Quality Specialist, California Natural Color

E. & J. Gallo Winery•Fresno, CA

1d•Onsite

About The Position

As a Quality Specialist 1 at Gallo’s CalColor operation, you’ll play a key role in protecting product integrity and advancing food safety across our Central Valley facilities. This role offers the opportunity to work hands-on with quality systems while partnering with cross-functional teams that are deeply committed to excellence, compliance, and continuous improvement. In this position, you’ll support the development, implementation, and maintenance of quality control and food safety programs that align with corporate standards and regulatory expectations. You’ll help ensure policies, procedures, and systems are consistently applied, while contributing to proactive quality measures, lab analysis, and rapid response to quality non-conformances. You’ll collaborate closely with operations, engineering, and external partners to support audits, root cause and corrective action efforts, and certification programs such as FSSC 22000. Your work will help ensure knowledge transfer across teams, strengthen HACCP and food safety plans, and reinforce a culture of accountability and ownership. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a manufacturing environment, enjoys problem-solving, and values teamwork. You’ll have the chance to influence processes, support food safety initiatives, and contribute to products that meet Gallo’s high standards for quality and safety.

Requirements

Bachelors of Science Degree; OR Associate’s Degree plus 2 years of quality assurance, quality control, food safety, production, operations, winemaking or engineering experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility; OR High School diploma or State-issued equivalency certificate plus 4 years of quality assurance, quality control, food safety, production, operations, winemaking or engineering experience reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Required to travel up to 5% of the time.
Required to be 18 years or older.

Nice To Haves

Bachelors of Science Degree in Food Science, Biology, Biochemistry, Chemistry, Microbiology, Enology or Engineering plus 2 years of quality assurance, quality control, or engineering experience in a manufacturing environment reflecting increasing levels of responsibility.
Experience with food safety, quality systems, or packaging systems.
Project management experience.
Experience reading, analyzing, and interpreting equipment technical manuals, periodicals, professional journals, technical procedures or governmental regulations.
Experience writing business correspondence and inspection procedures.
Experience presenting information and responding to questions from groups of managers, clients, and customers.
Experience auditing processes against internal and external standards.
Experience with Food and Beverage industry.
Basic level use of MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

Responsibilities

Support the development, implementation, and maintenance of quality control and food safety programs.
Ensure policies, procedures, and systems are consistently applied.
Contribute to proactive quality measures, lab analysis, and rapid response to quality non-conformances.
Collaborate with operations, engineering, and external partners to support audits, root cause and corrective action efforts, and certification programs.
Help ensure knowledge transfer across teams.
Strengthen HACCP and food safety plans.
Reinforce a culture of accountability and ownership.