EMEA Regulatory & Food Safety Manager - Fixed Term

EMEA Regulatory & Food Safety Manager - Maternity Cover

Company: Ball Corporation

Location: Belgrade, RS, 11070; Cabanillas del Campo, GU, ES; Fredericia, DK; Malmö, SE; La Selva del Camp, ES; Ludesch, AT; Devizes, GB; Gelsenkirchen, DE; Dýšina, CZ; Luton, GB; Bierne, FR; Lublin, PL; Las Rozas de Madrid, ES; Plzeň, CZ; Bellegarde sur Valserine, FR; Luton, GB; and other listed locations. (Note: the original text contained a long, mixed list of locations.)

Date: 19 Sept 2025

Job Category: Quality/ Continuous Improvement

Position summary:

You support development, training, execution, implementation, and compliance auditing of the Corporate Quality and Food Safety Management Program complaint to FSSC 22000 including site certification.

What are you responsible for?

• Participate in the development and implementation of the Corporate Quality and Food Safety Management Program in region/plants in alignment with peer regions and global with standardization through BOE.
• Develop and maintain QFSMS documentation compliant to applicable standards, customer requirements, and internal practices and in alignment with the regulatory team.
• Provide support to site, region, and global in association with external 3rd party audits of QFSMS including tracking of findings, cross seeding corrective actions, and standardizing through the BOE routine.
• Support plants, quality, and commercial with standardization associated with inquiries from customers relative to Quality and Food Safety approvals and documentation including providing compliance evidence.
• When possible establish standardized declarations/statements which demonstrate compliance for the region/global and maintain on "The Source" for customer access. When individual customer requests are made provide information with support of commercial/quality in alignment with the requisite standards.
• Participate in development of annual QFSMS Goals and Objectives in alignment with the global and region strategy providing data/input to the sites and corporate management review.
• Lead the Corporate QFSMS review for the region and participate in the global review.
• Develop, Improve, Maintain, and Execute the Food Safety and Quality Culture plan to include annual employee survey and recognition programs to include site, region, and global awards. Perform analysis of survey results for action planning in support of the plants and region with global connectivity
• Mentor site Food Safety Team members in GMP, HACCP, Food Fraud, and Food Defense practice.
• Provide QFSMS training to sites, region, corporate, and global personnel in alignment with peer regions.
• Develop, maintain, and improve QFSMS (CBT) training for training system assignment and tracking in partnership with training development and execution stakeholders.

What are we looking for?

• Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree in related field, business or engineering.
• Minimum of 3 years' experience in quality related environment with food safety management.
• Experience with Food safety management, program development, execution, and auditing.
• Fluent spoken and written English
• ASQ Six Sigma Black Belt or ASQ Quality Engineer certification desirable
• Required read, write, speak proficiently in English

Ball Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We actively encourage applications from everybody, regardless of gender, age, ethnicity, faith, ability, or orientation. Please note the advertised job title might vary from the job title on the contract due to local job title structure and global HR systems.