Food Safety & Quality Assurance Specialist
About The Position
Eden Foods seeks a full-time food safety and quality compliance staff member for its Operations Department in Clinton, Michigan. The role works with the Quality, Safety, & Compliance (QSC) team and other departments to support food quality, safety, food defense, certification, and regulatory compliance for Eden food items. The position involves maintaining documentation, SOPs, and TraceGains data; assessing suppliers, ingredients, food-contact surfaces, and packaging; and supporting relationships with suppliers, certifiers, auditors, customers, and government agencies. The specialist helps ensure that foods and packaging meet applicable quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements, while avoiding genetically engineered items and derivatives, irradiated items, toxic chemicals, additives, and contamination. Responsibilities also include responding to internal and public questions, maintaining import and export regulatory documentation, managing organic transaction documents and export paperwork, supplying product documentation to Sales and customers, assisting with customer issues, monitoring industry and regulatory developments, attending authorized training, traveling to supplier facilities for inspections, and assisting with label reviews and submissions.
Requirements
- Education and experience sufficient to fulfill the assigned responsibilities.
- A BS/BA in Food Science, Engineering, Microbiology, Biology, or another life science, or equivalent professional experience.
- Equivalent experience may include three years of in-plant food industry responsibility in production QC.
- Experience with HACCP and/or FSMA.
- Good judgment in handling proprietary and confidential information.
- Professional-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work as a team player.
- Proficient computer skills and willingness to learn the Company's systems.
- Sound moral and ethical professional practices.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of organic foods, GMOs, agriculture, and food manufacturing and handling.
Responsibilities
- Work with the QSC team and other departments to maintain documentation, SOPs, and TraceGains data that comply with food quality, safety, and food defense programs.
- 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 contamination and ensure food safety, protection, certification, and documentation.
- Study goods and packaging materials and their backgrounds to determine applicable quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Receive and help answer internal and public questions about natural, organic, and non-GMO food and QSC issues.
- Maintain documentation supporting regulatory requirements for imported and exported items.
- Manage organic transaction documents and export paperwork from the organic certifier for international customers.
- Provide specification sheets, responses to food safety questions, certificates of analysis, and other product quality documentation for Sales, customers, and TraceGains.
- Assist the QSC team and the Company with customer quality and food safety issues.
- Remain current on industry and regulatory developments that may affect the Company, its food items, and QSC issues.
- Attend authorized training concerning food safety and regulatory compliance.
- Travel to supplier facilities for Company, third-party, and regulatory inspections.
- Assist with label reviews and submissions for FDA, Departments of Agriculture, organic, and non-GMO regulatory compliance.
- Perform other duties as assigned by a supervisor or Eden management.
Benefits
- The posting describes the position as an excellent career opportunity.
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Job Type
Full-time
