Quality Assurance Technician

Since 1918, Seattle Fish Co. has supplied the highest quality seafood available in the world to restaurants, hotels, caterers, and grocers throughout Denver and the Rocky Mountain area. As the region’s largest supplier of fresh fish, we’re proud to provide our community with an unparalleled selection of seafood that showcases the same passionate dedication to personal service that this multigenerational family company has fostered for over a century.

Seattle Fish is proud to expand its premium protein options by acquiring Lombardi Brothers Meats. Lombardi Brothers Meats is dedicated to providing the highest quality product, delivered with world class service, throughout Colorado and the surrounding states consistently since 1947.

The role of the Quality Assurance Technician will include developing, implementing, and maintaining the Food Safety and Quality Culture, enforcing GMPs, SOPs, PPE, HACCP and SSOPs. He/she will need to have manufacturing experience. Being bilingual is a plus (not required). Being able to manage multiple priorities simultaneously. Must be an excellent communicator as speaking with all members of the company is necessary, ability to review and write procedures. Machining experience is very helpful.

Reports to: Food Safety Quality Assurance Manager

Shift: 10a-12p start time

Schedule: Must be flexible to work weekends

Location: Denver, CO

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Leading and training our production teams in seafood and meat quality, food safety, cleaning/ sanitation goals and expectations.
• Inspection of the receiving process to check incoming product quality, daily revision for best by dates of product in storage, daily reports to key members of the team
• Review improvement opportunities and implement plans when necessary; root cause evaluations, coaching/discipline, training efforts, process improvements, CAPA closures, record keeping, etc.
• Training new hires as well as seasoned employees in food quality standards, company, customer specifications, and food safety processes.
• Lead the weekly Quality Meeting
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing situations and multitask on several issues at once
• Acts as a point of contact for all quality issues.
• Review customer product returns and work toward validating, reducing, and eliminating with the teams involved in this process
• Back up to the Food Safety QA Manger, following through on all food safety duties.
• Review SOPs and SSOPs to make sure these documents are up to date
• Review and update specification sheets as needed
• Daily quality checks on the production floor
• Communicate clearly with production, maintenance, receiving, and warehouse, procurement, sales and applicable teams
• Monitor and enforce adherence to GMPs, HACCP, and SSOPs
• Maintain clean, organized workspaces aligned with food safety standards
• Conduct equipment swab tests to confirm cleanliness of equipment
• Conduct calibration of production equipment at appropriate frequency
• Coordinate communication between manufacturing associates and QA personnel
• Conduct environmental testing for pathogens
• Other duties may be assigned

• Minimum 2 years’ experience in food production and bachelor’s degree in related field is a plus
• Experience with quality methodologies such as Internal Auditing, Corrective & Preventive Action and Problem-Solving Disciplines
• Supervisory experience/skills are essential
• Knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures in an industrial environment including SQF, HACCP, GMP and SSOP
• Experience with implementing and documenting quality systems in a manufacturing setting
• Solid Computer skills
• Excellent communication skills
• Bilingual in Spanish is a plus
• Maintain a clean and organized work area.
• Work within established safe work practices, policies and procedures.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, teamwork, and respect for all team members
• Safety mindset
• Flexible/adaptable – ability to work overtime as needed
• Must reside in the Denver area as this position is ineligible for relocation

Working Conditions/Physical Activity

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to;

• Stand on your feet for at least 8-hour shifts and walk regularly
• Maneuver throughout the production floor/process areas that could include narrow, irregular, and aisles
• Regularly lift and/or push/pull up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or push/pull up to 100 pounds
• Frequently walk, bend, stoop, crouch, squat, kneel, and twist
• Frequently use hands/fingers to grasp and pinch
• Frequently reach below waist, above waist, and above shoulders with arms and hands
• Verbal communication
• Ability to hear speech and mechanical sounds (machine alerts, safety alerts, quality alerts)
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, depth perception, ability to adjust focus and ability to see colors
• Tolerate cold, wet environment

Seattle Fish Co. believes each employee makes a signification contribution to the company's success. The contribution should not be limited by the assigned responsibilities. Therefore, this job description is designed to outline the responsibilities but not limited to such responsibilities. Nothing in this job description restricts management’s right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities to this job at any time.

Benefits:

Seattle Fish offers a comprehensive benefit packaging including:

• Medical insurance

• Dental and vision insurance

• Company paid life insurance

• Company paid long-term and short-term disability

• 401k retirement plan

• Discount pricing on seafood, meat, and gourmet products

Our Commitment:

We believe every employee has the right to work in an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful discrimination. Consistent with applicable laws, Seattle Fish Company makes all decisions involving any aspect of the employment relationship without regard to race, color, sex, age, sexual orientation, marital status, national origin, citizenship, the presence of any physical or mental disability of someone otherwise qualified, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or characteristic protected by local, state, or federal law. Discrimination and/or harassment based on any of those factors are inconsistent with our philosophy of doing business and will not be tolerated. This policy of non-discrimination applies to all aspects application procedures, hiring, advancement, transfers, reductions in force, discharge, compensation, training, or other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.