Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist

About the role

As a Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Specialist, you will provide specialized knowledge of specific segments of quality systems or plant processes such as food safety and quality auditing, instrumentation, specific product line knowledge, computer systems, management or oversight of suppliers, and other focus areas. You will prepare for and participate in customer audits, address customer requirements and concerns, and collaborate on audits with internal and external teams.

Responsibilities

• Audit production processes, raw materials, suppliers, and vendors to ensure established quality standards are met.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including product management and production, to identify and mitigate quality risks.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities, or other quality failures.
• Ensure compliance with formal external and internal quality standards.
• Manage specific segments of quality management systems and provide continuous improvement support for operations or other functional areas.
• Investigate and respond to customer complaints and provide guidance.
• Lead the nonconforming materials program for the plant and other plant-specific activities.
• Independently solve moderately complex issues with minimal supervision, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• Minimum of two years of related work experience.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Proven experience in prioritizing work and meeting deadlines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in conducting food safety audits.
• Laboratory experience.
• Strong analytical skills to evaluate change factors and formulate independent decisions.
• Ability to anticipate, recognize, and address process and laboratory problems, implementing improvements based on findings.
• Salt experience.