Direct Client Advisor – Food Safety & Quality (Retail Packaging)

• We are seeking a Food Safety & Quality Advisor with experience in packaging materials and supplier quality to support a high-visibility retail packaging program.

  This role partners closely with packaging engineering supplier quality teams and cross-functional partners to ensure the safety compliance and quality of customer-facing packaging products.

  The position is ideal for professionals with experience in packaging engineering supplier quality food safety or materials science particularly within consumer products food & beverage or retail packaging environments
  
  Tops Skills Needed

Years experience:

• 3-5 years of experience

Technology requirements:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Smartsheets
• ServiceNow
• Quality Management System knowledge

Required background & Skills

• Strong packaging and material science background with emphasis in plastics pulp and paper (3-5 years)
• Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards or manufacturer and supplier quality system and product quality auditing with an emphasis in materials (3-5 years)
• Progressive experience managing the development and review of information required to comply with product safety and quality (3-5 years)
• Quality Management System knowledge including HACCP GMPs ISO or GFSI and BRC complaint standards. Basic understanding of Food Safety and Quality GFSI requirements.

Daily Responsibilities:

• Will work with packaging engineer ideally has a background with packaging
• Compliance Tracking
• Apply in-depth technical knowledge to projects and gather insights (i.e. testing supplier and product assessment) across a wide variety of single-use packaging materials/items including but not limited to: poly-coated paperboard (hot cups) polypropylene PP (cups and lids) polylactic acid PLA poly-hydroxyalkanoic acids PHA molded pulp corrugate containerboard utensils etc.
• Proactively analyze product and supplier quality signals metrics audit data customer feedback regulator and workgroup input.
• Identify trends and lead investigation and resolution of packaging related concerns from regulators retail stores field QA partners or internal and external customers.
• Interface and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams including internationally based partners to deliver results within demanding timelines.
• Acts as a Retail Food Packaging Product Safety and Quality system expert in the development of new packaging initiatives or operating practices.

Interaction level with team:

• Highly interactive will partner with varying partner teams

Nice-to-Haves:

• Similar experience with their previous roles

Disqualifiers:

• Job hopping (not completing contracts)
• Poorly formatted resume/typos
• Missing must have skills