Quality Generalist - Farmer City, Illinois

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Quality Generalist - Farmer City, Illinois 

Quality Generalist (Farmer City, Illinois)

As a Quality Generalist, you are accountable for all areas of quality, including product, process, and system quality for plant and field operations. You own manufacturing document control for quality and ensure that Row Crop Production teams prioritize the customer by partnering with Regional Quality, Manufacturing Excellence, Logistics, and Customer Service teams. Your role is crucial in ensuring key critical parameters are in place to deliver the product right the first time. You support complaint management by determining corrective action processes and ensuring follow-up, measure and report the Cost of Poor-Quality occurrences, and ensure stewardship processes are understood and utilized throughout manufacturing with expected reporting. You assure departmental and cross-functional disciplines are trained in all aspects of quality and are accountable for all lab operations, ensuring processes are executed accurately and operational goals and metrics are met. You partner with internal and external stakeholders and operate as a key point of contact for quality-related matters, including best practice sharing. You maintain a Quality Management System on site according to external and internal requirements, generate Site Quality Management reviews, ensure that specifications/regulations in the ISO systems are implemented at the site, and support an effective internal audit program on site. You also support the implementation of respective global/regional Quality initiatives, programs, and regulations.

Your Tasks And Responsibilities:

• Be accountable for all areas of quality, including product, process, and system quality for plant and field operations;
• Own manufacturing document control for quality;
• Ensure Row Crop Production teams prioritize the customer by partnering with Regional Quality, Manufacturing Excellence, Logistics, and Customer Service teams to ensure key critical parameters are in place to deliver the product right the first time;
• Support complaint management by determining corrective action processes and ensuring follow-up;
• Measure and report the Cost of Poor-Quality occurrences;
• Ensure stewardship processes are understood and utilized throughout manufacturing with expected reporting;
• Assure departmental and cross-functional disciplines are trained in all aspects of quality;
• Be accountable for all lab operations, ensuring processes are executed accurately and operational goals and metrics are met;
• Partner with internal and external stakeholders and operate as a key point of contact for quality-related matters, including best practice sharing;
• Maintain a Quality Management System on site according to external and internal requirements;
• Generate Site Quality Management reviews;
• Ensure that specifications/regulations in the ISO systems are implemented at the site;
• Support an effective internal audit program on site;
• Support the implementation of respective global/regional Quality initiatives, programs, and regulations.

Who You Are:

Bayer seeks an incumbent who possesses the following:

Required Qualifications:

• High School Diploma or GED;
• Valid Driver's License. To be eligible to drive a company car, your driving record must meet guidelines based on the company’s Risk Screening for Hiring Drivers – MVR will be reviewed as part of pre-employment screening;
• Able to prioritize work schedule; demonstrates some ability to work independently;
• Ability to support others in completing assigned tasks;
• Follows policies and procedures;
• Ability to lift a minimum of 60 lbs. (a bag of seed);
• Ability to workdays, nights, rotating shifts, weekends, and overtime as business needs require.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years of applicable experience OR Bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience in an applicable OR Master’s degree.

Posting is available until October 30, 2025.

Employees can expect to be paid a salary between $79,987.20 – 119,980.80. Additional compensation may include a bonus or commission (if relevant).  Other benefits include health care, vision, dental, retirement, PTO, sick leave, etc. If selected for this role, the offer may vary based on market data/ranges, an applicant’s skills and prior relevant experience, certain degrees and certifications, and other relevant factors.

    YOUR APPLICATION      

Bayer offers a wide variety of competitive compensation and benefits programs. If you meet the requirements of this unique opportunity, and want to impact our mission Science for a better life, we encourage you to apply now. Be part of something bigger. Be you. Be Bayer. 
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Bayer is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disabled/Veterans
 
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      Bayer is an E-Verify Employer.             Location: United States : Illinois : Farmer City      Division: Crop Science     Reference Code: 854702          Contact Us     Email: hrop_usa@bayer.com