FSQA Analyst

This role plays a critical part in the plant's successful implementation of digital tools that impact food safety, quality, product, and ingredient traceability. The FSQA Analyst represents the company's direction for a paperless environment, analyzing requirements, creating, and maintaining system components, defining data governance systems, and linking FSQA programs and policies in the Plant Management Platform System and similar platforms.

• Champion the path to a paperless environment and develop quality and food safety SOPs and governance policies surrounding data collection.
• Maintain document control within the safety chain, updating existing and approving new forms.
• Complete training with team members as part of the Plant Management Platform system rollout.
• Lead data mining, analyze, and interpret data in large and complex data sets by applying statistical methods.
• Validate and troubleshoot data inconsistencies found in food safety reports aligned with OSI policies.
• Strive for data integrity and perform data cleanup activities.
• Analyze process validation monitoring data and product specifications to ensure corporate and customer expectations are met.
• Lead dashboard creation and maintain food safety and quality-focused dashboards.
• Investigate customer complaints as required, trend, and summarize food safety customer complaints on a weekly basis; provide support for root cause analysis as needed.
• Contribute to innovation, troubleshooting, and brainstorming ideas in a team environment.
• Coordinate with the IT department in the continued development of systems used.
• Maintain plant e-sarf, SharePoint, and Advantage electronic systems.
• Prepare status update reports on progress to achieving goals.
• Assist with plant HACCP and FSQA process validations.

• 1-3 years of experience in a related field is preferred.
• Minimum 1 year of food manufacturing plant experience in Quality Assurance required.
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, verbally and in writing, with all levels within the organization and with external vendors.
• Working knowledge of quality assurance, food safety, food manufacturing processes, technologies, or other relevant areas of responsibility.
• Strong relationship skills necessary to achieve successful partnerships and collaborations, both internally and externally, with diverse workgroups.
• Relevant experience with government regulatory requirements in food processing.
• Excellent proficiency in all Microsoft Office Suite Products.

BA/BS or equivalent is required. In Food Science, Statistics/CI.