Food Safety & Quality Assurance (FSQA) Technician

Step into a day where product integrity starts with you

From your first walk-through of the plant to your final report, you are the on-site guardian of quality and food safety. You’ll rotate between the floor and your desk, checking processes against standards, coaching teammates, and keeping leadership informed—so every raw ingredient, package, and finished product meets specification and regulation.

What you’ll tackle each day

• Verify and document compliance to GMPs, SQF, and sanitation standards through routine monitoring, trending, and clear reporting.
• Champion plant safety and environmental programs, modeling 200% Safety Accountability—ensuring safety for oneself and others.
• Own the upkeep of controlled documents, including quality and food safety manuals.
• Deliver engaging training for plant teams on procedures, programs, and best practices.
• Partner with the Quality Manager on system development and preparation for internal/external audits; participate in audit execution and follow-up.
• Provide on-the-floor technical support to production, helping troubleshoot process and product quality questions.
• Lead consumer complaint investigations end-to-end, driving corrective and preventive actions and verifying effectiveness.
• Oversee adherence to the HACCP plan—monitoring, verification, and documentation.
• Coordinate the storage, handling, disposition, and rework of held materials and products.
• Proactively communicate quality assurance and sanitation issues to Leadership, escalating risks and proposing solutions.
• Serve as backup leader when the Department Quality Manager is away, providing supervisory support to keep operations on track.

What you bring

• Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Science, or a related field preferred.
• At least one year in a food manufacturing setting with exposure to plant floor operations.
• Training or knowledge in Food Safety, HACCP, and SQF preferred.
• Comfort with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel to document, analyze, and present findings.
• Sharp analytical judgment with sound decision-making under time pressure.
• Ability to prioritize and respond with urgency when the situation demands it.
• Clear, concise written and verbal communication.
• Meticulous, organized, dependable, and resourceful approach to work.
• Thrives both independently and as part of a cross-functional team.

Tools and methods you’ll use

HACCP and SQF frameworks, GMP checklists, sanitation verification, audit readiness tools, complaint/CAPA workflows, and the Microsoft Office suite for documentation and analysis.