# Q&FS and Sensory Technologist

Job Description: The fundamental purpose of the Q&FS and Sensory Technologist role is to support factory operations by ensuring quality, food safety, and sensory compliance through the effective implementation and maintenance of quality management systems (QMS), sensory conformance programs, and related processes. This role is responsible for maintaining the plant's quality compliance infrastructure while ensuring finished products and ingredients consistently meet established quality and sensory specifications. The position requires cross-functional knowledge of factory operations and accountability for implementing quality and sensory-related projects, processes, and programs. Key responsibilities include contributing to QMS compliance by converting recipes into factory systems to meet specifications, maintaining recipe governance for Q&FS-related Statistical Process Control (SPC) parameters, and serving as the site liaison to Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) for Packaging Holds, coordinating S-CAPA management, communication, and follow-up to support timely resolution of packaging quality issues. Additionally, the role oversees the sensory evaluation of finished products and ingr

- **Id**: 4036236
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/mars-qfs-and-sensory-technologist>
- **Role**: Industrial Engineering
- **Role family**: Industrial Engineering
- **Seniority**: junior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Chattanooga, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-10T20:20:46Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-10
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-10T20:20:46Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 5453
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Pet Food, Supplies & Care, Confectionery

## Company

- **Id**: 94439
- **Name**: Mars
- **Domain**: mars.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/mars>
- **Size band**: 5000+
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 82
- **Open postings**: 74
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.905
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 16
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T06:52:35Z

## Technologies

- **CAPA** — Optional: no
- **Statistical Process Control** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 2
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: high_school
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-10T20:20:46Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 8; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 6 · green card filings: 5; Filings 12m: 6

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 16
- **Reasons**: conf:2, win:early, comp:junior,brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-10T23:08:36Z

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