Food Safety Compliance Specialist

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Company Overview

Pulmuone’s mission is a company that creates a healthy future for people and the earth with wholesome foods. Pulmuone Foods USA brands include Nasoya, Wildwood, Emerald Valley Kitchen, Monterey Gourmet Foods, and Cibo Naturals. Pulmuone’s family of brands provide our consumers a wide variety of delicious products that are inspired by contemporary flavor palates and encourage a healthy and sustainable lifestyle. Visit www.pulmuonefoodsusa.com to learn more about the company and brands.

The Quality Assurance Specialist collects, maintains and distributes all documents necessary to ensure conformance to customer requirements; maintains a comprehensive filing system and computer database for all documents to be retained; manages the operation of the document control center to ensure that all users have the latest revision of appropriate documentation in a timely manner. Ensuring that food products are safe, comply with regulatory requirements, and meet both company and customer standards.

Key Outputs

Measurements / Performance Indicators

• Ensuring Compliance with Food Safety Regulations

• Maintain food safety and regulatory compliance. This includes ensuring that food products meet strict legal requirements, are properly labeled, and are safe for consumption

• Check and maintain all COAs that are sent via e-mail and/or attached to daily PO receivers from warehouse.

• Make sure every raw ingredient received into warehouse has a COA. Check each COA against the ingredient spec to be sure testing results are within the ranges set on the raw ingredient spec.

• Review daily Production and QC/QA paperwork and sort it by date and shift for completeness and file once reviewed.

• Return incomplete paperwork.

• Supplier, ingredient Approval

• Make sure all organic ingredients received, and product are approved.

• Send out yearly vendor packets to all suppliers for review in order to keep their “approved” status.

• Finished Product Approval

• New product, formulation form is completed

• Obtain required documents before any IPTR’S can take place

• Scan PO receivers from warehouse and save to file on computer.

• Ensure monthly locker inspections are completed.

• 3rd party approval (Organic, Non-GMO, Vegan, Kosher, Gluten free, and so on)

• Ensure Product are approved by the CB and communicated with the product manager.

• Prepare organic paperwork for yearly 3rd party audit

• Audit Preparation; GFSI/Customer audit

• Ensure that audit document and the on-site audit are ready

• Issue USMCA certificate, and COSTCO USMCA

• Ensure that the approval will be made in timely manner

• Export License/Permit

• Support the Sales and Marketing teams with documentation for exports.

• Customer QA/Regulatory portal Site Management

• Communicate with marketing/sales and customer’s QA to complete the tasks

• Attend weekly Club Core team meeting, Retail Core team meeting, BOM meeting and weekly S&OP meeting,

• Make sure monthly Glass and Brittle plastics audit is conducted on a monthly basis.

• Review all new or revised existing product labels to make sure they are compliant with USDA, FDA, and/or Organic regulations.

• Send out status report once modifications requested by USDA

• Complete label proof inspection form and route for signatures.

• Obtain approval from cross-functional team before releasing production

• Maintain several registers and history of revisions required by SQF.

• Work with QA Head

Skill/Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in microbiology, Food Science, Chemical Engineering or a related field.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience.
• GFSI Audit and QA Regulatory Experience
• Food safety training and certificate programs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

We offer competitive pay and benefits package, including health (~80-90% company paid) for employee and dependents, dental, vision, life insurance, long-term , company match 401K plan, vacation, floating holidays, and company holidays.

Pulmuone is a global, distributed workforce in four countries. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and embrace people with different experiences, strengths, and backgrounds, who share a passion for making a healthier tomorrow for people and the planet with wholesome foods.