Advisor – Food Safety & Quality (Retail Packaging)
Full Time • BELLEVUE
Benefits:
- Competitive salary
- Opportunity for advancement
- Training & development
Role: Advisor – Food Safety & Quality (Retail Packaging)
Location: Seattle, WA (Onsite 4 days/week)
Experience: 3–5 years
Experience: 3–5 years
Overview
We are seeking a Food Safety & Quality Advisor with hands-on experience in packaging materials and supplier quality to support a high-visibility retail packaging program. This role partners with packaging engineering, supplier quality, and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the safety, compliance, and quality of retail-facing packaging products.
This position is ideal for professionals with experience in packaging engineering, supplier quality, food safety, or materials science, particularly within consumer products, food & beverage, or retail packaging environments.
Key Benefits
- Work on a high-impact retail packaging program with broad cross-functional visibility
- Exposure to diverse single-use packaging materials and safety/compliance programs
- Opportunity to influence supplier quality outcomes and packaging standards
What You’ll Do
- Partner closely with packaging engineering and quality stakeholders to support packaging safety and quality initiatives.
- Drive compliance tracking and ensure documentation aligns with product safety and quality requirements.
- Apply in-depth technical expertise to testing, supplier assessments, and product evaluations across single-use packaging materials, including:
poly-coated paperboard (hot cups), polypropylene (PP) cups/lids, PLA, PHA, molded pulp, corrugate, containerboard, utensils, and related items. - Proactively analyze quality signals and inputs, including metrics, audit results, field feedback, and regulator inputs.
- Identify trends, lead investigations, and drive resolution of packaging-related concerns raised by regulators, retail operations, and internal partner teams.
- Interface with and influence suppliers and cross-functional teams (including international partners) to deliver results in demanding timelines.
- Serve as a product safety and quality system SME for retail food packaging in support of new initiatives and operating practices.
Required Qualifications
- 3–5 years experience in packaging/materials science with emphasis on plastics, pulp, and paper.
- 3–5 years experience developing/implementing quality programs, product standards, supplier/manufacturer quality systems, and/or product quality auditing (materials-focused).
- Progressive experience managing and reviewing documentation required to comply with product safety and quality expectations.
- Working knowledge of Quality Management Systems and standards such as HACCP, GMPs, ISO, GFSI, BRC (and general Food Safety & Quality requirements).
- Strong communication skills (written and verbal): ability to summarize clearly, speak concisely, and break down complex issues into actionable steps.
- Ability to ramp up quickly, adapt to change, and operate with agility in a fast-moving environment.
Tools / Systems
- Microsoft Office Suite
- Smartsheet
- ServiceNow
- Quality Management System tools/knowledge
Nice to Have
- Prior experience supporting retail packaging programs or supplier quality programs in fast-paced environments.
Not a Fit If
- Frequent job changes without completing contracts/assignments
- Poor resume formatting, noticeable typos, or missing required core skills
Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!
Compensation: $30.00 - $32.00 per hour
AES is a premier technology consulting company that brings together businesses and talent to deliver the most innovative technology solutions that create the most positive impact to society.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.
In the last 20 years, we have developed innovative best-in-class technology solutions to the world’s forward-thinking companies on four key service areas:
- Customer Experience: engaging customers with differentiating digital experiences to sustain
business relevance
- Employee Experience: enabling employees to learn, collaborate, and grow to sustain business
performance
- Business Solutions: transforming and optimizing business operations to sustain business resilience
- Emerging Technology: exploring and adopting emerging technology to transform business model
Our team ensures that your favorite coffee shop has the right amount of people serving you at any given time. Our team ensures that the governance board of a global company has the right ESG insights to make the most sensible actions for the world. The list goes on and on. At the core of
what we do is creating the future that is right for everyone, with the right technology, and with the right talent.
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