Fsqa Manager Anacortes Plant

Description

Trident Seafoods is North America's largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with global operations in 6 countries and serves customers in almost 60 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington (USA), Trident employs approximately 7,700 people worldwide each year and partners with over 2,700 independent fishermen and crew members in Alaska. Trident catches and processes virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska.

The global supply chain also encompasses cultured and wild species sourced from an international network of trusted suppliers.

Description

Trident Seafoods is North America's largest vertically integrated seafood harvesting and processing company. Trident is a privately held, 100 percent USA-owned company with global operations in 6 countries and serves customers in almost 60 countries. Headquartered in Seattle, Washington (USA), Trident employs approximately 7,700 people worldwide each year and partners with over 2,700 independent fishermen and crew members in Alaska. Trident catches and processes virtually every commercial species of salmon, whitefish, and crab harvested in the North Pacific and Alaska.

The global supply chain also encompasses cultured and wild species sourced from an international network of trusted suppliers.

Summary
:
The Food Safety and Quality Assurance (FSQA) Manager develops, implements, executes, maintains, and continuously improves site food safety and quality assurance programs to prevent or eliminate defects in new or existing products. This role is responsible for ensuring site programs remain aligned with Support Center FSQA standards, state and federal regulations, NOAA Seafood Inspection Program requirements, customer requirements, and applicable third-party or GFSI expectations.

The position requires disciplined program ownership, strong operational presence, timely escalation of food safety and quality risks, effective cross-functional collaboration, and consistent audit-ready execution.

Essential Functions: (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs):

• Own day-to-day execution of site FSQA programs and verify that controls operate as designed and remain audit-ready at all times.
• Actively verify CCPs, process controls, finished product quality, internal process execution, and key risk indicators including Cost of Poor Quality and First Pass Quality.
• Maintain a working understanding of plant operations and how FSQA requirements integrate with production, sanitation, maintenance, receiving, warehousing, and shipping.
• Adjust priorities as needed to address high-risk or emergent food safety and quality issues while maintaining visibility to Support Center FSQA and plant leadership.

Food Safety Culture & Floor Presence:

• Maintain meaningful production floor presence, including a minimum expectation of approximately five hours per week and a target of daily engagement across shifts where practical.
• Verify execution of controls, adherence to specifications, product quality requirements, Good Manufacturing Practices, and overall process consistency.
• Engage employees and supervisors to reinforce food safety expectations, strengthen site food safety culture, and identify barriers to consistent execution.

Communication, Escalation & Alignment:

• Follow established escalation protocols to promptly communicate food safety, legality, authenticity, regulatory, customer, and quality risks.
• Provide clear, factual, risk-based communication of trends, constraints, failures, or potential failures to Support Center FSQA and relevant site leadership.
• Ensure alignment with corporate FSQA direction through proactive coordination with Value Added Operations and Support Center FSQA.
• Communicate critical non-conformities within 24 hours and escalate all CCP breaches immediately when food safety risk is present.

Audit, Regulatory Readiness & Corrective Actions:

• Maintain continuous readiness for regulatory, third-party, customer, and internal audits, including but not limited to WA Dept. of Health, BRC/BAP, USDC, FDA, customer, and other applicable standards.
• Lead FSQA activities during audits, support objective evidence gathering, and ensure findings are documented with appropriate risk context.
• Develop complete and accurate Corrective Action Reports with clear root cause, corrective action, preventive action, and effectiveness verification.
• Review CARs with Support Center FSQA prior to submission where required and ensure timely closure of audit and customer finding actions.
• Close internal audit findings within required timelines and assess corrective action effectiveness within seven days of implementation where applicable.

Product Incident Notification, Holds &

Risk Management:

• Maintain awareness of potential Product Incident Notification triggers and ensure immediate containment when product safety, legality, authenticity, or material quality risk is…