Quality Assurance/Quality Control Specialist - Tasty Brands SK

**Tasty Brands **is a well-established, fast growing national company that is focused on providing great tasting, nutritious food for K12 school foodservice customers and private brands of selected retailers. With a focus on collaboration, best practices, and continuous improvement, we are looking for people who want to join us for a long career and be part of a great success story. Our most successful people are self-starters, work well in collaboration with others, see the big picture and like to win.

We have an outstanding team of motivated professionals who work well together in a fun and team spirit type atmosphere. Our mission is driven by our core values – urgency, accountability, proactivity, teamwork, and integrity. We are looking for the next “great fit” to join our growing team!

Position Overview:

We are looking for a QA/QC Specialistwho is ambitious, a team-player, willing to learn, and whose passion is food in the ever-evolving manufacturing industry. Main responsibilities will include ensuring quality and food safety standards are met for food, beverage, ingredients, and supply items co-manufactured and co-packed by our suppliers through document verifications and periodic facility audits. This includes developing a risk-based maintenance electronic and physical audit scheme in collaboration with the rest of the QA/QC (Quality Assurance and Quality Control) team and working on projects to improve our safety and quality assessment process.

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible to lead the supplier approval program at Tasty Brands co-manufacturing and co-packaging facilities for compliance to QA/QC policies and standards.
• Work along-side multiple departments with all aspects of product roll-out and compliance checks including sourcing, production runs, facility safety, training, and materials.
• Planning, execution, and evaluation of projects while maintaining food safety and regulatory requirements specific to the menu development.
• Support product development ideations for individual brand tastings.
• Define safety compliance markers for new and/or existing products though laboratory resources (shelf life, micro analysis markers, storage guidelines, etc.).
• Responsible for resolution of technical safety issues and complaint/comment feedback that arise during the development, production, handling, or product performance.
• Document audit report in a timely fashion and be responsible for follow up to drive risk reduction.
• Partner with QA/QC to define programs and strategies to reduce risks with products.

Skills Required:

• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in food production and processing; thorough knowledge of food safety standards, HAACP, and Serve Safe Certification; basic culinary knowledge related to equipment and technical skills
• Knowledge of food production and processing; thorough knowledge of food safety standards, HAACP, and Serve Safe Certification; basic culinary knowledge related to equipment and technical skills
• Auditing/consulting experience or familiar with these processes (Department of Health audits, FSSC, AIB, etc.)
• Demonstrated leadership ability, with proven ability to influence and drive constructive change across multiple organizations/multiple levels
• Strong bias for action, ability to see opportunities/risks early and take appropriate actions
• Highly organized and self-motivated. Passion for auditing.
• Ability to work independently and to travel up to 40% of the time (Nation-wide)
• Understanding of production equipment and processing services
• Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other basis prohibited by federal, state or local laws.

****This position is not remote or hybrid - LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

You should be proficient in:

• Quality Inspection Experience
• Quality Control Data Analysis
• Process Development