FSQA Lead: Quality, Compliance & Audits

Trident Seafoods; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 92,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Trident Seafoods in Anacortes is seeking an Assistant FSQA Manager to lead site food safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness. You will work with the FSQA Manager to ensure finished products meet specifications and customer expectations while supporting continuous improvement of QA programs.

This role requires at least 4 years of supervisory QA experience in food production, a high school diploma (or equivalent), a bachelor’s in food science or related field, HACCP

Qualifications

• Minimum of 4 years of supervisory experience in Quality Assurance, preferably in food production or the seafood industry.
• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Bachelor's degree in food science, Biological Sciences, or related field.
• HACCP certification.
• SAP experience.
• Experience supporting regulatory, customer, third-party, or GFSI-recognized audits such as BRC, BAP, SQF, USDC, FDA, or state health authority audits.

Responsibilities

• Supervises, coaches, and supports Quality Assurance team members in conjunction with the FSQA Manager, including daily direction, priority setting, training reinforcement, and coverage support.
• Ensures shipped products meet specifications, food safety requirements, customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and company standards.
• Performs and documents audits to monitor GMPs, food safety procedures, sanitation standards, pest control expectations, labeling requirements, and internal FSQA programs.
• Verifies critical control points (CCPs), prerequisite programs, process controls, finished product quality, and other key food safety or quality indicators; escalates deviations.
• Maintains a strong working understanding of plant operations and integrates FSQA requirements with production, sanitation, maintenance, warehousing, and shipping activities.
• Monitors and reports site quality performance, service performance, complaint trends, Cost of Poor Quality (COPQ), First Pass Quality (FPQ), and other assigned risk indicators.
• Supports Product Incident Notification (PIN) awareness, containment, documentation, and cross-functional coordination when food safety, legality, authenticity, or quality risks are identified.
• Participates in internal, regulatory, third-party, and customer audits; documents findings, gathers objective evidence, supports root cause analysis, and verifies completion of corrective and preventive actions.
• Trains and oversees site personnel to promote adherence to department protocols, company standards, HACCP plans, food safety plans, sanitation requirements, and audit readiness expectations.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Leadership

MS Excel

HACCP knowledge

Audit readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in food science or related field

High school diploma or equivalent

HACCP certification

Tools

SAP experience

Job description

Trident Seafoods in Anacortes is seeking an Assistant FSQA Manager to lead site food safety, quality, regulatory compliance, and audit readiness. You will work with the FSQA Manager to ensure finished products meet specifications and customer expectations while supporting continuous improvement of QA programs.

This role requires at least 4 years of supervisory QA experience in food production, a high school diploma (or equivalent), a bachelor’s in food science or related field, HACCP