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Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in food safety, quality management, and compliance, with a strong focus on SQF, GMP, HACCP, and USDA certification programs. Proven ability to lead quality teams, manage audits, and drive continuous improvement in quality KPIs across multiple sites.
Highest-signal resume keywords
SQF CertificationHACCP CertificationFood Safety ComplianceQuality Management SystemsCAPA and Root Cause Analysis
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Hard Skills
Quality AssuranceFood SafetyRegulatory ComplianceQuality ControlKPI TrackingRoot Cause AnalysisInternal AuditsCorrective ActionsPackaging ComplianceLean Six Sigma
Soft Skills
Cross-Functional CollaborationLeadershipProblem SolvingCustomer Relationship ManagementCommunication
Certifications & Qualifications
SQF PractitionerHACCP Certification
Industry Keywords
Food Manufacturing3PLDistributionGMPUSDA OrganicFSMATemperature-Controlled DistributionQuality KPIsSanitation ProgramsPest Control
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Own service quality, food safety, and customer compliance across all sites
- Lead SQF, GMP, HACCP, and USDA certification programs
- Manage readiness for certification, regulatory, and customer audits
- Oversee internal audits, inspections, findings, and corrective actions
- Drive CAPA, root cause analysis, and effectiveness checks
- Ensure compliance with customer requirements for packaging, labeling, barcoding, palletization, and documentation
- Investigate and resolve customer quality inquiries and complaints
- Track quality KPIs and performance improvements
- Provide dotted-line quality leadership and guidance to site Quality teams
- Maintain traceability, mock recall, sanitation, and pest control programs
- Partner across teams to embed quality standards into training, operations, new site launches, and customer onboarding
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, Engineering, or a related field preferred
- Minimum 8 years of quality, food safety, or compliance experience in warehousing, distribution, 3PL, food manufacturing, or similar environments
- Strong knowledge of SQF, GMP, HACCP, USDA Organic certification, and FSMA requirements
- SQF Practitioner and HACCP certification preferred, must obtain within 6 months of hire date
- Experience leading audits, inspections, CAPA, and root cause analysis
- Knowledge of retailer and customer compliance requirements
- Experience leading quality teams across multiple sites through influence
- Experience tracking and reporting quality and compliance KPIs
- Strong cross-functional partnership skills across with customer-facing teams
- Experience in automated, high-volume, or temperature-controlled food-grade distribution preferred
- Familiarity with quality management systems, Lean, or Six Sigma preferred
- Valid driver’s license
- Ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations
- Ability to walk/stand for extended periods, climb stairs/ladders, and tolerate warehouse environmental conditions (temperature variations, noise, etc.)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Travel could be up to 50% of the time
- Valid driver’s license and ability to drive and/or fly to client and other customer locations
- Employee-owned credit card expenses reimbursed on a bi-weekly basis
