Benefits:

Competitive salary

Opportunity for advancement

Training & development

Role: Advisor – Food Safety & Quality (Retail Packaging) Location: Seattle, WA - Onsite 4 Days/Week

Job Description

We are seeking a Food Safety & Quality Advisor with experience in packaging materials and supplier quality to support a high-visibility retail packaging program.

This role partners closely with packaging engineering, supplier quality teams, and cross-functional partners to ensure the safety, compliance, and quality of customer-facing packaging products.

The position is ideal for professionals with experience in packaging engineering, supplier quality, food safety, or materials science, particularly within consumer products, food & beverage, or retail packaging environments

Top Skills Needed Technical Packaging - 2+ Yrs Communication - Written and Verbal, ability to summarize, speak concisely, break down complex situations into manageable-sized info - 2+ Yrs Quick ramp-up time, ability to adapt, agility - 1+ Yrs

Years of experience:

3-5 years of experience

Technology requirements:

Microsoft Office Suite

Smartsheet

ServiceNow

Quality Management System knowledge

Required background & Skills

Strong packaging and material science background with emphasis in plastics, pulp, and paper (3-5 years)

Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards or manufacturer and supplier quality systems and product quality auditing with an emphasis on materials (3-5 years)

Progressive experience managing the development and review of information required to comply with product safety and quality (3-5 years)

Quality Management System knowledge, including HACCP, GMPs, ISO, GFSI, and BRC-compliant standards. Basic understanding of Food Safety and Quality GFSI requirements.

Daily Responsibilities:

Will work with the packaging engineer, ideally has a background in packaging

Compliance Tracking

Apply in-depth technical knowledge to projects and gather insights (i.e., testing, supplier and product assessment) across a wide variety of single-use packaging materials/items including but not limited to: poly-coated paperboard (hot cups), polypropylene PP (cups and lids), polylactic acid PLA, poly-hydroxy alkanoic acids PHA, molded pulp, corrugate, containerboard, utensils, etc.

Proactively analyze product and supplier quality signals, metrics, audit data, customer feedback, regulators, and workgroup input.

Identify trends and lead the investigation and resolution of packaging-related concerns from regulators, retail stores, field QA partners, or internal and external customers.

Interface and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams, including internationally based partners, to deliver results within demanding timelines.

Acts as a Retail Food Packaging Product Safety and Quality system expert in the development of new packaging initiatives or operating practices.

Interaction level with team:

Highly interactive, will partner with varying partner teams

Nice-to-Haves:

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