Food Safety Quality Engineer

 

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Ascendion is an AI-native software engineering disruptor helping businesses innovate faster, smarter, and with greater impact. We partner with enterprise clients across North America, the UK, Europe, and APAC to solve complex challenges in data, experience design, software product engineering, and workforce transformation. Powered by expert engineers, thousands of AI agents, and our Engineering to the Power of AI (EngineeringAI) method, we deliver measurable outcomes that build trust, unlock value, and accelerate growth.

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• Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
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About Ascendion

Ascendion is a full-service digital engineering solutions company. We make and manage software platforms and products that power growth and deliver captivating experiences to consumers and employees. Our engineering, cloud, data, experience design, and talent solution capabilities accelerate transformation and impact for enterprise clients. Headquartered in New Jersey, our workforce of 6,000+ Ascenders delivers solutions from around the globe. Ascendion is built differently to engineer the next.

Ascendion | Engineering to elevate life

We have a culture built on opportunity, inclusion, and a spirit of partnership. Come, change the world with us:

• Build the coolest tech for world’s leading brands
• Solve complex problems - and learn new skills
• Experience the power of transforming digital engineering for Fortune 500 clients
• Master your craft with leading training programs and hands-on experience

Experience a community of change makers!

Join a culture of high-performing innovators with endless ideas and a passion for tech. Our culture is the fabric of our company, and it is what makes us unique and diverse. The way we share ideas, learning, experiences, successes, and joy allows everyone to be their best at Ascendion.

About the Role:

Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior - Innovation FSQ (Retail Packaging)

Location: Seattle, WA (Hybrid - 4 Days Onsite)
Schedule: Full-Time, 40 Hours/Week

About the Role

We are seeking Product Safety & Quality Advisor Senior to support innovative retail packaging initiatives through a product safety and quality lens. In this role, you will partner closely with R&D, Packaging Development, Innovation, and Supplier Quality teams to ensure new packaging materials, designs, and technologies meet quality, food safety, and regulatory requirements before commercialization.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence packaging innovation while ensuring product safety, supplier readiness, and manufacturing excellence across the development lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Support packaging innovation projects by identifying product safety, quality, and manufacturing risks early in the development process.
• Lead supplier onboarding, qualification, and manufacturing site readiness activities for new packaging programs.
• Conduct supplier assessments, audits, and risk evaluations to ensure compliance with food safety, GMP, and packaging quality standards.
• Partner with Packaging Development and R&D teams to establish material, process, and performance qualification requirements.
• Provide quality oversight during pilot runs, scale-up activities, and first production builds.
• Evaluate manufacturing process capability, including Cp/Cpk analysis, validation plans, and control strategies.
• Maintain Product Safety Review (PSR) documentation and ensure traceability throughout innovation projects.
• Collaborate with supplier Food Safety & Quality teams to address quality concerns and support successful product launches.
• Serve as a trusted advisor balancing innovation speed with product safety, quality, and customer trust.

Required Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in Supplier Quality, Product Quality, Packaging Quality, Food Safety, or Manufacturing Quality.
• Experience developing and implementing quality programs, supplier quality systems, or product quality auditing processes.
• Knowledge of Quality Management Systems (QMS), including:
• HACCP
• GMP
• ISO Standards
• GFSI
• BRC Standards
• Experience supporting product safety and quality compliance programs.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and project coordination abilities.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with retail packaging, food-contact packaging, or consumer packaging products.

Knowledge of:

• Disposable cups and lids
• Paper packaging
• Plastic packaging
• Compostable fiber packaging
• Non-food-contact packaging
• Experience working with packaging suppliers and manufacturing partners.
• Experience supporting commercialization, pilot production, or new product introduction activities.

Preferred Backgrounds

• Packaging Quality Engineer
• Supplier Quality Engineer
• Product Safety Specialist
• Food Safety & Quality Engineer
• Packaging Development
• Quality Engineer
• Supplier Development Engineer (Packaging)

If you are passionate about mechanical design, manufacturing innovation, automation, and developing solutions that directly impact production quality and efficiency, we encourage you to apply.

Salary Range:  The salary for this position is between $95,000-$100,000 annually. Factors which may affect pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Benefits: The Company offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements: [medical insurance] [dental insurance] [vision insurance] [401(k) retirement plan] [long-term disability insurance] [short-term disability insurance] [personal days accrued each calendar year. The Paid time off benefits meet the paid sick and safe time laws that pertains to the City/ State] [12-15 days of paid vacation time] [6-8 weeks of paid parental leave after a year of service] [9 paid holidays and 2 floating holidays per calendar year] [Ascendion Learning Management System] [Tuition Reimbursement Program]

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