Food Safety & Quality Senior Manager

Mori is a fast-paced anti-food waste Series C startup on a mission to create “More Food, Less Waste”, by transforming the food, agriculture, and packaging industries. Leveraging the unique properties of a naturally derived silk protein, Mori creates an all-natural food ingredient and coating which slows down the spoiling process of perishable foods. With Mori Silk, we can fundamentally change the food system by reducing our reliance on plastic packaging, reducing food and packaging waste, and increasing efficiency across the supply chain.

• Operate with Care:
  We respect where food comes from and where it is meant to go.
• Practice Humility:
  We communicate simply and specifically.
• Do Good Work:
  We show the data and prioritize practicality.
• Anything, Anytime, Anywhere:
  We do whatever it takes to get the job done.

Mori is seeking a highly motivated, solution oriented, collaborative, and hands-on Senior Manager of Food Safety and Quality Assurance to support Mori’s Food Safety and Quality efforts. You will be responsible for leading the development and improvement of Mori’s Food Safety and Quality programs, processes, and systems for our internal production facility in Boston. You will partner with other Mori teams, such as supply chain, procurement, engineering, manufacturing, and technical services to build Food Safety and Quality expectations into all food safety and quality programs and processes.

You will have the unique opportunity to help lead the efforts of food safety and quality development work that has not been done in the food industry before. You will report to the Senior Director of Food Safety and Quality. This position will advance our global business by ensuring our ability to develop new processes and suppliers while maintaining and executing against existing programs and systems, including SQF and other regulatory and industry certifications.

• Based in Hood Park, Charlestown, MA
• On Site Requirements: 5 days a week

• Ensure effective execution of Mori Food Safety and Quality Standards (“FSQ”) across operations including process development and scale-up, internal manufacturing, supply chain, and technical services.
• Manage Food Safety activities within our Boston production facility including reviewing batch records, cleaning and sanitation records, EMP monitoring, microbiological swabbing and testing, training, GMPs, performing internal audits, overseeing the HACCP and Food Safety Program, and maintaining SQF certification.
• Enforce 3rd party, customer, and SQF certification requirements and maintain all relevant certifications (Kosher, Halal, Organic), including interfacing with customers and regulatory and food safety certification bodies.
• Coordinate root cause and risk analysis and manage Corrective and Preventative Action Plans (CAPA).
• Collaborate with various business functions to ensure clear protocols are in place and executed to support qualifying and on-boarding of new supplier and distributor. partners, conducting production trials, first production approvals, and monitoring of on-going production.
• Review certificates of analysis (CoA) from suppliers, QA/QC reports, and other quality documents.
• Support routine quality activities such as supplier complaints, lot and code tracing, monitor holds, review plant problems.
• Create and maintain reports including but not limited to quality data trending, information spreadsheets, and log spreadsheets.
• Conduct microbiological and environmental monitoring testing to verify food safety controls, analyze results, and document findings in according with internal programs and regulatory requirements.
• Be the voice for FSQA on cross-functional project teams and provide the appropriate guidance and support in the execution of projects.
• Establish well-organized priorities and ensure team members understand expectations of the priorities and tasks.
• Other tasks as required by business needs.

• Clear & Open Communicator - You share observations, ask questions, raise issues, and keep everyone informed with straightforward, respectful communication.
• Safety-Minded & Quality-Focused - You naturally…