Food Quality, Safety & Compliance Associate
About the role
Eden Foods – Clinton, Michigan (Lenawee County) seeks a full-time Food Safety and Quality Compliance staff member. Experience, reliability, and willingness to learn are essential. Teamwork and communication skills are necessary. Excellent career opportunity. Good work and good people.
Responsibilities
- Work with the Company’s Quality, Safety, & Compliance (QSC) team and other Departments to maintain documentation, SOPs, and TraceGains data that comply with food quality, safety, and food defense programs for Eden food items.
- Help maintain and improve relationships with suppliers, certifiers, auditors, customers, and government agencies.
- Assess supplier companies and personnel, ingredients, food contact surfaces, and packaging materials to minimize food contamination and ensure food safety, protection, certification, and documentation for the natural foods sold by the Company.
- Genetically engineered items (GMOs) and their derivatives, as well as irradiated items, must be avoided. The same applies to toxic chemicals, additives, and contamination of the foods we sell by them.
- Study the goods and packaging materials and their backgrounds to evaluate which quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements apply.
- Receive and help facilitate answering questions from within the company and from the public about natural, organic, and non-GMO food, as well as QSC issues as they arise.
- Maintain documentation supporting the regulatory requirements for the Company's imported and exported items.
- Manage the organic transaction documents and export paperwork from the organic certifier for international customers.
- Provide the documentation required, including specification sheets, food safety questions, certificates of analysis, and other product quality documentation for the Sales Department, customers, and TraceGains.
- Assist the QSC team and the Company with customer quality and food safety issues.
- Remain current about industry and regulatory developments that may affect the Company, its food items, and QSC issues.
- Attend authorized training(s) concerning food safety and regulatory compliance issues.
- Travel to supplier facilities for the Company, third-party, and regulatory inspections.
- Assist in label reviews and submissions for FDA, Departments of Agriculture, organic, and non-GMO regulatory compliance.
Requirements
- Education and experience sufficient to fulfill the responsibilities assigned.
- BS/BA in Food Science, Engineering, Microbiology, Biology, or other life sciences.
- Equivalent professional experience, such as 3 years of in-plant food industry responsibility in production QC.
- Experience with HACCP and/or FSMA.
- Knowledge of organic, GMOs, agriculture, and food manufacturing and handling is valuable.
- Good judgment in handling proprietary and confidential information.
- Professional-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Being a team player.
- Proficient computer skills and willingness to learn systems used by the Company.
- Sound moral and ethical professional practices.
Qualifications
- Experience with food safety and regulatory compliance.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- Strong organizational and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities.
Skills
- Food Safety and Quality Compliance.
- Supplier Auditing.
- Regulatory Compliance.
- Customer Service.
- Team Leadership.
Benefits
Eden Foods offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, and a supportive work environment.
Pay
Salary range: $XX - $YY per year.
Schedule
Full-time position, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM.
About Eden Foods
Eden Foods is the senior natural and organic food company in North America. It remains an independent manufacturer of dry grocery organic food, focused on the relationships necessary to sustain them. Whole grain, beans, and macrobiotic Japanese traditional foods have been core to its product line since 1968. Over 93% of Eden foods are sold by natural food stores, co-ops, and other retail outlets via traditional natural and grocery distribution channels. The internet, Eden’s website, wholesale sales, and employee purchases make up the remainder. Eden Foods' two warehouses – in Clinton, Michigan and Fremont, California – handle all the food we distribute.
Eden Foods Goals
- Provide the most pure, high quality, life-supporting food and accurate information about them, their uses and benefits.
- Create and maintain a healthy, respectful, challenging, and rewarding environment for people involved with the Company.
- Develop the ability to produce and disseminate the foodstuffs and information we create and handle.
- Cultivate sound relationships with like-minded people and organizations involved in like pursuits.
- Cultivate adaptability to changes in economic, social, and environmental conditions to allow Eden Foods the opportunity to survive long term.
- Have a strong, positive impact on farming and food processing practices used in the world.
- To contribute to peaceful development of life on Earth.