Associate, Food Safety & Quality. (Overnight

TITLE: Food Safety & Quality Associate (FSQA Associate)
DEPARTMENT: Quality Assurance REPORTS TO: Supervisor, Food Safety & Quality Assurance

Thistle makes it easy to eat well – without overthinking it. Thistle was founded in 2013 with a mission to help people get and stay healthy while improving the sustainability of our food system. Thistle delivers fully prepared, healthy‑by‑default meals, snacks, desserts, and organic cold‑pressed juices. We believe the health of people starts with eating real, whole foods, in the right balance, without the friction.

We’re building a future where nutritious, sustainable food is accessible, craveable, and part of everyday life.

The Food Safety & Quality Associate is responsible for performing standardized food safety and quality control checks to ensure that the products meet the required legal and company standards for safety and quality. This role is required to maintain calibrations, monitor equipment, check product integrity, and identify areas for quality control improvement.

• Follow and implement Good Manufacturing Practices (GMPs).
• Train receiving teams on food safety and quality control procedures.
• Support Culinary QCs/leads in day-to-day food safety quality checks in adherence to preventive controls.
• Work closely with production line QCs/leads to ensure complete and accurate record keeping.
• Support production QCs/leads in day-to-day food safety quality checks and in adherence to preventive controls.
• Train production teams on food safety and quality control procedures.
• Assist with training, instruction, and support on all manufacturing equipment.
• Work closely with the sanitation team to implement the Master Sanitation Program
• Verify adherence to Preventive Controls, Processing Parameters, CCPs, Allergen, and Sanitation programs
• Ensure Quality Management Systems and Food Safety programs comply with the regulatory requirements and 3rd party food safety standards (local, state, federal, GMP, SQF)
• Ensure allergen program, allergen declaration per recipe, and labeling requirements are met
• Conduct internal audits to monitor food safety quality, processes, facilities, and quality systems.
• Submit complete and accurate audit reports within established timelines.
• Monitor and verify day-to-day QA and Food Safety records.
• Help build out an internal auditing process & certification program.
• Conduct pre-operational line inspections and residual swabs.
• Calibrate critical equipment- thermometers, pH meters, scales, etc.
• Oversee Sanitation and environmental testing program.
• Additional duties that may be assigned