Food Safety Quality & Regulatory Associate

About the role

The Food Safety Quality and Regulatory Associate ensures internal collaboration and connectivity for all policies, standards, and trainings. In this role, you will partner with contacts to assist with compliance and customer specification issues, and work closely with the location to coordinate and plan programs under food safety, quality, and regulatory areas.

Responsibilities

• Perform inspection of finished or in-process goods, analyze data, and identify trends in defects or errors.
• Conduct root cause analysis for defects, nonconformities, or other quality failures.
• Coordinate department functions, including continuous improvement processes, compliance to audits, and assisting with customer specifications and quality issues.
• Ensure environmental health and safety training and new procedure implementation are executed and completed timely and accurately.
• Assist with related training development and scheduling.
• Provide training, coaching, and mentoring to team members.
• Plan, coordinate, and direct all regulatory compliance, laboratory, food and feed safety, and quality programs within the location to ensure compliance with customer, supplier, and government requirements.
• Handle basic issues and problems under direct supervision, escalating more complex issues to appropriate staff.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

Skills

• Attention to detail.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Moderate computer skills (word processing, spreadsheets, and database navigation).
• SAP experience.
• Validated change management in an industrial setting.
• Experience in leading cross-functional teams.