Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature.

Together, with our customers, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances, natural colours and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn and many to learn from, with more than 16,000 employees around the world to explore ideas and ambitions with.

At Sense Colour we develop, market and produce a wide array of colour solutions from our 11 colour manufacturing sites globally. Stretch your skills, create and get inspiration from passionate colleagues. Every day, your energy, your thirst for knowledge, and your creativity will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every colour sale enhances the visual appeal for food and beverages. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.

Our comprehensive knowledge of natural colours, global footprint and strategic insights ensure close partnerships with our customers. With a customized approach to product creation, recent strategic alignment, and the launch of our 2025 strategy, the Sense Colour Taste and Wellbeing Division is a powerhouse of knowledge, innovation, and creativity equipped to surprise customers and consumers with fresh, unique ideas and solutions. We create natural colour experiences that touch emotions across segments including beverages, sweet goods, savory and snacks, and food service.

Responsible for managing and directing all aspects of the Quality Department at the plant level. This requires investigation and response to quality related customer complaints; ensuring all DDW Food Safety and Quality policies and procedures are followed; ensuring finished product conforms to customer and product specifications; monitoring, verification and documentation associated with adherence to regulations.

You?

• Located in Louisville, KY.
• Food Safety: Manage the plant food safety systems to create an environment where food safety threats are recognized and eliminated/mitigated. Manage compliance with all regulatory and company defined food safety and sanitation standards; examples of these systems include: internal/third party audits, vendor audits / certification, inbound and outbound inspection, ingredient, intermediate and finished product inspection, microbiological testing, product traceability, HACCP, organic foods, EU, kosher requirements, sanitation, pest control, lead GMP compliance team and training, and the Environmental Monitoring Program.
• Quality / Manufacturing: Demonstrates a working knowledge of production equipment (processing and packaging equipment) and its’ related impact on overall quality.  Assists with all aspects of new product development, production trials, test sampling and production test runs of new materials and finished products as needed.  Manages QC Lab, QC Systems and related documentation.  Oversees the preparation of various reports monitoring product quality results and customer feedback.  Leads continuous improvement projects and shares best practices between plants. Recommends improvements as appropriate. As back up to Plant Manager and as integral part of plant leadership team must process complete understanding of logistics, scheduling and operations.  Must possess a “roll up sleeves” attitude and have visible presence on manufacturing floor.
• Customer Focus: Provide direct on-site assistance to customers regarding product selection, product use, complaint resolution, troubleshooting, etc  Ability to conduct customer site visits with or without sales associates. Protects the Customer.  And oversees customer sampling program.
• Back-up for the Plant Manager when out.

Benefits include health, dental, vision, paid holidays, vacation, 401K, paid life insurance, short term medical, long term medical, and tuition assistance.

At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful colour, taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.

You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.

Every essence of you enriches our world.

Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.

Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.

Apply online below.