Designed specifically for U.S. food companies with Spanish-speaking employees.
Your food facility is safe. It's time to make it unforgettable.
Give your workforce the tools they need to deliver batch-to-batch perfection, build customer trust, and turn reliability into your strongest competitive advantage.
This 8-hour course gives your Spanish-speaking QA leaders, plant managers, and R&D teams one job: make consistency the standard.
Train your leaders in their native language to catch process drift before it becomes a defect, eliminate the waste and rework that bleed your margins, and create the kind of consistency that keeps customers coming back.
After this course, your team will be able to:
Lead daily plant operations with an active mindset focused on zero defect production
Protect product integrity by enforcing strict packaging and sensory standards
Identify hidden quality risks in all materials before they ever touch the floor
Turn customer feedback into immediate floor level action that stops repeated production errors
Prepare your facility to confidently pass audits and earn the official SQF Quality Shield

Food Safety and Quality Leaders
Sqf Practitioners
Plant & Operations Managers
Production Supervisors & Shift Leads
Research & Development (R&D) Specialists
Built for the frontline leaders who turn ingredients into flawless, repeatable products.
Delivering batch-to-batch perfection isn't just a QA responsibility. It takes complete alignment across all the plant floor. When a bad batch presents itself, the money is already lost. True quality control happens when your leaders can spot process drift on the line and correct it before it becomes scrap or rework.
This course gives your Spanish-speaking leaders across every department the shared technical language, practical tools, and floor-level confidence to protect your brand and deliver exact specifications on every single shift.
Because a certificate proves you're compliant.
Uncompromising quality proves you're indispensable.
Dr. Ligia Estefanía Arízaga Collantes is an expert in Food Quality and Safety Management Systems, with a PhD in Projects and a Master of Science (Magister Scientiae) in Agribusiness. She has over a decade of experience as a consultant, trainer, and auditor for SMEs and large industries. She is a certified Lead Auditor in the main GFSI schemes (FSSC 22000, SQF, BRC), an Official SQF Consultant, and is qualified as a PCQI Trainer for the FDA's FSMA regulations. She has led the implementation of systems in key companies in the sector and currently serves as Technical Manager and Director of Quality and Safety, which gives her an indispensable practical perspective for teaching.


Day 1
• Master the SQF Quality Code basics to shift your facility from simple safety to total quality control.
• Build a practical Quality Plan to pinpoint Critical Quality Points before defects occur (Modules 1 & 2).
• Catch process drift early using simple tools to eliminate waste and costly rework (Module 3).
• Turn customer complaints into floor fixes that permanently stop repeated production errors (Module 4).
• Workshop: Map out a clear strategy to boost consistency and earn the SQF Quality Shield.

$229.00 USD
Participation Diploma
Access to downloadable resources
Duration: 16 hours (2 days)
Schedule: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM MST

$199.00 USD
Participation Diploma
Access to downloadable resources
Duration: 16 hours (2 days)
Schedule: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM MST

Impartiality and Conflict of Interest
Enrollment and participation in training courses offered by CICS Americas does not grant or imply any benefit, advantage, preference, or impact on the results of audits, ratings, certifications, recertifications, or evaluations conducted under schemes such as SQF or other food safety programs.
The proper implementation, maintenance, and improvement of management systems, as well as performance during audits and compliance with applicable requirements, are the sole responsibility of your company and its personnel. CICS Americas does not guarantee specific results from participation in the courses, as these depend directly on the practical application of the knowledge acquired.
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