Food Safety Quality Assurance Senior Technician - Third Shift

Job Summary

The FSQA Lead serves as the primary quality and food safety resource on their assigned shift. This position provides technical guidance and daily direction to FSQA Technicians while ensuring compliance with food safety, quality, customer, and regulatory requirements.

Responsibilities

• Maintain compliance with food safety and quality standards
• Monitor production activities
• Conduct routine production audits and inspections
• Review product and process documentation
• Initiate product holds when necessary
• Assist with product disposition decisions
• Escalate significant food safety and quality concerns to management
• Assist supervisors with daily quality priorities
• Review production quality records for accuracy and completeness
• Trend quality data and identify recurring issues
• Audit and comply with customer, regulatory, and third-party audits
• Support waste reduction and defect reduction initiatives

Qualifications

• Associate degree preferred
• High School Diploma or GED required
• 3–5 years of food manufacturing quality experience preferred
• Previous FSQA Technician experience strongly preferred

Skills

• Food Safety and Quality Monitoring
• Shift Quality Leadership
• Investigations & Corrective Actions
• Audit & Compliance Support
• Data Review and Reporting
• Continuous Improvement

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance
• Automatic, FREE $25,000 life insurance policy
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options
• Additional voluntary life, AD&D, Critical Illness, and Short-Term Disability
• 401k Retirement Plan with Match
• Paid Time Off (PTO) & Holidays
• Ongoing training and development