Benefits:

Competitive salary

Opportunity for advancement

Training & development

Job Title: Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior – Retail Packaging

Location: Seattle, WA – Onsite preferred; remote considered for exceptional candidates

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior with a strong background in retail packaging, packaging quality, supplier quality, and material science. This role supports packaging innovation, sustainability initiatives, product safety, quality programs, supplier performance, and packaging specifications.

Key Responsibilities

• Apply technical packaging knowledge across food-contact and non-food-contact packaging materials. • Support testing, product assessments, supplier assessments, packaging specifications, and quality programs. • Analyze product and supplier quality signals, audit findings, metrics, field feedback, and regulatory information. • Identify quality trends and lead investigations and resolution of packaging-related issues. • Develop and implement packaging quality programs, product standards, and supplier quality requirements. • Partner with suppliers and cross-functional/global teams to support new packaging initiatives and operating practices. • Support manufacturing and process capability assessments. • Ensure packaging products meet applicable product safety, quality, and compliance requirements.

Required Qualifications

• 3–5+ years of retail packaging, packaging QA, supplier quality, or materials-focused quality experience. • Strong packaging/material science knowledge with emphasis on plastics, pulp, and paper. • Experience with food-contact packaging, disposable cups, lids, paper, plastics, compostable fiber, and related materials. • Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards. • Experience performing manufacturer, supplier, or product quality audits. • Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, ISO, GFSI, and/or BRC-compliant quality management systems. • Experience reviewing information required for product safety and quality compliance. • Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and attention to detail. • Microsoft Office proficiency. • Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent professional experience considered.

Packaging Materials Experience

Preferred experience with: • Poly-coated paperboard / hot cups • Polypropylene (PP) cups and lids • PLA and PHA • Molded pulp/fiber • Corrugated and containerboard • Disposable utensils and related packaging

Nice to Have

• Lean Six Sigma • Smartsheet • Manufacturing/process capability experience