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# FSQA Lead

- **Company:** TRIDENT SEAFOODS
- **Location:** Anacortes, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $78,874.0 - $118,331.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Document-Oriented Databases, Test Data, Performance Monitor
- **Published:** September 11, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.com/job/us920b8051ebb8c0af73f8dc25a3fdae8e/eaa

## About the Role

* A minimum of 2 years of experience in Food Safety Quality Assurance
 * HS Diploma or equivalent

Preferred Education & Experiences:

 * HAACP Certification
 * Seafood Industry specific experience
 * Leadership experience

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities (KSAs):

 * Ability to apply proper acceptance/rejection criteria and marks items with details such as grade and acceptance or rejection status
 * Knowledge of requirements for auditing purposes
 * Strong ability to Communicates significant issues or developments identified during quality assurance activities and provides recommended process improvements to Production/FSQA Management
 * Ability to communicate involvement and results of quality assurance activities to other departments
 * Working knowledge of company, government and industry quality assurance codes and standards

Work environment:
While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly exposed to moving mechanical parts. The employee is frequently exposed to wet and/or humid conditions and extreme cold. The employee is occasionally exposed to high, precarious places; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals; outside weather conditions; risk of electrical shock and vibration. The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Work Ability Requirements:
Ability to work around a production line with machinery and moving parts.

## Description

The Food Safety Quality Assurance Lead (FSQA) leads and conducts activities of the FSQA Technicians responsible for the quality assurance of production processes, materials, and products by performing the following duties:
Essential Functions:

 * Responsible for overseeing the FSQA staff on the production line
 * Assist FSQA technicians with operational reports and complete required paperwork (daily process documentation, questions about checks, etc.)
 * Monitor performance of FSQA technicians and provide assessment to FSQA supervisor.
 * Monitor employees (as time permits with running a line) to make sure that checks are being done in a timely manner and all hand/foot dips are being done
 * Conduct standardized tests on products and materials to ensure compliance with standards and regulations regarding factors such as color, weight, dimension, texture
 * Review purchased products or components and provides input to the decision of whether to accept the product and future purchases from the vendor
 * Document data obtained during all quality assurance activities, consistent with HACCP standards and company policies and procedures
 * Record test data such as weights, temperatures, moisture content, qualities and quantities inspected or graded


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