Advisor Food Safety & Quality

Description

You can work with industry experts, cross-functional teams, and an outstanding supply base to drive projects from start to finish. At the same time, you’ll be continuing a legacy of world class product safety and quality performance by managing quality signals, product incidents, and supply base management on a daily basis.

Team culture/work environment:

• Under food safety quality umbrella
• Working with Erin’s team (supplier food safety quality)
• Focusing on retail packaging that goes to the customer (cups/lids/etc)
• A little more analysis, digging into complaints and customer responses (looking for someone data focused)
• Specification management, comfortable reviewing specs and CAD drawings
• Comfortable working with packaging engineering and QA Partners

Key projects:

• Specification Management: Liaison between packaging engineering team and the new system (Enterprise Spec Management System)
• Assessment of suppliers for the packaging

Daily Responsibilities:

• Newer role to Starbucks
• Will work with packaging engineer, ideally has a background with packaging
• Compliance Tracking
• Apply in-depth technical knowledge to projects and gather insights (i.e., testing, supplier and product assessment) across a wide variety of single-use packaging materials/items including but not limited to: poly-coated paperboard (hot cups), polypropylene PP (cups and lids), polylactic acid PLA, poly-hydroxyalkanoic acids PHA, molded pulp, corrugate, containerboard, utensils, etc.
• Proactively analyze product and supplier quality signals, metrics, audit data, customer feedback, regulator, and workgroup input.
• Identify trends and lead investigation and resolution of packaging related concerns from regulators, retail stores, field QA partners or internal and external customers.
• Interface and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams, including internationally based partners, to deliver results within demanding timelines.
• Acts as a Retail Food Packaging Product Safety and Quality system expert in the development of new packaging initiatives or operating practices.

Interaction level with team:

• Highly interactive, will partner with varying partner teams

Additional Skills & Qualifications

Technology requirements:

• Microsoft Office Suite
• Smartsheet
• ServiceNow
• Quality Management System knowledge

Years experience:

• 3-5 years of experience

Required background:

• Strong packaging and material science background with emphasis in plastics, pulp, and paper (3-5 years)
• Experience developing and implementing quality programs and product standards or manufacturer and supplier quality system and product quality auditing with an emphasis in materials (3-5 years)
• Progressive experience managing the development and review of information required to comply with product safety and quality (3-5 years)
• Quality Management System knowledge including HACCP, GMPs, ISO or GFSI and BRC complaint standards. Basic understanding of Food Safety and Quality GFSI requirements.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Similar experience with their previous roles

This is a Contract position based out of Seattle, WA.

The pay range for this position is $26.00 - $30.00/hr.

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)

This is a hybrid position in Seattle,WA.

This position is anticipated to close on Feb 18, 2026.

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 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

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.

If you would like to request a reasonable accommodation, such as the modification or adjustment of the job application process or interviewing due to a disability, please email actalentaccommodation@actalentservices.com for other accommodation options.

Salary : $26 - $30