QA Lead - Onsite, 1st Shift, Quality & Compliance

Oberto Sausage Company; Kent (WA); Hybrid; USD 31,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent benefits including medical,

401K Plan with company match

Quarterly performance incentive

Paid holidays and time off

Onsite fitness center

Job summary

Oberto Snacks in Kent, WA is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead for the 1st shift. This onsite role focuses on managing nonconforming inventory, conducting testing, and ensuring compliance with customer, company, and regulatory requirements to protect product quality.

The position requires HACCP certification and 2+ years in QA leadership within a USDA/FDA environment. You will drive audits, oversee QA programs, and mentor QA technicians to uphold Oberto’s quality standards.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in food science or related field preferred, or equivalent experience.
• HACCP Certified
• Internal Auditor Trained preferred.
• 2+ years of Food Safety, Quality Control, Quality Assurance or other regulatory related leadership experience within a USDA or FDA environment.
• Experience implementing and operating GFSI programs (BRC, SQF, etc.) in a food processing environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide oversight, development and maintenance of quality programs/certifications, systems, processes, and procedures.
• Ensure compliance with policies so that the performance and quality of services conform to established standards and agency guidelines.
• Provides expertise and guidance in interpreting policies, regulatory and/or governmental regulations, and agency guidelines to assure compliance or certification requirements such as: Kosher, organic, RFA, FT, etc.
• Works directly with operating entities to provide process analyses oversight on a continuing basis to enforce requirements and meet guidelines.
• Leads audit and inspection preparation, resolution of audit and inspection findings and liaises with auditing groups and inspectors through all stages of the audits (including food safety & quality programs, SQF, FAT, ISO, appliance UL, Third Party audits, etc.)
• Coordinates legal requests in support of government investigations or litigations.
• Ensure the quality assurance programs and policies are maintained and modified regularly.
• Facilitates uniform standards worldwide and enables best practice sharing, thereby fostering the achievement of the company’s mission globally.
• Assures that nonconforming product is addressed in a timely manner.
• Participates in and investigates vendor and/or customer complaints on existing products and non-conformance issues.
• Provides technical and process direction to Manufacturing and Quality Assurance.
• Analyze data to identify areas for improvement in the quality system.
• Participates in cross-functional product teams as the representative for Quality.
• Draft quality assurance policies, procedures, and forms. Interpret and implement quality assurance standards.
• Execute programs, correspond effectively, forecast, and respond to problems to minimalize product deviations from established standards.
• Evaluate adequacy of quality assurance standards.
• Participates in other plant teams and programs such as HACCP Team, SQF Team, and others as assigned.
• Monitors Quality Plan, Product Hold, and implements changes to improve operating efficiency.
• Develops, justifies, and implements manufacturing QA process improvements.
• Compiles and analyzes test information and QA metrics to determine operating efficiency of process or equipment and to diagnose malfunctions.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Skills

Quality mindset

Regulatory awareness

Auditing

Education

Bachelor's degree in food science or related

Tools

GFSI programs

Job description

Oberto Snacks in Kent, WA is seeking a Quality Assurance Lead for the 1st shift. This onsite role focuses on managing nonconforming inventory, conducting testing, and ensuring compliance with customer, company, and regulatory requirements to protect product quality.

The position requires HACCP certification and 2+ years in QA leadership within a USDA/FDA environment. You will drive audits, oversee QA programs, and mentor QA technicians to uphold Oberto’s quality standards.