Senior Quality Assurance Analyst (Food)

Great opportunity to work for a specialty natural ingredients for products for a Senior Quality Assurance Analyst.

Location: Waukegan, IL

Schedule: 1st Shift

Pay: 65-80k

Responsiblities

• Maintain several databases as it applies to finished product labels, ingredient statements.
• Maintain and update customer documentation.
• Drive efficient responses in the Technical Inquiry program supporting requests for product information and documentation.
• Review all customer documentation to confirm compliance with all applicable regulations.
• Upkeep of Tracegains and customer portals
• Assist with dissemination of regulatory information to other departments (e.g., QA, Procurement, Production) and development of any necessary changes.
• Provide support to overall key Food Safety / Quality program efforts such as, BRCGS certification audits, internal GAP assessment audits, facility verification / validation activities, HACCP program, Food Security improvements, etc.

Additional Responsibilities

• Assist in the management of claim programs as well as partnerships with agencies such as Kosher, Organic, Gluten-Free, and others.
• Responsible for finished product specifications updates and approvals
• Support new product initiatives.
• Collaboration with Customer Experience and Regulatory to ensure customers’ COA requirements are properly managed.
• Assist in the validation of processes, equipment, and operating procedures.
• Perform routine document and facility food safety and quality audits.
• Preparing reports, charts, graphs and presentations.
• Working with cross-functional teams to resolve and track implementation of changes.
• Analyze and determine trends in data sets and identify where actions are required based on the data.

Qualifications/Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in Food Science, Quality, Biology, Microbiology, or related technical discipline.
• Minimum of 3-5 years industry experience preferred.