Quality Assurance Specialist

Description

Are you looking to start your career in food safety and make a meaningful impact right away? As our Quality Assurance Specialist, you’ll step into a brand-new, entry-level role where you’ll help shape our food safety culture, support compliance, and contribute directly to delivering safe, high-quality cheese products across the nation.

We have openings for a Quality Assurance Specialist to join our team. The Food Safety Specialist oversees key aspects of the company’s compliance with food safety regulations and certification standards while helping to foster a positive food safety culture. This role provides guidance, support, and oversight to ensure the organization consistently meets external requirements and internal expectations for safe, high-quality products.

Freshpack is a custom cheese packaging company that develops and innovates cheese products and packaging. Our products can be found in all 50 states and in most major retailers. Over the past 25 years, our team has grown from 15 to 280+ employees. It is an exciting time to join our team, as we are poised for substantial growth over the next 3-5 years.

• Food Safety
  • Culture
    • Help drive positive food safety culture through organization
      • Keep organization informed on food safety related topics
      • Keep a pulse on the organization’s current food safety culture
    • Active role on food safety team
      • Organize meetings
      • Manage short-term and long-term projects
      • Partake in external food safety trainings
  • Compliance
    • SQF Code for Food Manufacturing
      • Assist in ensuring compliance with suppliers, service providers, and co-manufacturers
      • Perform sanitary design reviews on new and existing equipment
      • Ensure company preparedness of crisis
      • Active role on food defense team
      • Lead food fraud mitigation efforts
    • Ensure compliance with other regulatory and customer requirements
      • Keep customer portals current and updated
      • Complete customer questionnaires
      • Stay current and communicate changes to the organization
• Auditing
  • SQF, Regulatory, and Customer audits (3rd party)
    • Help ensure the organization is in compliance with all rules, regulations, and expectations
      • Maintain all food safety certifications and regulatory licenses
      • Organize mock food safety exercises and challenges
      • Perform preventive control and prerequisite program validations

• Written skills
• Attention to detail, observation, and organizational skills
• Planning and project management

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred
• Certified in HACCP and Preventive Controls for Human Food
• Knowledgeable (1-3 years experience) in SQF and FDA regulations

Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

KPI’s are to be presented and approved before the beginning of the quarter and results to be presented following the end of the quarter.

• Medical, dental, vision, company-provided life insurance & more!
• Referral program
• 401(k) program
• Pay for Performance program
• Get paid every Friday!