Quality Assurance Associate (food or beverage manufacturing QA)

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity for advancement
• Training & development

Role: Quality Assurance Associate (food or beverage manufacturing QA)
Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid Tuesday, Thursday, the third day is flexible based)
Duration: 12+ Months

Job description
"Implementing and auditing the manufacturing quality strategy, food safety, process and program quality and regulatory compliance to ensure the continuous supply of safe, wholesome and premium quality products to customers

Top Candidate Skills & How Applied Years of Experience
1 | Skill: Food and Quality Safety Background
Beverage preferred, open to any exp | 2+
2 | Skill: growth mindset (lead with this in sourcing)
Ability to pivot between tasks and need of the business 2+
3 | Skill: organizational skills 2+

Degree or certifications required?:

• Bachelors degree in science (food science, biology) is required

Years of Experience:

• 2+ - Bachelors
• 3+ - Associates

Technology requirements:

• Microsoft suite
• Excel proficiency or organization skills
• Strong task management skills

Required background - Skills

• Having a growth mindset
• Innovative
• Has passion
• Food/product safety
• Tech savvy
• Ability to work in a diverse group
• Strong communication skills

Daily Responsibilities:

• Go into the box to look through the complaints coming in, monitor and escalate where needed
• Navigating emails
• Going into the workspace to see the issues submitted by the baristas on the product issues
• Organizing tickets
• Go into the systems to pull the list of suppliers to pinpoint who needs help
• Managing suppliers backend and documentation
• Subject matter experts collaboration (SME)
• Follow up on task completion

Interaction level with team:

• Highly collaborative with cross functional teams
• Working within a highly matrixed environment

Nice-to-Haves:

• If they have experience addressing the food/safety
• Entilex or supplier management program experience
• If they came from a vitamins/ pharm area
• PCQI training from FDA is very nice to have
• Food Safety training, HACCP

Flexible work from home options available.