Sr. Supply Quality Specialist

Reser's Fine Foods•Beaverton, OR

8d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Senior Supply Quality Specialist provides support to the Corporate and Plant Food Safety and Quality teams for all of Reser’s Fine Foods, Linares and Don Pancho facilities. The role owns creating and maintaining corporate food safety procedures, food fraud reviews ingredient specifications, performing ingredient food safety approvals, food safety audits for internal, co-manufacturers, and supplier facilities and maintaining the compliance to the food safety vendor approval program.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Food Science or a related field is required
HACCP or PCQI certification is required.
Requires in depth knowledge of food and safety regulations and food processing.
Ability to work independently without close supervision, possesses good judgement, decisiveness, and interpersonal skills. Comfortable with ambiguity and problem solving.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Attention to detail but able to work quickly while tracking multiple priorities and meet established deadlines.

Nice To Haves

a minimum of 5 years Food Science experience is preferred.
Bilingual in English and Spanish is preferred.

Responsibilities

Critically evaluate vendor ingredient specifications and food safety practices for compliance with federal food safety requirements such as: FDA Seafood HACCP, USDA Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point Systems, and Food Safety Modernization Act, as well as review 3rd party audits such as SQF and BRC.
Perform and document food safety risk analysis of vendor documentation to ensure all ingredients are properly ranked by risk category and vetted for use in production, in a timely manner.
Perform food fraud risk assessment on all RFF ingredient
Create and maintain ingredient specifications based on food safety and quality assurance attributes.
Assist purchasing and R&D in the sourcing of new & current ingredients.
Assist in approving ingredient substitutions by performing food safety and regulatory comparisons with the assistance of Food Safety, Quality Assurance, Regulatory, Purchasing, and R&D.
Assist in approving shelf-life extensions for ingredients with the assistance of Purchasing, R&D, and Director of Food Safety.
Assist the Technical Compliance Manager with projects as needed.
Develop and implement best practices for continuous improvement of the Supplier Management Program
Writing and reviewing corporate food safety procedures.
Reviewing corrective actions provided by vendors when quality or food safety incidents occur.
Perform general duties such as ordering supplies and maintaining records.