Director, Food Safety + Quality Assurance

About Daily Harvest 

At Daily Harvest we take care of food, so food can take care of you. We're committed to helping you nourish your body while taking care of the planet. How? By making it easy to eat more real, unrefined and sustainably sourced fruits and vegetables every day.  Our team is collaborative, driven, and future-thinking.  We're constantly learning, experimenting, and iterating, and celebrate failure just as much as success. We take risks, try new things, and we get things done. We love adaptogens and cruciferous vegetables but never say no to cake. Everything we do, we do in the service of our community.

Position Overview

Daily Harvest is looking for a Director, Food Safety & Quality Assurance to join our Innovation + Operations team. The Innovation + Operations team operationalizes the Daily Harvest mission from conception to delivery. We ideate and bring our food to life. We source ingredients and build supply chains, we create sustainable packaging solutions, ensure food safety, and instill production capabilities that benefit our customers, our partners, and our planet. All of this is done to ensure on-time deliveries and a perfect experience for our customers.

The Daily Harvest Director of FSQA will lead aspects of food safety and quality assurance throughout the Daily Harvest supply chain.   This position will oversee a team of food safety and quality professionals charged with ensuring high standards in the following key area (1) supplier approval and supplier compliance (2) Quality control of raw materials and finished goods  (3) GFSI compliance at all manufacturing and fulfillment locations (4) Driving continuous improvement throughout the supply chain.  

We are looking for someone with proven leadership experience in Quality and Food Safety systems, possesses strong organizational and technical skills, and thrives in a fast-paced consumer-centric organization. If you are self-motivated, results-oriented, and have a passion for team building, we would love to hear from you.  Accountability, integrity, attention to detail, the ability to prioritize multiple tasks, and being able to work independently are required for this position. This is an exceptional opportunity for the right candidate that is interested in working at a groundbreaking direct to consumer business expanding retail sales channels.

What you’ll do:

• Manage and continue refine all Quality and Food Safety systems at Daily Harvest. 
• Lead a team of FSQA professionals by setting clear goals, priorities and accountability. 
• Own all food safety and quality related relationships with internal and external partners. 
• Lead all FSQA risk assessment activities in support of product innovation and optimization. 
• Ensure compliance with all GFSI, FDA, USDA and state/local food safety regulations. 
• Outline validation and verification activities for RTE products and processes. 
• Build and oversee the budget of the Food Safety and Quality Assurance functional area. 
• Oversee the QC testing program for all raw materials and finished goods.
• Stay current on developments in Food Safety regulations and guidances. 
• Manage the teams responsible for auditing manufacturing locations and raw material suppliers. 
• Promote a team culture focused cross-functional collaboration to ensure excellence in FSQA. 
• Provide high level summaries and key recommendation and any issues related to FSQA. 
• Lead all activities related to product traceability. 
• Support commercialization activities to ensure successful product launches. 
• Routinely audit internal systems to ensure program compliance. 

Who you are:

• 10+ years of technical food safety experience required. Includes knowledge of food product development, food safety, quality assurance, food manufacturing and microbiology.
• Prove leadership in FSQA functional areas. Bachelor of Science (B.S.) food science, microbiology, chemistry or a related area.  
• Strong understanding of HACCP and Preventative Controls. 
• PCQI certification 
• Understanding of manufacturing and supply chain key performance indicators.
• Knowledge of FDA and FSMA regulations as they relate to ready-to-eat foods.
• Experience in quality assurance; areas of experience include HACCP, CCP, GMP’s, hygienic design/zoning, GFSI
• Ability to read and understand legal documents.
• Ability to conduct food safety risk assessments and identify process controls to address risks. 
• Strong analytical skills, and the ability to present meaningful data in routine reports. 
• Must be able to function independently & travel as necessary. 
• Ability to distill large volumes of disparate informa