Food Safety & Quality Technical Services Lead

Colorado-Premium-Foods-3; Greeley (CO); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Colorado Premium Foods is seeking a Technical Services Supervisor to provide hands-on support and technical guidance on food safety and quality to TS technicians and operations partners. The role requires in-depth knowledge of Colorado Premium food safety and quality programs, HACCP, BRC systems, and USDA regulations.

You will lead investigations, oversee pre-requisites and sanitation, and collaborate with multiple departments to drive improvements in safety, legality, and product quality.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in a life sciences field and 3 years in food safety or quality assurance in a protein-related industry.
• Strong knowledge of HACCP, GMPs, GFSI, and USDA regulations.
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis and use statistics to control processes.
• Experience with regulatory navigation in the U.S. and cross-functional teamwork.
• Proficient in data collection, action plans, risk assessments, and contingency planning.

Responsibilities

• Supervises TS Technicians and supports plant-wide quality control, process control, raw material quality control, microbiology controls and sanitation efforts.
• Administers all food safety and quality policies, USDA regulations and BRC third party requirements.
• Models and coaches these expectations to other employees. Works with the TS Manager to ensure compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.
• Directs and champion continuous improvements to safety, legality and quality of products and processes.
• Investigates customer/consumer complaints for products manufactured on site using root cause analysis; determine corrective actions and preventative measures.
• Supports maintenance of programs to achieve compliance with international, federal, state, or local regulations as they apply to health, food safety, and labeling requirements.
• Work closely with all departments and clearly communicate food safety and quality objectives with management, production, maintenance, vendors, and outside contractors.
• Manages chemical intervention program including suitability for use, validation, and verification. Manage sanitation program including expectations, monitoring and review of Master Sanitation Schedule.
• Reports food safety and quality issues, corrective actions, and preventative measures to management.
• Ensure basic hygiene training, GMP’s, HACCP, allergen control, food safety and quality requirements are effective in operations, sanitation, maintenance departments and staff.
• Administer pre-requisite programs as required, including but not limited to pest control, plant improvement program, operational methods, maintenance for food safety, sanitation, and personnel practices, etc.
• Ensures staff are trained to ensure the best efficiencies. Lead, development, coach the TS Technicians on the facility’s TS programs.
• Assists in the effective implementation and/or utilization of approved analytical methods to ensure the high quality of raw materials, semi-finished products, finished products and packaging materials.
• Manages regular product review, retention samples and quality assurance monitoring program. Actively supports the pre-operational inspection program, as well as the test and hold program.

Skills

Root cause analysis

Statistics for process control

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

GMPs knowledge

Food safety regulations

Education

Bachelor’s degree in biology, microbiology, chemistry, food science, nutrition or related field

Equivalent relevant experience

Tools

MS Office Suite

Job description

Colorado Premium Foods is seeking a Technical Services Supervisor to provide hands-on support and technical guidance on food safety and quality to TS technicians and operations partners. The role requires in-depth knowledge of Colorado Premium food safety and quality programs, HACCP, BRC systems, and USDA regulations.

You will lead investigations, oversee pre-requisites and sanitation, and collaborate with multiple departments to drive improvements in safety, legality, and product quality.