FSQA Assistant Manager - Bellingham Plant

Trident Seafoods is North America’s largest vertically integrated seafood company—partnering with fishermen, employees, and communities to responsibly harvest, process, and share wild Alaska seafood with the world. With deep roots in Alaska and operating across the globe, Trident is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, committed to nourishing the world while upholding the highest standards for safety, sustainability, and excellence.

At Trident Seafoods, we work together for something bigger than ourselves. From nourishing the world with the best protein on earth to protecting our oceans, serving our fishermen, and supporting communities in Alaska and beyond, here, you’ll find a values-driven culture where your growth matters, your work has purpose and your contributions are recognized and appreciated—because at Trident, we believe meaningful work connects us all.

Summary:

The Assistant FSQA Manager supports site food safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness at the Anacortes operation. Working in conjunction with the FSQA Manager, this role helps ensure finished products meet company, customer, regulatory, and food safety requirements; supports execution and continuous improvement of Quality Assurance programs; provides day-to-day guidance to Quality Assurance team members; and maintains an active operational presence to verify controls are effective and consistently followed.

Essential Functions (Responsibilities, Tasks, Supervisory Needs)

• Supervises, coaches, and supports Quality Assurance team members in conjunction with the FSQA Manager, including daily direction, priority setting, training reinforcement, and coverage support.

• Assists in ensuring all shipped products meet product specifications, food safety requirements, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and applicable company standards.

• Performs and documents audits to monitor compliance with Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs), food safety procedures, sanitation standards, pest control expectations, labeling requirements, and internal FSQA programs.

• Verifies critical control points (CCPs), prerequisite programs, process controls, finished product quality, and other key food safety or quality indicators; escalates deviations or repeated issues through established protocols.

• Maintains a strong working understanding of plant operations and integrates FSQA requirements with production, sanitation, maintenance, warehousing, and shipping activities.

• Monitors and reports site quality performance, service performance, complaint trends, Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), First Pass Quality (FPQ), and other assigned risk indicators.

• Supports Product Incident Notification (PIN) awareness, containment, documentation, and cross-functional coordination when food safety, legality, authenticity, or quality risks are identified.

• Participates in internal, regulatory, third-party, and customer audits; documents findings, gathers objective evidence, supports root cause analysis, and verifies completion of corrective and preventive actions.

• Trains and oversees site personnel to promote adherence to department protocols, company standards, HACCP plans, food safety plans, sanitation requirements, and audit readiness expectations.

• Positively motivates employees, reinforces food safety culture, recognizes team contributions, drives continuous improvement through factual and professional communication, and performs other similar or related duties as requested or assigned.

The essential functions listed above are not exhaustive. The organization may assign other duties as needed to meet business requirements. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these…