Food Safety & Quality Assurance Specialist

Plat Du Jour Inc; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

Plat du Jour, a precision meal platform, is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Assurance Technician to uphold food safety and product quality across prep, production, packaging, and fulfillment. You will monitor logs, enforce GMPs, and support audits in a fast-paced facility.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of QA/food safety experience, strong attention to detail, and knowledge of HACCP standards. FDA/USDA familiarity and relevant certification are preferred.

Qualifications

• 2+ years of experience in quality assurance, food safety, or production compliance in a food manufacturing setting.
• Strong understanding of GMPs, HACCP, allergen control, sanitation, and food safety documentation.
• Experience maintaining QA logs, production records, and compliance documentation.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to enforce standards in real time.
• Comfortable working cross-functionally across multiple departments and production environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to enforce standards clearly and professionally.
• Highly organized, process-oriented, and confident in a fast-paced production setting.
• Knowledge of FDA / USDA food safety standards preferred.
• HACCP certification or food safety certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Monitor daily production activities across prep, cook, packaging, and fulfillment to ensure compliance with food safety and quality standards.
• Maintain and verify all food safety documentation including temperature logs, cooling logs, sanitation logs, receiving logs, and production QA records.
• Enforce GMPs across all departments including hygiene, uniform compliance, handwashing, sanitation, and facility discipline.
• Conduct routine floor checks to ensure operational compliance with food safety, sanitation, and quality standards.
• Monitor and maintain allergen control procedures including segregation, labeling, handling, and changeover verification.
• Verify recipe adherence, portion consistency, plating/packaging specifications, labeling accuracy, and finished product quality.
• Ensure all products meet established quality standards for appearance, weight, portioning, packaging integrity, and presentation.
• Perform in-process QA checks throughout production and packaging to identify and correct deviations in real time.
• Maintain production QA logs and verify compliance with batch specifications and product standards.
• Support traceability procedures including lot tracking, product dating, and ingredient documentation.
• Verify proper product labeling including allergens, dating, SKU accuracy, and packaging compliance.
• Partner with production leadership to identify quality issues, enforce corrective actions, and drive process improvement.
• Support internal food safety audits, GMP audits, and readiness for third-party inspections.
• Assist in maintaining HACCP documentation, SOP compliance, and food safety program execution.
• Escalate food safety, quality, or compliance concerns immediately to leadership.

Skills

Quality assurance

Food safety

Production compliance

GMPs

HACCP

Documentation

Attention to detail

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

FDA/USDA knowledge

Job description

Plat du Jour, a precision meal platform, is seeking a detail-oriented Quality Assurance Technician to uphold food safety and product quality across prep, production, packaging, and fulfillment. You will monitor logs, enforce GMPs, and support audits in a fast-paced facility.

The ideal candidate has 2+ years of QA/food safety experience, strong attention to detail, and knowledge of HACCP standards. FDA/USDA familiarity and relevant certification are preferred.