The Senior Quality Assurance Technician will play a key role in developing, implementing, and maintaining the Food Safety and Quality Culture across both seafood and meat operations. This position requires strong leadership, initiative, and a desire to grow within the organization. The ideal candidate will have experience in both seafood and meat processing, and will serve as a backup to the QA Manager for audits, documentation, and training. This role offers a growth path depending on performance and organizational needs.Reports to: Food Safety Quality Assurance ManagerShift: approximately 8am start timeSchedule: Must be flexible to work different schedules and/or weekends when needed Location: Denver, COEssential Duties and Responsibilities:Lead and train production teams in seafood and meat quality, food safety, cleaning/sanitation goals and expectations.Inspect receiving process and verify incoming product quality, involving rinsing some species of fish, conduct daily random reviews of product storage and best-by dates.Generate daily reports for key team members.Identify improvement opportunities and implement corrective actions including root cause evaluations, coaching, training, CAPA closures, and process improvements.Training new hires as well as seasoned employees in food quality standards, company, customer specifications, and food safety processes.Lead the weekly Quality MeetingAdapt to rapidly changing situations and multitask effectively.Serve as point of contact for all quality issues.Review customer product returns and collaborate with teams to validate, reduce, and eliminate issues.Act as backup to the FSQA Manager when needed, supporting all food safety duties and audit preparations and documents.Review and update SOPs, SSOPs, and specification sheets.Conduct daily quality checks on the production floor.Communicate clearly with production, maintenance, receiving, warehouse, procurement, sales, and other teamsMonitor and enforce GMPs, HACCP, SOPs and SSOPsMaintain clean and organized workspaces aligned with food safety standards.Conduct equipment swab tests and calibrate production equipment as required.Coordinate communication between manufacturing associates and QA personnel.Conduct environmental testing for pathogens.Support document creation and audit readiness for both seafood and meat operations.Other duties as assigned.
