Sr. Regulatory Specialist

Regulatory Specialist

Help Shape the Future of Food Safety, Quality & Compliance

Are you passionate about food safety, regulatory affairs, and ensuring products meet the highest standards of quality and compliance? Join a growing specialty ingredients manufacturer where your expertise will directly support products used by leading food, retail, foodservice, and private-label brands across the country.

What You'll Do

As a Regulatory Specialist, you'll serve as a trusted resource for regulatory compliance and food safety initiatives across the organization. Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage supplier and ingredient approval programs to ensure compliance with customer, regulatory, and company requirements.

• Review, maintain, and organize supplier documentation within electronic document management systems.

• Support customer requests by preparing and maintaining regulatory, technical, and compliance documentation.

• Coordinate change control activities involving product formulations, specifications, labels, and regulatory records.

• Maintain regulatory programs and records to ensure audit readiness and ongoing compliance.

• Partner with R&D, Quality, Operations, and Sales teams to support product launches, product enhancements, and process improvements.

• Assist with compliance initiatives related to SQF, BRC, cGMPs, food safety, and food defense programs.

• Support traceability programs and help ensure accurate ingredient and finished product tracking.

• Interpret and apply federal, state, international, and customer-specific regulatory requirements.

• Identify opportunities to streamline regulatory processes, improve documentation systems, and enhance compliance programs.

• Participate in cross-functional projects that improve food safety, product quality, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

Required Qualifications

• High School Diploma required; Bachelor's degree in Food Science, Biology, Chemistry, Regulatory Affairs, or a related field preferred.

• 1-3 years of experience within food manufacturing, medical device, pharmaceutical, or another regulated industry.

• Experience maintaining regulatory, technical, or compliance documentation.

Why Candidates Love This Opportunity

This role offers a unique opportunity to build a well-rounded career in regulatory affairs while working closely with food scientists, quality professionals, and manufacturing leaders. You'll gain valuable experience supporting industry-recognized food safety programs, customer compliance requirements, supplier qualification efforts, and product lifecycle activities, making it an excellent next step for professionals looking to grow within the food, ingredients, quality, or regulatory fields.

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Chaska, MN.

Pay and Benefits

The pay range for this position is $25.00 - $32.00/hr.

Individual compensation offered for this position within this range will depend on many factors, including qualifications, skills, relevant experience, job knowledge, geographic location, internal equity, and other pertinent job-related factors.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: Medical, dental & vision Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital 401(k) Retirement Plan Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) Short and long-term disability Health Spending Account (HSA) Transportation benefits Employee Assistance Program Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)

Job Type & Location

This is a Contract to Hire position based out of Chaska, MN.

Application Deadline

This position is anticipated to close on Oct 30, 2026.

Workplace Type

This is a fully onsite position in Chaska,MN.

About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 20,000 consultants and 5,000 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500. We are proud to be an Engineering News-Record (ENR) Top 500 Design Firm for our engineering design services and a ClearlyRated Best of Staffing® winner for both client and talent service.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI): We may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to support parts of our hiring process, including sourcing, screening, and evaluating candidates. AI helps assess applications and qualifications, but final decisions are made by our hiring team. By applying, you acknowledge and agree that your application may be reviewed using AI tools.