Come join a fast-growing food brand that is revolutionizing what we eat. Ark Foods is a modern-day farming company that creates simple, fresh, and exciting food. From our plant-based veggie bowls to the specialty vegetables that we grow at our farm locations up and down the East Coast, Ark Foods is rethinking modern agriculture from the ground up. You can find our branded products in Whole Foods, Costco, and other leading retailers across the USA.
Overview
Ark Foods is seeking a Food Safety and Quality Assurance Manager to refine and uphold our category leading food safety and quality assurance practices. Our Hackensack, NJ production facility, where we produce our line of fresh cut Veggie Bowls, Fresh Veggie Kits, Chopped Salad Kits, and many other Fresh Cut Veggies is SQF certified. We uphold ourselves to an incredibly high standard of quality and food safety. This role will center around implementing and managing our SQF program, as well as ensuring quality, food safety and necessary specifications for outgoing customer orders.
Key Work Streams
- Oversee day-to-day implementation of SQF, GMP, HACCP
- Ensure proper logging, swabbing, testing, general sanitation, and adherence to strict food safety protocols
- Train team of Spanish-speaking Warehouse Associates around proper food safety practices
- Own and update all food safety related paperwork, logs, standards, and practices
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal health and food safety standards and regulations
- Manage consumer complaint program, identify root causes, take corrective actions as necessary, and complete relevant documentation
- Manage day-to-day relationship with related 3rd parties, such as consultants, agencies, labs
- Design and execute food safety, quality, and shelf-life experiments
- Uphold spec and minimum quality requirements for all finished customer orders
- Collaborate with Operations Team to update and improve production processes in accordance with food safety standards, regulations, and techniques
- Maintain and enforce specifications for current and upcoming products
- Use proper Verification and Validation structures for implementation of products and processes
Requirements
- 1-3 years QA / QC experience in a food manufacturing environment
- Advanced education or related degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Biology is preferred
- Understanding of basic principles for Preventative Controls, familiarity with FDA nutrition regulations as they relate to labeling
- HACCP certified
- Strong working knowledge of Safe Quality Food certification- SQF (SQF practitioner a plus)
- Willingness to roll up your sleeves to get the job done
- Highest standard of integrity
- Comfort with a fast-paced work environment
- Very strong organizational skills
- Desire to learn more, and collaborate with a world-class team of colleagues
- Bilingual English and Spanish strongly preferred
- Willingness to work for long stretches of time on a refrigerated production floor
- Must be able to bend and comfortably lift up to 40 pounds
In Your Favor
- Love of food
- Experience with young brands or products/vegetables
Additional Info
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Healthcare, 401K, and other benefits
- Generous vacation policy
- Based in Hackensack, NJ
- All the specialty veggies you can eat!
