FSQA Lead

The Food Safety & Quality Assurance Team Lead (FSQA Lead) is a hands‑on leadership role responsible for helping ensure food safety and quality standards are consistently met throughout our greenhouse and packing operations. This position is ideal for an experienced food safety or quality professional who enjoys being on the production floor, solving problems, coaching others, and playing an active role in building a strong food safety culture.

The Food Safety & Quality Assurance Team Lead (FSQA Lead) is a hands‑on leadership role responsible for helping ensure food safety and quality standards are consistently met throughout our greenhouse and packing operations. This position is ideal for an experienced food safety or quality professional who enjoys being on the production floor, solving problems, coaching others, and playing an active role in building a strong food safety culture.

The FSQA Lead supports the FSQA Manager by providing daily leadership and oversight of food safety, quality assurance, sanitation verification, and regulatory compliance activities across production, packaging, warehousing, and shipping/receiving operations. The role oversees completion and record‑keeping of process and quality checks, HACCP/food safety checks, sanitation verifications, environmental monitoring activities, and audit readiness in line with company standards, customer requirements, and applicable food safety regulations.

As part of the FSQA team, this role provides an opportunity to help establish strong FSQA practices and food safety culture at a growing operation.

• Serve as the day‑to‑day FSQA point of contact during the assigned shift, providing direction, coaching, and technical support to FSQA Technicians and partnering with Operations to address food safety and quality issues in real time.
• Help ensure FSQA Technicians and Operations complete assigned inspections, process checks, sampling, verifications, and documentation accurately and on time.
• Perform and verify daily GMP and GAP compliance, including pre‑operation, in‑process, and post‑operation inspections.
• Conduct regular process checks throughout production, packaging, warehousing, shipping, and receiving, including label checks, sanitation verification, net weight checks, package integrity checks, QA hold activities, retention sampling, and product release documentation.
• Monitor process preventive controls and other food safety and quality controls; promptly identify and elevate deviations and support corrective action completion.
• Support environmental monitoring program activities, including swabbing, sample coordination, documentation, trend review, and corrective action follow‑up.
• Review records for accuracy, completeness, and compliance; maintain organized documentation for food safety, quality, sanitation, environmental monitoring, and audit programs.
• Perform regular facility inspections in coordination with the FSQA Manager and assist with internal audits to verify compliance with food safety and quality systems.
• Support preparation for external food safety audits, including PrimusGFS (GFSI‑benchmarked), customer, and regulatory audits.
• Assist in training employees on food safety requirements, company processes and policies, GMPs, sanitation expectations, and quality standards.
• Work cross‑functionally with Sanitation, Production, Maintenance, Purchasing, Warehouse, and other teams to resolve food safety and quality concerns and maintain needed supplies and consumables.
• Participate in department goals, continuous improvement initiatives, career development goals, and company growth goals.
• Report to the FSQA Manager and support the Compliance department as needed.

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