg, Ohio, this individual contributor role collaborates closely with the testing, quality, and operations teams, making a direct impact on product availability, consumer safety, and operational excellence.

As a Quality and Food Safety Hold and Release Officer, you will review and evaluate microbiological and chemical testing results, verify that all required quality and food safety records are complete, and support the timely release of finished products. You'll coordinate cross-functional reviews of analysis data, reconcile food safety hold records, investigate traceability requirements, and provide recommendations for product disposition. This role is essential to ensuring products meet quality and food safety standards while maintaining efficient product flow and availability in the marketplace.

What are we looking for?

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor’s degree in chemistry, food science, a related technical field or equivalent
- Ideally 3 – 5 years of work experience in a Food manufacturing environment
- Experienced in auditing, quality systems, and laboratory techniques
- Highly organized, great prioritization skills, flexible, and approachable
- Knowledge of food safety and nutrition is an asset

Preferred Qualifications

- Master’s degree in Chemistry, Food Science, or a related technical field
- Experience reviewing
- Certification in PCQI, GMP Auditor, HACCP or other related certification
- Experience using SAP, Power BI, and/ or quality & food safety systems

What will be your key responsibilities?

- Product Hold and Release: Manage the hold and release of our finished product, while ensuring that it has met all of our rigorous quality and microbiological standards
- Technical Leadership: Manage the flow of product samples and prioritizing products to maintain optimal workflows for all areas of the business
- Support Innovation: Develop and/or support continuous improvement initiatives aimed at increasing speed and efficiencies of our processes
- Risk Management: Proactively identify, assess, and escalate any positive tests so we can mitigate any risk to consumers
- Proactive Communication: Review daily reconciliations from our facility along with our 3rd party distribution facility, ensuring accurate records and compliance

What can you expect from Mars?

- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

Mars does not sponsor visas for this role.

This position is not eligible for relocation benefits.