Job Title: Food Safety and Quality Advisor
Location: Seattle, WA 98134
Duration: 12 months Assignment with possible extension
Work Model: Onsite 4x per week
Shift/Hours: 40hours/week
 
Summary:

• You can work with industry experts, cross-functional teams, and an outstanding supply base to drive projects from start to finish.
• At the same time, you’ll be continuing a legacy of world class product safety and quality performance by managing quality signals, product incidents, and supply base management on a daily basis.

Team culture/work environment:

• Under food safety quality umbrella.
• Working with team (supplier food safety quality).
• Focusing on retail packaging that goes to the customer (cups/lids/etc).
• A little more analysis, digging into complaints and customer responses (looking for someone data focused).
• Specification management, comfortable reviewing specs and CAD drawings.
• Comfortable working with packaging engineering and QA Partners.

Key projects:

• Liaison between packaging engineering team and the new system (Enterprise Spec Management System).
• Assessment of suppliers for the packaging.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Will work with packaging engineer, ideally has a background with packaging.
• Compliance Tracking.
• Apply in-depth technical knowledge to projects and gather insights (i.e., testing, supplier and product assessment) across a wide variety of single-use packaging materials/items including but not limited to: poly-coated paperboard (hot cups), polypropylene PP (cups and lids), polylactic acid PLA, poly-hydroxyalkanoic acids PHA, molded pulp, corrugate, containerboard, utensils, etc.
• Proactively analyze product and supplier quality signals, metrics, audit data, customer feedback, regulator, and workgroup input.
• Identify trends and lead investigation and resolution of packaging related concerns from regulators, retail stores, field QA partners or internal and external customers.
• Interface and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams, including internationally based partners, to deliver results within demanding timelines.
• Acts as a Retail Food Packaging Product Safety and Quality system expert in the development of new packaging initiatives or operating practices.
• 3-5 years of experience is required.

Technology requirements:

•  Microsoft Office Suite.
• Smartsheets.
• ServiceNow.
• Quality Management System knowledge.

Degree or certifications required:

•  Degree preferred, but open to no degree if they have all required skills.

Years’ experience:

• 3-5+ years of experience required.

Required background & skills:

• Strong packaging and material science background with emphasis in plastics, pulp, and paper (3-5 years).
• Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards or manufacturer and supplier quality system and product quality auditing with an emphasis in materials (3-5 years).
• Progressive experience managing the development and review of information required to comply with product safety and quality (3-5 years).
• Quality Management System knowledge including HACCP, GMPs, ISO or GFSI and BRC complaint standards. Basic understanding of Food Safety and Quality GFSI requirements.

Nice-to-Haves:

•  Similar experience with their previous roles.

 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 43.88/daily.