The lnternal Compliance Specialist position manages internal compliance toward policy, procedures, processes, internal and external audits and other local, state and federal regulatory requirements.  Additional responsibilities include assuring documents within Policy Tech describe compliant practices for the described activity, and develops metrics and reports from audit observations and improvement opportunities. 

Core Responsibilities: 

• Responsible for administration of Policy Tech System/Intelex to include training and support for all users of the system. 
• Responsible to review and audit all documents within Policy Tech/Intelex to assure the procedure describes the practice and the practice follows the procedure and then make any changes as necessary to either the practice, the procedure or both.
• Assesses the document content and determines the appropriate personnel are assigned as reviewers, approvers and readers for all quality/food safety/compliance document changes that reside in Policy Tech/Intelex. 
• Search all sources to compare and contrast best in class quality/food safety/compliance programs and practices and trains appropriate personnel for increased effectiveness.
• Provides support to Ingredion audit liaison personnel for accessing documentation and records during Regulatory, FSSC22000, Supplier, and Customer Audits. Updates and maintains audit tracker for all audit findings.
• Responsible for the Ingredion internal audit program.  This includes knowledge of local/state/federal regulations and all applicable GFSI standards to assure program is sufficient to meet compliance expectations for any audits and conducts internal audits of the plant and warehouse.
• Review publicly available audit results to understand focus areas for inspections and prepare the organization appropriately for the identified focus areas.
• Reviews all internal and external audit results and compiles data to develop meaningful reports and metrics for improvement and continued success.
• Create validation reports to ensure all PRPs are validated on an annual basis.
• Coordinator of the Customer Non-conformances. Responsible to capture trends and leads teams to successfully identify root causes and implement effective CAPA across the organization to eliminate recurrence of negative events.
• Maintain customer complaint metrics.
• Works closely with other functional areas to assist with effective investigation techniques are utilized to successfully utilize root cause analysis and effective corrective action implementation.

Qualified candidates will have: 

•  A 4 year technical bachelor´s degree preferred, or combination of associate´s degree education and experience.
• 2+ years of document control and audit experience in GFSI schemes and/or an FDA regulated environment preferred.  FSSC22000 experience highly preferred
• Strong CAPA investigation skills that can assist with identifying root cause and implementing effective corrective action to eliminate recurrence of events.
• Strong experience with MS office products, (Power Point, advanced Word and Excel techniques, Visio).  Must be able to become proficient in the use of software applications used for doc management, etc. 
• Excellent time management and communication skills