Job Title: Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior – Retail Packaging
Location: Seattle, WA – Onsite preferred; remote considered for exceptional candidates
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior with a strong background in retail packaging, packaging quality, supplier quality, and material science. This role supports packaging innovation, sustainability initiatives, product safety, quality programs, supplier performance, and packaging specifications.
Key Responsibilities
• Apply technical packaging knowledge across food-contact and non-food-contact packaging materials.
• Support testing, product assessments, supplier assessments, packaging specifications, and quality programs.
• Analyze product and supplier quality signals, audit findings, metrics, field feedback, and regulatory information.
• Identify quality trends and lead investigations and resolution of packaging-related issues.
• Develop and implement packaging quality programs, product standards, and supplier quality requirements.
• Partner with suppliers and cross-functional/global teams to support new packaging initiatives and operating practices.
• Support manufacturing and process capability assessments.
• Ensure packaging products meet applicable product safety, quality, and compliance requirements.
Required Qualifications
• 3–5+ years of retail packaging, packaging QA, supplier quality, or materials-focused quality experience.
• Strong packaging/material science knowledge with emphasis on plastics, pulp, and paper.
• Experience with food-contact packaging, disposable cups, lids, paper, plastics, compostable fiber, and related materials.
• Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards.
• Experience performing manufacturer, supplier, or product quality audits.
• Knowledge of HACCP, GMP, ISO, GFSI, and/or BRC-compliant quality management systems.
• Experience reviewing information required for product safety and quality compliance.
• Strong communication, collaboration, problem-solving, and attention to detail.
• Microsoft Office proficiency.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred; equivalent professional experience considered.
Packaging Materials Experience
Preferred experience with:
• Poly-coated paperboard / hot cups
• Polypropylene (PP) cups and lids
• PLA and PHA
• Molded pulp/fiber
• Corrugated and containerboard
• Disposable utensils and related packaging
Nice to Have
• Lean Six Sigma
• Smartsheet
• Manufacturing/process capability experience