Quality and Process Supervisor - Seed (m/f/d)

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Job Summary: Supervise and ensure the proper execution of processes in seed production, guaranteeing compliance with quality requirements and certifications. Key Responsibilities: 1. Supervise end-to-end traceability of each seed program 2. Implement and supervise biosecurity and operational hygiene measures 3. Design and manage the quality risk matrix to mitigate potential risks **KWS Perú SAC** is seeking a **Quality and Process Supervisor \- Seed (m/f/d)** for its station in **Tambo Grande (Piura)**, responsible for supervising and ensuring the correct execution of processes in certified seed production, guaranteeing compliance with quality requirements (physical, physiological, genetic, and phytosanitary), certifications, and quarantine treatments, through implementation, monitoring, and control of biosecurity, hygiene, and contamination prevention measures, thereby ensuring product integrity and conformity with regulatory standards and destination market requirements. **This is a permanent, full-time position.** **Your Responsibilities:** * Supervise and ensure end-to-end traceability of each program—from seed receipt through planting, pollination, harvesting, processing, and storage or export—via systematic record control, data validation, and continuous operational monitoring, ensuring compliance with quality, audit, and quarantine treatment standards. * Implement and supervise biosecurity and operational hygiene measures, including access control, personnel disinfection, and disinfection of tools, equipment, and materials, aiming to prevent pathogen introduction and spread. * Ensure compliance with phytosanitary requirements mandated by destination countries, managing protocols promptly and accurately to guarantee seed certification and export. * Implement and strictly adhere to technical field inspection and sampling protocols to detect off-type plants and verify varietal genetic purity, ensuring compliance with genetic quality and traceability standards. * Design and manage the quality risk matrix, identifying and evaluating potential risks across processes to prioritize mitigation actions, strengthen internal controls, and ensure compliance with quality, audit, and regulatory requirements. * Implement and promote the station’s quality policy and prevention culture, activating corresponding action plans to foster, reinforce, and encourage high-quality seed production. * Coordinate and lead preparation and execution of audits, managing findings and non-conformities, and ensuring timely implementation of corrective and preventive actions. * Support development, standardization, and maintenance of up-to-date operational procedures and work instructions, ensuring proper implementation through field and plant training and follow-up, guaranteeing alignment with quality, traceability, and regulatory requirements. **Your Profile:** * **Professional degree in Agronomic Engineering, Agroindustrial Engineering, Biology, or related fields.** * **Prior experience in seed production or the agro-industrial sector.** * Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, especially Excel and/or Power BI, for data analysis and report generation. * **Intermediate-level English language proficiency** * Quality management and regulatory compliance: Supervision of standards, audits, and quarantine treatments. * End\-to\-end traceability: Ensuring comprehensive traceability through process control and record validation. * Risk management: Implementation and monitoring of risk matrices, with a preventive focus on critical points. * Application of quality management tools to resolve deviations. * Operational control of agronomic processes * Practical leadership: Experience supervising and coordinating operational teams We look forward to receiving your application via our SuccessFactors application system! Please use the **"Apply Now"** function in the job posting.