Food Quality, Safety & Compliance Associate
Clinton, Michigan•Full-time
About the Job
Eden Foods – Clinton, Michigan (Lenawee County) seeks full-time Food Safety and Quality Compliance staff member. Experience, reliability, and willingness to learn needed. Teamwork and communication skills necessary. Excellent career opportunity. Good work and good people.
Email resume to HR employment@edenfoods.com
Job Description:
Operations Department
Position: Food Quality, Safety, & Compliance Associate
Reports to: Quality & Food Safety Manager
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Work with the Company’s Quality, Safety, & Compliance (QSC) team and other Departments to maintain documentation, SOPs, and TraceGains data that comply with food quality, safety, and food defense programs for Eden food items.
- Help maintain and improve relationships with suppliers, certifiers, auditors, customers, and government agencies.
- Assess supplier companies and personnel, ingredients, food contact surfaces, and packaging materials to minimize food contamination and ensure food safety, protection, certification, and documentation for the natural foods sold by the Company.
- Genetically engineered items (GMOs) and their derivatives, as well as irradiated items, must be avoided. The same applies to toxic chemicals, additives, and contamination of the foods we sell by them.
- Study the goods and packaging materials and their backgrounds to evaluate which quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements apply. Pure, delicious food is the goal.
- Receive and help facilitate answering questions from within the company and from the public about natural, organic, and non-GMO food, as well as QSC issues as they arise.
- Maintain documentation supporting the regulatory requirements for the Company's imported and exported items. Manage the organic transaction documents and export paperwork from the organic certifier for international customers.
- Provide the documentation required, including specification sheets, food safety questions, certificates of analysis, and other product quality documentation for the Sales Department, customers, and TraceGains.
- Assist the QSC team and the Company with customer quality and food safety issues.
- Remain current about industry and regulatory developments that may affect the Company, its food items, and QSC issues. Attend authorized training(s) concerning food safety and regulatory compliance issues.
- Travel to supplier facilities for the Company, third-party, and regulatory inspections.
- Assist in label reviews and submissions for FDA, Departments of Agriculture, organic, and non-GMO regulatory compliance.
Job Requirements:
- Education and experience sufficient to fulfill the responsibilities assigned. BS/BA in Food Science, Engineering, Microbiology, Biology, or other life sciences. Equivalent professional experience, such as 3 years of in-plant food industry responsibility in production QC. Experience with HACCP and/or FSMA. Knowledge of organic, GMOs, agriculture, and food manufacturing and handling is valuable.
- Good judgment in handling proprietary and confidential information.
- Professional-level written and verbal communication skills.
- Being a team player.
- Proficient computer skills and willingness to learn systems used by the Company.
- Sound moral and ethical professional practices.
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive or a complete explanation of duties. Employees are required to perform duties as assigned by their supervisor or Eden management. Eden reserves the right to modify job duties and responsibilities as needed. This job description does not constitute a written or implied contract of employment.
About Eden Foods
Eden Foods is the senior natural and organic food company in North America. It remains an independent manufacturer of dry grocery organic food, focused on the relationships necessary to sustain them. Whole grain, beans, and macrobiotic Japanese traditional foods have been core to its product line since 1968.
Over 93% of Eden foods are sold by natural food stores, co-ops, and other retail outlets via traditional natural and grocery distribution channels. The internet, Eden’s website, wholesale sales, and employee purchases make up the remainder.
Eden Foods' two warehouses – in Clinton, Michigan and Fremont, California – handle all the food we distribute.
Eden Foods Goals
1) Provide the most pure, high quality, life-supporting food and accurate information about them, their uses and benefits.
2) Creation and maintenance of a healthy, respectful, challenging, and rewarding environment for people involved with the Company.
3) Development of the ability to produce and disseminate the foodstuffs and information we create and handle.
4) Cultivate sound relationships with like minded people and organizations involved in like pursuits.
5) Cultivate adaptability to changes in economic, social, and environmental conditions to allow Eden Foods the opportunity to survive long term.
6) Have a strong, positive impact on farming and food processing practices used in the world.
7) To contribute to peaceful development of life on Earth.
Eden Foods is a principled natural food company and developing organization. Quality people of good character is what keeps us going and growing. We seek to contribute to the realization of a better world. Eden Foods is an excellent career opportunity.
Over 93% of Eden foods are sold by natural food stores, co-ops, and other retail outlets via traditional natural and grocery distribution channels. The internet, Eden’s website, wholesale sales, and employee purchases make up the remainder.
Eden Foods' two warehouses – in Clinton, Michigan and Fremont, California – handle all the food we distribute.
Eden Foods Goals
1) Provide the most pure, high quality, life-supporting food and accurate information about them, their uses and benefits.
2) Creation and maintenance of a healthy, respectful, challenging, and rewarding environment for people involved with the Company.
3) Development of the ability to produce and disseminate the foodstuffs and information we create and handle.
4) Cultivate sound relationships with like minded people and organizations involved in like pursuits.
5) Cultivate adaptability to changes in economic, social, and environmental conditions to allow Eden Foods the opportunity to survive long term.
6) Have a strong, positive impact on farming and food processing practices used in the world.
7) To contribute to peaceful development of life on Earth.
Eden Foods is a principled natural food company and developing organization. Quality people of good character is what keeps us going and growing. We seek to contribute to the realization of a better world. Eden Foods is an excellent career opportunity.