Food Safety & Quality Assurance Specialist

Thistle; Burlington (NJ); On-site; USD 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

Thistle is hiring a Food Safety & Quality Associate (FSQA Associate) in our Quality Assurance team. The role ensures products meet safety and quality standards, maintaining calibrations, monitoring equipment, and identifying QC improvements.

You will support day-to-day food safety checks, train receiving and production teams, and collaborate with QA leads to uphold preventive controls and regulatory requirements. This position emphasizes strong record keeping and internal auditing.

Qualifications

• Follow and implement GMPs in daily operations.
• Train receiving teams on food safety and quality control procedures.
• Support QA/QC processes in adherence to preventive controls.

Responsibilities

• Follow and implement GMPs.
• Train receiving teams on food safety and quality control procedures.
• Support Culinary QCs/leads in day-to-day food safety quality checks in adherence to preventive controls.
• Work closely with production line QCs/leads to ensure complete and accurate record keeping.
• Support production QCs/leads in day-to-day food safety quality checks and in adherence to preventive controls.
• Train production teams on food safety and quality control procedures.
• Assist with training, instruction, and support on all manufacturing equipment.
• Work closely with the sanitation team to implement the Master Sanitation Program.
• Verify adherence to Preventive Controls, Processing Parameters, CCPs, Allergen, and Sanitation programs.
• Ensure Quality Management Systems and Food Safety programs comply with regulatory requirements and 3rd party standards.
• Ensure allergen program, allergen declaration per recipe, and labeling requirements are met.
• Conduct internal audits to monitor food safety quality, processes, facilities, and systems.
• Submit complete and accurate audit reports within established timelines.
• Monitor and verify day-to-day QA and Food Safety records.
• Help build out an internal auditing process & certification program.
• Conduct pre-operational line inspections and residual swabs.
• Calibrate critical equipment- thermometers, pH meters, scales, etc.
• Oversee Sanitation and environmental testing program.

Job description

Thistle is hiring a Food Safety & Quality Associate (FSQA Associate) in our Quality Assurance team. The role ensures products meet safety and quality standards, maintaining calibrations, monitoring equipment, and identifying QC improvements.

You will support day-to-day food safety checks, train receiving and production teams, and collaborate with QA leads to uphold preventive controls and regulatory requirements. This position emphasizes strong record keeping and internal auditing.